I'm round a friends house at the moment and have logged onto his PC. He only has IE where as I use Firefox. I notice that Firefox renders the blog perfectly but it's a mess in IE. The main problem is that the menu/sidebar is placed at the bottom of the page. I have had a look at the template and cannot see any problems. Does anyone else who uses Blogger have any ideas?
I've also noticed that the home page of the main site is also rendered horribly with the text for some reason being orange which is the colour of the H1 and H2 tags and not the standard text. Again it renders as it should in any gecko based browser but in IE! Oh well IE and CSS eh?
Should I just abandon IE users all altogether when it comes to design (and fails to adhere to Web Consortium standards) or should I work on a fixing the front page as well?
What do you think?
I've also noticed that the home page of the main site is also rendered horribly with the text for some reason being orange which is the colour of the H1 and H2 tags and not the standard text. Again it renders as it should in any gecko based browser but in IE! Oh well IE and CSS eh?
Should I just abandon IE users all altogether when it comes to design (and fails to adhere to Web Consortium standards) or should I work on a fixing the front page as well?
What do you think?
I'm a firefox user and I recently looked at my page on IE, its messed up as well. The sidebar on the bottom of the page is usually from a picture thats too big for the main post hanging over the sidebar so the sidebar goes to the bottom. That might work.
Looks good in Opera as well.
Don't abandon IE users, crud though it is they're still likely most of your users.
Chances are you have an unclosed tag somewhere in your source, probably a div tag.
vbfg.
Welcome to the world of web design.
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You should probably not abandon ALL i.e. users, just those using browsers previous to 6.0.
Most blogging software these days uses more or less pure CSS layouts, which can cause havoc with older browsers (and sometimes with newer browsers !). The "old" way of designing sites was to use tables and spacer gifs and other non-sense. i.e. 5.5 and earlier are real "sensitive" to CSS ... I have abondoned these kids all together, simply because I don't want to have to mess with getting my site to look good on these browsers.
So ... check the i.e. version ... if it is 6.0 then I'd suggest trying to figure out what's up.
Most people are using 6.0 by now I believe.
BTW, it's not just i.e. ... old version of Opera and Netscape don't always digest CSS designed sites very well either.
CSS is the way of the future however, and it is more fun designing this way that with all the "tricks and tom foolery" of the past ... So, I'd say you just have to cut these chaps w/ the old browsers loose.
i think the problem might be the refering webpages bit, the one from tofuhut is really long
I just fired up my dusty copy of MSIE 5.50 and you page looks absolutely fine. If I were you I'd check it on a number of different machines running MSIE, if that's possible, before you get too down hearted. There are many reason why a page won't display correctly, even in non-MSIE browsers and a couple have already been mentioned here. If you want to post screenshots of the offending pages together with the browsers details these people are running then I'd be happy to look into it, as I'm sure others here would. In the meantime I shouldn't worry too much It doesn't appear to be a wide spread issue with your site - just keep plugging Firefox :)