1) The image links were broken in IE. Ironically, if I turned on the link borders, the borders themselves were linked but the center was empty. So to fill in the gaps and provide a compromise for both systems, I gave the href tag something to munch by placing transparent gifs of appropriate size inside. Problem solved. Wanted to do it without resorting to that, but it works. Feels like cheating tho.
2) Had to make several font-altering tags into div tags to get them to take in IE. Firefox still likes them though, so whatever.
3) Filled in white space that suddenly and mysteriously appeared at the bottom of the page by giving the footer a height attribute.
4) The links around the author images refused to hold link color and hover attributes no matter WHAT I did. They just appeared as the nauseating default 1994-blue. Solved that one by applying a special class defining border and link attributes to images and slipping it into their image tags.
5) Obviously, I swapped the nav bar to the left side and took out the vertical line. Let me know if you like it better over the other way for any particular reason.
6) I stepped up the quality of the header image and added some more dark snowflakes in the background. Tell me if it takes too long to load-- but I probably won't change anything.
7) I made a snowflake icon that should appear in address bars and tabs of browsers that support such things.
8) Updated the about page to reflect template changes.
9) Ran the code through the W3C CSS Validator and took out all the wacky bits of style.
10) It validates. WOOHOO!
And that's it. Can it please be bedtime now? I'm tie-tie.
Posted on December 12, 2006 @ 10:58 PM | 10 comments
Comments:
Damn, you're good.
By 
Lazy Lightning, at
7:38 AM, December 13, 2006
I never would have spent so much time catering to the piece of s*** that is IE; I would have stopped at the IE detection warning and called it a day, lols. Good work mangling with it, although it looks the same to me, minus the formatting changes of course.
By Rachel, at
8:35 AM, December 13, 2006
Also, why you no have RSS? Plz RSS kthx! :)
By Rachel, at
8:49 AM, December 13, 2006
Brava!
By 
inkandpen, at
9:41 AM, December 13, 2006
I fixed it cos it drive me totally nuts imagining people looking at my page all messed up and thinking I made it that way. LOL. Plus, despite how much I hate IE, about 80%+ of people still use it and I don't want my blog to look crappy for that many people. :D
Rachel-- THere's a link to the RSS feed in the left sidebar near the top of the buttons. :) It's just /atom.xml if you're interested.
By Kat, at
10:14 AM, December 13, 2006
Ohay I found it, thx! Now you can finally be in my RSS'd list, wewt.
Shame on those who still use IE. Firefox = more secure, less shitty.
By Rachel, at
1:05 PM, December 13, 2006
ok...off topic question here...I know nothing about "gallery", except that you, Lazy Lightning, and Rachmicah all use it...and I like it. Is there any way I can use it without having my own domain like you all do? Could I host it on geocities or something like that? I don't really understand how it works. Please help. thx.
By sometrouble, at
1:08 PM, December 15, 2006
....
All that nerdy computer talk makes me tingle in all sorts of places
....
Really though, I envy your l33t skillz. That's hot.
By Titania, at
12:12 AM, December 16, 2006
Titania: don't you owe Paris Hilton some royalties for saying: "that's hawt"? I heard awhile back that she tried to patent that phrase, the dumb bitch. My royalties to her would be a nice, big *slap*.
By Rachel, at
4:16 PM, December 17, 2006
yay my IE links work!
hey after the holidays are we going to get to enjoy more wedding-planning-related posts and photos??
By , at
8:42 PM, December 17, 2006
