Outside of a Dog: [2005] Site relaunch & implementation notes

Skwid

Skwid wrote on September 27, 2005 at 10:29 AM:

Congrats on the redesign. If you hadn't said something, I probably wouldn't have noticed, which is a sign of a job well done, IMNSHO.

Kate

Kate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 10:32 AM:

Skwid: thanks, I think. =>

David Tate

David Tate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 10:58 AM:

Love the new format, with one tiny quibble: on the main page, the sidebar of recent comment links is waaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of long scroll.

Otherwise, very nice.

Kate

Kate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 11:21 AM:

David: re format: I think I've reproduced the bug, it's in IE 6, yes?

Here's the deal: in CSS, I told the recent comments list to be a certain width, so that on short pages, they wouldn't stretch across the page below the right-side content, because I thought that looked ugly. However, the sidebar already has a width specified, and IE apparently can't deal with a width inside a width. Or something.

The current fix is changing it to a max-width CSS property; IE apparently doesn't recognize this, so the weird pushing-down doesn't happen, at the expense of the comments not staying nicely within their sidebar on short pages. (Opera and Netscape, which is what I can test it on at the moment, seem to recognize the CSS fine.)

If anyone else has a more elegant solution, do let me know.

Kate

Kate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 11:58 AM:

Re: recent comments sidebar--while I'm fiddling with this, which would people prefer, the last ten *comments* or the last ten *posts* with comments?

Elaine

Elaine wrote on October 4, 2005 at 9:17 AM:

Looks great.