willneea

Okay. Got it.

Is there some particular reason, that I am unaware of, that is preventing you from centering the layout horizontally?

Josh, sorry still get shift & width differences. 800 x 600 FF.
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SOLUTION:
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Submit your problem to this forum:
https://www.css-discuss.org/
They deal specifically with CSS problems. You’ll go nuts trying to figure it out yourself.

“I do want to start creating some templates for the WP crowd. “
Immediately, and permenately, delete that thought from your mind.
Trust me, neither one of is capable of doing that!
If your in the market for a WordPress template, Root’s site is the place to go.
Here’s a link to his site:
https://www.atthe404.com/blog/

I think you did a nice job.
Suggestion:
The fonts are perhaps a little small, try bumping them up some– but do so on an HTML document first (embedd the CSS), so that you can use your blog while you experiment. Fooling with font sizes can easily turn it into alphabet soup.
Try setting 100.01% on the body. Then % or em’s on the font sizes. Em’s are a little easier to work with. Either way, it’s trickey– just go slow and be patient, you’ll catch on to what controls what.

Nice job!

“alignment issues in opera but then who cares.”
Me.
Josh, the page width expands and contracts depending on what menu link I hit, regardless of browser– Opera or Firefox. Most likely an inconsistent padding issue in the menu code? Nice site, BTW.

Thanks.
I can’t spell my name.
https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/

” considering its got images its a bit difficult to keep the size way down”
I know exactly what you mean– have the same problem myself.
(can’t live with ’em, and can’t live without ’em)
willneea
https://www.dlaasko.com/blog/

And if that’s not enough, you may want to revise your CSS so that the text can be zoomed in IE, too. Right now you have the fonts set in pixels. The Gecko browsers and Opera scale pixels, but not IE. Fonts set with %, em’s, or %/em’s keeps all of them happy, including IE.
Good luck.
willneea
https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/

See Smoke Girl after 9 CSS errors were fixed. The CSS is now valid (embedded)
url: https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/smoke.html

See Smoke Girl after 29 of 33 error warnings were fixed.
url: https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/smoke.html
Fix the remaining document errors, and you should be good to go.

See Smoke Girl Fail To Validate:
https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.dlaakso.com/blog/smoke.html

See Smoke Girl Fixed and Centered:
url: https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/smoke.html

Fix for Girl Smoking:
Change the width of #menu from 35% to 30%
Suggestion for Girl Smoking:
Center the layout.
willneea
https://www.dlaakso.com/blog/