::Numine.com::

by Kat

Notice some changes? I tweaked the color scheme and added a new banner image to the header. I also improved the main site nav by adding a CSS navbar to the banner image. Like it? I stole it from Lazy Lightning's template. So instead of finding the goodies on the right, you'll find them up above. Where the goodies used to be is a photo of me. Huttah!

The only problem I've encountered is trying to switch the main page body over from tables to CSS. It's just a standard "2-column with header" CSS layout, but I CANNOT get it to cooperate. I can get all the containers aligned but I can't get background colors to set, or margins to work properly... which are both supposed to be simple things. GUH. Any CSS guru out there want to toss some code my way?

Posted on September 19, 2006 @ 5:56 PM | 8 comments

Comments:

I like the new look...nice work so far...I need to find time to play with mine a little more. Wish I could help you, but I only know what i've learned by trial and error...and lots of "view sourcing" other people's pages.

By Anonymous, at 7:58 AM, September 20, 2006

what background color are you having trouble with? the dark dark gray? change that by changing the "404040" to something else right near the top under the body style tag where it says "background-color". not sure if that is what you were having trouble with?

By Anonymous, at 8:05 AM, September 20, 2006

I'm having trouble with the white background in the main and secondary columns. The grey background sets fine, and will change if I change the hex #, but the white backgrounds, no matter what CSS I use "background:#FFFFFF" or "background-color:#FFFFFF" or whatever, won't set to white... they just appear transparent, so the whole thing is grey. My current code doesn't reflect what I was messing with in the CSS (I have that saved on my computer and was previewing it in blogger), but I did go through it pretty meticulously to see if anything would cause the column colors to be null... and I couldn't find anything. :(

By Kat, at 11:23 AM, September 20, 2006

ok...i figured something out...i'm gonna email you.

By Anonymous, at 12:15 PM, September 20, 2006

baah! looks cool but where's the section on cool wedding dresses, flowers, bridesmaid stuff, etc., etc., that you're considering? ;-)

By sabath, at 7:32 PM, September 20, 2006

hey there! i'm glad you commented on my blog! i had totally lost track of you a while back. first, congrats on your engagement!

second, the problem you're most likely having is that you have a DIV holding other DIVS that have floats on them correct? float:left; or float:right. but your DIV that's holding them has no float. float that DIV and then your background colors should show up. this is a total bug that i've run across but i figured out how to fix it from checking the code at alistapart.com because they do something very similar.

good luck!

By gleek, at 12:39 PM, September 21, 2006

Gleek: Thanks, that sounds like it might work! I'll give it a try. My column/header divs are all head inside a "wrap" div that isn't floated. :)

By Kat, at 1:31 PM, September 21, 2006

did you get the email i sent you?

By Anonymous, at 2:04 PM, September 21, 2006