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Still hoping for a response.

Micheal,
I found the header slideshow worked great with Chrome and Firefox, but IE made the webpage load badly. The centered part of the webpage — the part with text and image on a white background — slipped all the way to the left for some reason. In doing that, it also covered up part of an image I had loaded as logo/background at the top of the page.

I tried deactivating the plugin, then refreshing the page, which then made the centered part of the webpage move over back to the center where it belongs. Then I reactivated the plug in, and found that refreshing the page made it work great, with everything positioned as I wanted. The problem was that that only worked with refreshing a page where the centered part was already centered. If I didn’t just refresh, but actually closed IE and then reopened it, I found the webpage back with the centered part slipped over to the left.

Not sure why refreshing doesn’t kill the plug in, but closing and reopening IE wrecks it. Actually, the plug in was not “killed” — it still was visible working — but only at the expense of the rest of the page being disarranged. But Firefox and Chrome, no problem. Wish I could make it work on IE.

Ok, playing around some more. After deactivating the plugin, I reactivated it step by step, each time checking to see if IE would wrongly shift the text image to the left again. It didn’t, and everything seemed hunky dory. I kept reloading/refreshing the page in IE and nothing bad resulted. So then I closed the IE browser and restarted it, instead of just refreshing/reloading. Wanted to see if that would make any difference. It did. The website was a mess again. The text and image, which are supposed to be centered, instead went all the way to the left together with their white background. Once that happens, their white background also seems to cover up most of the logo image on top of the site. Why does reloading/refreshing not mess up the page, but closing IE and then opening it again messes up the page?

Well, after leaving my message above, I deactivated a plugin developed by Michael Smale for a header slideshow — deactivating that plugin seems to have removed the difference between IE and the other browsers.

Would be nice to have a header slideshow that worked in all browsers…

figured it out myself — used a plug-in from Michael Smale — which itself took a while to figure out.

Still waiting for a reply on this one.

I figured it out — Settings — Reading — set front page