iamPariah

When I go to mdcmagicvalley.com/wp I see the default installation with the test post (no graphics expected there). What should be there?

Oh, sorry. I mean, ask your hosting provider those questions.

Look, man. I’m not here to argue. I help out other people around here when I can. I’m just another WP user asking for help with a problem he can’t solve on his own.

If you can help me, please do. If not, then I appreciate the conversation, but I’d really like to limit this thread to direct discussion of the technical issue I’m facing.

<sigh> Still working on the site. Some of the little things like that have yet to be added back in.

I DO clearly promote WordPress on the page about the site tech and design.

Of course, you, Root, clearly promote a different blog platform on your blog. So why are you here muddying up other people’s requests for help with blog software that obviously isn’t good enough for you?

You should get an e-mail from wordpress@yoursite with the subject [Your Blog] New User Registration.

Easy enough, NeoconNews. Here’s how.

I just replied to Arranf’s post about this. Maybe it would help you guys, too.

It should be near instantaneous, Arranf. Have you tried registering new accounts yourself?

The reason I ask is that it’s possible your e-mails are being stopped by your users’ anti-spam systems. If you try it, however, at an account that already receives mail from your blog, then you can truly ascertain whether the mails are being sent.

If they don’t make it to you, I would start by looking for sendmail on your server. Is sendmail installed and available for your use? If so, is your site configured to allow scripts to access sendmail? Some servers prevent that as a security precaution. Your host should be able to answer these questions for you.

Is there someone out there who can offer me suggestions for fixing the problem without getting personally offended by the request?

I’m not a newb to either WP or CSS, but I feel like this is a very simple issue and solution that I’m just not grasping. I’ll be happy to provide my CSS file (again, I tried, but the post containing the link keeps getting yanked from this thread).

a link to the blog in question would be handy.

That had been in my very first post, the one that started this thread. (The post from me that begins with “the site is valid” was a reply to my original post.) Somehow that original post and the link and problem description it contained was deleted between the time I posted it and you responded initially. (I reposted my original text; it is now reply #5 above.)

As I said in my original post, it works for every major browser except Mozilla/FF. Between Win and Mac I’m looking at the site right now in: IE6 (Win), IE7 (Win), IE5 (Mac), Opera (Win & Mac), iCab (Mac), Safari (Win & Mac), and FireFox (Win & Mac). Only FireFox shows the problem. This has been independently verified by several code-savvy visitors.

Root, instead of getting defensive over something that has nothing to do with you, why not try to help someone who is asking for help? Go to my site. See the problem for yourself.

The problem only manifests with Mozilla/FF, but I’ve always been ready to accept–and I do believe–there is something in my code that is either causing it or at least not fixing the FF issue. Unfortunately, every time I try to post the links to my CSS files, the forum deletes that post.

Root,

Why are you taking an issue with FireFox personally? If you’re unable to help, say so and leave the thread alone. I won’t hold it against you. But don’t get upset over software as unimportant as a browser someone else coded.

Search these forums or Google; you’ll see the issue discussed numerous times. Unfortunately, all I can seem to find is people talking about the problem, not about a solution that I can use (I’ve tried the solutions I found to no avail).

Ok. You are on your own now.

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Here’s what WAS above, but was apparently deleted without notification by someone.

Please, please (please) help. I’ve searched through the forums and found many people asking for help with the same issue but no solutions that work for my site.

FireFox (Win, Mac, and Linux) has a long-standing bug that can cause problems with side-by-side floated containers whose content is filled by WP. In the past, I’ve been able to work around the bug, but I can’t figure it out this time.

The site is: https://designorati.com/ Visit it in ANY other browser and it works great–the main “guts” content column floats left, the sidebar floats right. In FireFox, however, the main “guts” column stacks UNDER the sidebar.

Ohhh-kay. What the hell? Someone (or the forum software) deleted the first two parts of my support question–the parts where I actually describe the problem!

Apparently I’m not allowed to link to a malfunctioning site or the CSS files in my request for help??

That is it. Right there. Absolute positioning has no place in variable length items like blogs. You need float positioning and possibly faux columns

Root, that is not it. The problem I described occurs with float positioning. I tried absolute positioning as a workaround to the FF bug, but, as I noted, that attempt did not fix the issue.

If you look at the site and my CSS, you’ll see the problem, which, again, only exists in FF. Every other browser (IE6/IE7, Opera, iCab, Safari, etc.) displays the site correctly.