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oh, jennaction, I think I’ve got a solution for you. Put the includes in a directory INSIDE your theme and name the directory “includes”. Then use this:
<?php include ('<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/includes/current.php'); ?>

Try this in your stylesheet:


.clearA {
overflow: hidden;
clear:both;
height:0;
margin:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0;
}


Then put this in your template. You might need to try it in a few places, but eventually it might help.

<br class="clearA" />

You might also wanna run your source code through the validator at http://validator.w3.org and it might show you a couple things that might be wanking your page. For starters you’re in quirks mode, no doctype. That’s throwing ALL browsers into tagsoup mode so it could be anything causing this.

Is this how you’re doing your includes?

<?php include ('leftcol.php'); ?>

If not, maybe you should post some code here, then we can tell you better what’s going on.

Looks fine in firefox and IE6. Did you fix it already?

You’re damn right Google analytics is slowing it (and every other site using it) down to a snail’s pace, which happens periodically to EVERY site that uses it. ANNOYING. It’s the best argument I know for not using it since stats don’t mean anything at all IF YOU PISS OFF YOUR VIEWERS and they simply click elsewhere.

Geez, anyone look at the WP Goog analytics lately? (providing you can even ACCESS them now) I wonder how pageviews per unique visitor plummet when this bulldoody happens . . .

Check the Plugin section of the docs, there’s a plugin for the google sitemap.

If you use the template home.php then this is easy. You simply make a new file and paste the sidebar code into it, then delete the call for the archive and then save this new file as sidebar2.php. Then, in your home.php, you replace the call for the sidebar with this:
<?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?>

That will give you a sidebar that is exclusive to your homepage and that omits the archive.

You’re welcome.