amandawa

I have a solution.

The short page appears to only be a problem for when looking at a larger screen (eg desktop). Mobile screens have a different layout which would be made ugly with this fix so I have targeted just bigger screens. I put this css is my child theme style sheet:

@media all and (min-width:910px) {
#content{
min-height: 550px;
}}

I am sure there will be other solutions more elegant than mine but I will share it in case it helps someone else.

I fixed this. It had something to do with having the content width set at 70% and the Sidebar width at 30%.

Internet Explorer decided in it infinite wisdom that a total width of 100% is too wide and wrapped the Sidebar down below the content. Reducing the Content width to 69% fixed it.

Not pretty because the sidebar isn’t sitting flush right but it will do. It looks fine in Firefox. There’s a solution: if I start a world campaign to get everyone to switch to FF my site will be perfect. ??

Amanda

When extracting ZIP files on Windows XP do not just double click on the ZIP. You have to right click and select extract.

Sure it seemed to do it’s thing but this dummy didn’t notice that all the files had their names changed to uppercase and the directory structure lost…

Which meant that a downloaded theme would never work, no matter how many times I tried. Grrr…

Thankyou Moshu – that makes sense.

Thankyou.

I worked through the list and fixed everything I could. It’s down to 3 that I don’t understand.

The sidebar still displays fine in FF but isn’t right in IE.

Something else strange in IE (though not important) is that the post headings should be red. The first few are showing black, then half way down they change to red. They should all be the same since they’re all the same kind of heading.

Amanda

The oranges and reds are from a tutorial I was following to try to understand how WordPress works. It is in a directory called test -but really it’s just a copy of the default.

The new theme is called giraffe2 – a proper downloaded one – in another directory called giraffe2.

Thankyou.