eleutheria

Besides, it’s nothing compared to “$cats” and “$dogs”.

Fair enough. I guess I’ve learned most of what I know hacking and crufting away between classes, to mixed results. And to tell you the truth, I really am tired of it! I think I should take your point and run with it — I would love an easy life.
I don’t know if this should continue here or somewhere else, but I have a question about how to change the menu items depending on where you are in the site. Nothing fancy, actually, I just want to highlight the active section somehow, like bolding the title of the active category or archive. I think this might involve some if…else, but not sure how to do it in the index.php. Any help?
And any other thoughts on the design? I’m not sure about the background.
Thanks for all the comments. This is a fine forum. And by the way, I haven’t mentioned that I am yet another MT convert, by way of Mambo.

Ok, this is really silly but I had some DOCTYPE issues. I fixed those, which led to my fixing the padding/width math in the stylesheet, and everything seems to look good to me everywhere except IE/Mac. Safari and Mozilla look good on Mac, and IE, Opera, and FireFox look good on XP.
Hope this can be confirmed!
There are three problems in IE/Mac:
1. Shadow divs don’t show up, maybe a width issue? Is this the IE5.5 bug?
2. Document has lots of blank space at the bottom.
3. Horizontal scroll bar in the content div. Something to do with how IE/Mac renders the vertical scrollbar on top of the content?
Anyway, this isn’t a CSS forum, but just thought I’d point these out to the interested.
Anybody have any idea what the javascript flashing problem is with FireFox?

“If you would have actually coded your site to standards… Sad really.”
I totally agree with you! Absolutely. I’m a pathetic newbie. I’m just starting to learn CSS, so I haven’t learned all the tricks to write standards compliant code and also achieve the look.
I certainly wasn’t saying I choose not to play nice with FireFox! I love FireFox! (I hate that flashing javascript insanity too, by the way. I’d like to keep the fade effect but that’s just awful…)
So if you have any suggestions, I’d really appreciate them.
“But why is the search box missing?”
Search box is missing because I have some XP bug that makes all text input boxes (only in FireFox and IE, weirdly) 10 times the stated size. So that’s just for my own personal benefit, until I fix the bug or just reinstall XP.
“And how come I have to scroll horizontally to get to the main div scroll bar?”
Not sure about that, is it a resolution issue?
I like the separate scroll because I wanted to keep everything static in the browser window. But maybe I could achieve a similar thing by absolutely positioning the three other divs so that they stay put while the main content div is offset from the top and flows normally?? But then I would lose the overall symmetry.
Back to the drawing board…