3 col theme for review please

  • I will only leave it up for a day or so,
    but here is a 3 col layout I have been working on. Its called Madness.

    And I would like some feedback please.

    I already have two issues:

    One is critical…. the divs are not wrapping correctly and throwing my sidebar down under the blog in Opera. In IE6 it looks great.

    The second which is not to important, but I cannot get the Title and description of the blog larger than the body font. So I disabled it.

    I would also like to disable the blue links around the images in my sidebar at some point.

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  • and the basics ?? https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

    Thread Starter Darcie

    (@darcie)

    Failed validation, 24 errors

    Better now, All the errors are inside my postings. To clean them up, I have to go in and re-edit every single one? Thanks for all your help Moshu and Adjustafish and Gadget.

    I learned something VERY IMPORTANT today, I was closing divs when I should not have been. When I want to wrap a div around the header, index and footer. I was placing the div in the index and closing it, should have been opened in the head and closed in the footer, correct?

    I would also like to now how to include my Wippersnappers php file into the sidebar.

    As far as the DOC stuff, I think it had alot to do with the div prob and the Wippersnappers opening inside the file itslef.

    should have been opened in the head and closed in the footer, correct?
    Probably, if you want everything to be included in it.
    Here is a very basic visual sketch of the structure of a theme.

    I took a closer look at the source and CSS. This layout will never work as intended. You’d be better off to take a working 3 column theme/layout and work from that one: modify it to your liking.

    After the few lines of the second and third cols, your page looks really empty! Just put those two cols together.

    Thread Starter Darcie

    (@darcie)

    Demarki, I was just trying to design a 3-column.
    I actually want to add static pictures to one of the columns when I am finished getting it to stick together.

    I have a template I like that it 2 col already that I will be switching back to anyday.

    Thread Starter Darcie

    (@darcie)

    I am persisting.

    I have Valid CSS, Valid XHTML 1.0,
    I added Float right to
    #madnessholder which holds the 2 sidebars, to the right of my main content.

    Downloaded Firefox, looks perfect,
    Opera looks perfect,
    IE6 looks perfect,

    Thread Starter Darcie

    (@darcie)

    next tackle please

    Way to go Darcie. You are certainly very persistent. Looks much better!

    P.S. Don’t let the validation Nazis get to you. Valid XHTML is a great goal, but it’s not the be-all and end-all of creating websites. Check out this post regarding validation:

    https://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/march-to-your-own-standard

    Thread Starter Darcie

    (@darcie)

    Thanks! Thats site is of my own thinking. I want to be a groupie! LOL.

    But I have to admit, realistically I had to be validated in order to get those two columns up where I wanted them. Getting all those stupid errors out of my way so I could clearly see where the problem was.

    I found the answer before I found the resource, so to speak. Floating & DIVS in my layout is the Norm shall we say.

    https://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=GalleryFloat
    https://www.redmelon.net/tstme/3colfixed/
    https://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace

    I will be exploring these sites in future use. Right now I do not have any DIVS set to CLEAR, Do I really need to apply Float Clear??

    Who would know the answer to that one. The sites I have here are for IE5 testing, Many of us are on IE6 now. Don’t you think?

    TATA for now… I am going to spiffy the site up with the rest of the design I planned. ??

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