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I like the simple design, but I think a bit more contrast between the content and the background might also look nice.

It’s a nice site with a unique design, but I have to say that I’m not all that wild about the color scheme. Otherwise, it’s quite good.

Ha, that was it! I had completely forgotten about the automatic tag correction option. I turned it off, added the closing < /p > and now it validates.
Thanks a lot, ryoken! Awesome graphic on your site, by the way!

Sorry, I’m not exactly the CSS master, but checking out this site might be a good place to start before someone else jumps in with some more helpful input.
The page displays just fine in IE6, by the way (although the Blogtimes image is missing).

Just to update, I checked my .htaccess file and realized that I had mistyped some of the permalinks code. I corrected the code and now the archives display properly.
As for the menu, I ended up creating a separate floating div to contain only the menu and then messed with the margins a bit and that seems to have done the trick. I’ve checked in IE 6.0 and FireFox 0.9 and the page seems to display properly in both, however I would appreciate it if anyone could let me know if it still doesn’t display properly in another browser.
Thanks again for all of the support!

Crikey, you’re right! Any idea how to remedy that?
(Thanks for checking, by the way)

I’m looking at it in IE 6.0 and the menu is floating up halfway through the header, pushing your logo over to the far right.
Looks good otherwise!

In your CSS file, you should see something like this:
#header {
background: F2F2F2;
[a bunch of other stuff]
}
Change that F2F2F2 to whatever color you want.
Let us know how you get on.

podz & Root:
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I put a solid border around the content and saw what was wrong and started from there. I’ve gone through the CSS and tried to clean things up a bit – got rid of unnecessary padding, changed all units to px, etc.
I’m a little confused about the issue of using width plus padding or borders. I don’t suppose any of the changes that I made would have remedied the situation at all…? I haven’t yet tried to put an inner menu inside of the menu – would that just involve putting in a new <div>?
I appreciate all of your help… this is all new to me.

Good point.
Basically, my problem was that I didn’t want others to be able to access my wordpress folder at mydomain.com/wordpress, but I didn’t know how to restrict access.
To solve the problem, I ended up using Telnet to view the ‘Properties’ of the folder and unclick the ‘Read’ box under the ‘Public’ heading, thereby which anyone who attempts to access mydomain.com/wordpress will get a 403: Forbidden message.
I believe this is all related to chmod coding, but I’m not very familiar with this.

Thanks for the reply, ohdear. You also helped me out with an earlier issue – I appreciate it.
1) I removed the “clear: both;” line and it fixed the problem. Thanks for the tip. Hopefully I won’t find out later that I actually DO need that line in there for something else.
2) I tried putting the border on the left of the content, but didn’t work out very well for whatever reason. I also noticed that menu column displaces the content text by a few pixels to the right which probably has something to do with using float and it has proven difficult to fix. I’m thinking that I might just cheat with a layered background image since I can’t seem to find a workable solution.
Any suggestions on how to fix the text displacement? I’ve fiddled with the margins & padding, but nothing seems to work. Actually, if I put the content margin to anything less than 13em, the entire text shifts all the way to the left. Puzzling!

Aha! Thanks so much!
Nice site, by the way – very slick.

Incidentally, I was just fiddling with my search box today, too. I only wish I had seen this thread first… it would have saved me a lot of work.
I have one follow-up question: on shadow’s site (and mine as well), when you click inside the search box, the search button gets a darkened border. Is there anyway to stop that from happening?
Cheers!

Re: bug #3
I had the same problem – after setting everything up and logging in as admin for the first time, I couldn’t logout! If I clicked the button, I would be taken to the “Write” screen.
I finally deleted my cookies and then logged in again and now it seems to be working fine – I can log in and log out as different users.
Anyone else have this problem?