That is a screenshot of the new theme that I have, from my desktop which is running Opera. I've tested this theme out in IE6, Safari, Opera and Firefox 3 RC2. In all of those, it looks fine with the text clearly readable in my opinion, but Pablo complained that that "black text on a brown background" is hard to read giving me reason to believe that for some people, the black text is spilling over to the brown on the side. I've not seen this, but I know how awful browsers can be at getting the same experience for everyone, so I'm asking you guys to click on that thumbnail, look at the screenshot, and tell me if that is how you are seeing my main page. Please leave feedback in the comments to let me know if there is some sort of deviation from this because I really like this look and want to make this style available on my themes blog.
That is a screenshot of the new theme that I have, from my desktop which is running Opera. I've tested this theme out in IE6, Safari, Opera and Firefox 3 RC2. In all of those, it looks fine with the text clearly readable in my opinion, but Pablo complained that that "black text on a brown background" is hard to read giving me reason to believe that for some people, the black text is spilling over to the brown on the side. I've not seen this, but I know how awful browsers can be at getting the same experience for everyone, so I'm asking you guys to click on that thumbnail, look at the screenshot, and tell me if that is how you are seeing my main page. Please leave feedback in the comments to let me know if there is some sort of deviation from this because I really like this look and want to make this style available on my themes blog.
I believe IE7 is having a problem reading the CSS for the white rectangle to cover the brown background color. Download IE7 and test it out. You will want to ensure that your coding for the style sheet is up to par with IE7 as I am sure the majority of your traffic will arrive via that browser in the next year or so.
j razz
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm186/jrazz1/Code_Monkey.jpg
Here you go.
j razz
It's working now.
j razz
Thanks. This only served to reinforce my bitter hatred of Internet Explorer. There is absolutely no reason why this should have happened. None. The background was set on an element that according to basic CSS rules should have been shown.
How does that saying go? Rules are made to be broken? :)
Glad you got it fixed. Looks nice by the way.
j razz
Although, I cannot see your tags or your bullet point items in IE7 or Firefox 2.
j razz
Well, I think I understand what you are asking, but I thought I would reiterate it and then explain what it is I see.
I think you are asking if the left side of the article and comment column looks like aged parchment bleeding into newer parchment (as if something was spilled, or as if it is a custom stationary).
In both the thumbnail and the blog page itself, I see the brownish bleed into the white, from the far left of the post and comment column to about 1/5 to 1/4 of the way toward the right side of the column. (Which, actually, I like)
As a fact, I have really been enjoying what you have been doing here. It is rather attractive and good, as per mho. I hope that helps? Oh, I am using Firefox, Win XP 2nd package, and... I like tea (which has nothing to do with this, but I ran out of other things).
Well, off with you then! Oh, right, your place. See you...
P.S. When I previewed my comment, the whole system slid over to the left AND the font decrease to a barely legible (small) setting so that reviewing my comment in my preferred manner (using the preview button) is untenable. Now, I hope that helps.
Still, I do like your page and work.
The white text of the tags on the beige background isn't easy to read, but other than that, everything looks fine.
Mike, it looks perfectly ok to me using Firefox 2 on Vista. I quite like this look btw..
Looks ok to me in Firefox but I think I'm late to the party anyway.
Thanks for the feedback, guys! I try to be different from a lot of software developers by giving others the benefit of the doubt that they're not cranks when they tell me tht something is broken :)
Were it not for Pablo, I would have probably gone merrily about my day without knowing that my style was broken in IE 7. Of course, I should probably drive up to Canuckistan and whack him upside the head for using IE 7 when there are so many good alternatives out now! (I kid ;) )
Those of you who are using IE on Windows might also want to try out the recent Opera 9.5 build. I've only been kicking its tires for a day now, but it's a pretty slick improvement on Opera.
Looks good!
Your theme seems to have disappeared completely.
I have a web console that acts as a file manager for my website. Apparently the genius who designed it thought that deleting an entire directory was a natural thing for a compression option to do after it has backed up the directory. Thanks for letting me know!