Anne Truitt Zelenka

I hacked away merrily at my Blogger template over the weekend ’til it looked okay in Firefox 1.5 and then published it, figuring I’d check how it looked in other browsers later. Rick, my husband and in-house tester, took a look at it with IE6 and blech. The main page is getting truncated where my sidebar ends. It’s not going to happen for everyone using IE6, I believe, because it has to do with the browser caching the content div height from other pages viewed on the site. For more, see Jeffrey Zeldman. The solution he offers in his book Designing with Web Standards involves a little javascript function. I prefer a more robust solution that has some chance of working across browsers without my checking everyone. I’m going to use a hybrid approach described by Zeldman in his book. I’ll use light tables for layout, XHTML 1.0 transitional for markup, and CSS for formatting.

I hate floats, man.

UPDATE 1/18/06 5:30 pm: I’ve put in a table that should keep things better behaved for IE users and all the browsers that I haven’t checked myself. Here’s a blog cleanup checklist from Rachel at cre8d design; her blog has a cheery new design with spring colors. I haven’t yet gone through her checklist, but I have it on my to do list.