new intro page

Apr 08 2007

I need someone running Internet Explorer to check out the new lead-in page to the site, and let me know if anything is amiss. Just go to addisonrd.com. Thanks!

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7 responses so far

  1. Cliff
    on 09 Apr 2007 at 9:31 am

    IE 6: It’s not centered and the background of the two links is grey.

    IE 7: It’s not centered.

    In either case the links work right.

  2. michael lee
    on 09 Apr 2007 at 11:21 am

    thanks, cliff.

    Bah. I hate IE. Truly.

  3. Cliff
    on 09 Apr 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Michael,

    I got motivated to go learn something, so I pulled your front page down and started hacking away….

    I got some of the issues fixed, but there are a few left.

    1. the centering thing: added a wrapper div around box1:

    #wrapper {
    margin:0px;
    width:100%;
    text-align:center;
    }

    Turns out that IE doesn’t center by default, but it also misunderstands text centering and centers divs, too.

    Who knew?

    2. IE 6 handling of transparency in PNGs. There is a useful site here that describes how to fix this. Just grab the javascript file and stuff the the code to reference it and the problem goes away.

    3. Rollovers – Can’t get the image rollovers to work in any version of IE. Also, ‘email me’ does not have the line under it – ever – any version of IE.

    Enough mucking about for one day.

  4. michael lee
    on 09 Apr 2007 at 11:21 pm

    good stuff – thanks Cliff.

    I dug into redoing the front page for exactly that reason, to force myself to learn something new. I need an easier way to test things in different browsers though.

  5. Derek
    on 10 Apr 2007 at 5:09 pm

    The centering can also be fixed in ie6 by using a doctype that is full and valid.

    change:

    to:

  6. michael lee
    on 10 Apr 2007 at 5:25 pm

    Derek – you have to wrap it in a “code” tag, otherwise it gets swallowed up by the blog monster.


    #example {
    background: awesome;
    }

  7. Derek
    on 10 Apr 2007 at 5:33 pm

    I quit.

    change:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>

    to:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”
    “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>

    I would’ve editted that last comment but wp got a MySQL error when I tried.

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