Website cut off in internet explorer and header issues

  • I’m editing the following site for a friend, as it has mainly been edited on a Mac we didn’t see it in internet explorer until recently (kinda wish we didn’t) anyhow I was able to sort our most of the problems but there are two that are still throwing me for a loop.

    1) In the logo the header drops down on the homepage, yet any other page it is correctly displayed. As far as I can tell it’s using the same code.

    2) The footer keeps wanting to drop in to the right side bar, not at the bottom of the page. I currently removed it but if anyone knows any tricks that may help.

    3) ok this is the real wammy, if you look at the any of the pages, such as shop or store events, internet explorer seems to want to cut the page in half. I can see the edge of the sidebar but not the entire thing, I also noticed it is cutting the header in half as well. I’m lost on this part and this is my main problem I’m sure enough prodding I can fix the other two.

    Anyhow here is the website link https://tabletopgameandhobby.com/welcome/ any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Also this theme is encoded, I have been able to work around it but I’m hoping to get this one up for him, until I have time to make him a new theme.

    I also like to add this site runs like a charm in firefox, safari, chrome, and even netscape.

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  • most browsers will struggle with so many validation errors , and particular the IE.

    even in firefox, the site looks broken; in single posts, the sidebar is below the content, etc.

    after you fixed the validation errors, starting at the top, the site will probably look better.

    Thread Starter snoddie

    (@snoddie)

    Indeed, when I went back and tried to change / fix these errors, it triggered some copy right protection code and closed down the theme, I decided to scrap it and start over, Now I’m working with a more basic theme called SongSomething.

    Anyhow since this is my first time really editing a WordPress theme, I figure I’d just keep all my questions here rather than flood the forums. I’m currently trying to edit the size of the thumbnails on the home page. I would like them to be long banners like 70 by 450 or something. Currently I have tried.

    1) editing this code
    <?php the_post_thumbnail(); add_image_size('singlethumb', 300, 300, true); ?>
    but it doesn’t seem to have any effect.

    2) I’ve also tried this tutorial but it just causes my site to crash, I’m sure it’s something I’m not understanding.

    What am I missing? am I even working with the right code? the theme currently already grabs thumbnails with the 2.9 feature I just don’t get resizing to work.

    Thanks in advance
    -Snoddie

    You need to use add_image_size in functions.php – eg:

    // Set up search thumb size
if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) {
	add_image_size( 'home-thumb', 70, 450, true );
}

    then use <?php the_post_thumbnail('home-thumb'); ?> in index.php. You might have to try swapping the true for false to try out the different crop modes. also, bear in mind that, as far as I can tell, the original image must exceed the dimensions of the new custom thumb. The post_thumbnail carried out a crop – not a resize.

    Thread Starter snoddie

    (@snoddie)

    Ya it’s resizing with this code, but not cropping. I was hopping to set it up so he could upload any image size without having to worry about it fitting into the theme.

    Thanks for getting things rolling esmi.

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