All Things Old Are New Again

• by GeekMan • In Breaking News •   15

I’m back.

There are still a few problems that I haven’t worked out yet, the most glaring of which is that this site now looks like crap on a Mac, but on the whole I’m pretty happy with my new design. Why don’t you take a quick look around and tell me about all the bugs I’m sure you’ll find in my horrendous code.

Hey, I’m a designer. Not a hacker.

Anywaste, since my hacking skills are so pathetically stunted that fourth graders regularily mock me as I walk the streets in my blue silk bathrobe while reading “HTML For Schmucks” and mumbling to myself, I’d like to take this opportunity to beg for some help. If anyone out there is willing to help me out, I’d really appreciate it.

My problems are twofold.

The first, and most important problem, is that I can’t seem to get this page to render correctly on the Mac. I don’t know why because as far as I can tell it looks fine to everyone on a PC. The way it’s supposed to look is like this;

The problem is that the top blue bar seems to be missing when viewed on a Mac and the little corner icons of my side bar aren’t in their proper place. They’re coming in one line below making everything ugly.

The second problem is not so big. If you’re using IE 5.5 or above, then the scroll bar should be a light grey like the background of my content boxes. But on the main page it isn’t, even though if you look at my “About” page it is grey. And before you ask, yes the code is EXACTLY the same on the About page and my home page.

So, to sum up; “Won’t someone help a brother out?”

*** Update: Another problem is that one can no longer highlight text properly. Damn, I suck at coding. ***

15 Comments

  1. I’m on a mac running OS 10.2.6/Safari 1.0 (v85) and everything looks as it should based on the screenshot.

    Oh, and welcome back

  2. Because I have to leave for school in five minutes, I can only suggest one thing. Put all your css in a file called “.css” instead of using the css on every page. I had the same problem with my website until I did that. Hope it helps

  3. Using a Mac, on Safari your site look good, only one thing that’s not working, is your right side boxes. The icon your using are like you said, one line below the first. Making the left corner not round like it should. Everything else is ok..!

  4. I would put the style tags containing your scrollbar code RIGHT after your title tags on the main page. There are a lot of calls happening in your head tags before it gets to the scrollbars, though this isn’t so on the about page.

  5. Andy:
    Are the right side boxes correct, because Bernard seems to be using the same browser and OS but he’s seeing them incorrectly. It would be REALLY strange if one person saw one thing and another saw something else if you’re both using the same software!

    Steve:
    It is in a seperate css file.

    Bernard:
    Thank you.

    Crystal:
    Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it didn’t seem to do anything.

  6. Looks fine on IE6 on a PC, but I see what you mean about the scroll bar. Why isn’t that bit of style in your CSS file instead of on each page? Don’t know if that would help, but it’s worth a shot.

  10. Just wanted to add… I’ve checked your site again, but this time with IE 5 and Mozilla on my Mac in OSX, same problem in all of them. They dont use the same rendering engin… You’ve got a nice problem on your hand! ;o)

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  14. On Opera 7 for Linux, the corner icons are one line below. On Konqueror and Mozilla (Linux), they’re more like 3 lines below.

    Adding “position: absolute;” to “navimage” and getting rid of the “p” tags in front of the images fixes the problem in all three browsers.

    No idea what that does to IE or Mac though. :)

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