Well, things are looking up since my last post.<\/p>\n
Dylan Thurston pointed out that I could rescue several recent posts by going to Google’s catche. Thanks, Dylan! (Google didn’t catche the comments, alas. Which is sad, because a couple of those discussions were really good.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
I got the sidebar to look okay in IE.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
At RaynDragon’s suggestion, I made the top graphic (the screaming “Alas” dude) into a link back to the front of the blog. Thanks, Rayn!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
JennHi told me how to get rid of the horrible annoying horizontal scroll! Huzzah! Thanks, JennHi!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
I got the brick-red at the top of the blog to bleed all the way to the margins in Opera (although not in IE or Firefox). Since Opera is what I use to read “Alas,” and I doubt anyone other than me cares, I can live with that. (What worked was removing all the padding from the “body” attribute).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Stephen Bounds explained to me that ” ‘padding’ adds space within <\/em>the current layout box, while ‘margin’ adds space outside <\/em>that box,” which is probably the single most useful thing anyone’s ever told me about laying out in CSS. Knowing that made playing around with how the sidebar and main text are laid out much <\/em>easier. Thanks, Stephen.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The “sidebar overlap” problem rather mysteriously fixed itself, at least in the three browsers I’m using on a Windows machine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n I still have a lot to do on the blogroll, and all the little bighead drawings need to be restored, but in the meanwhile we seem to have a fully functioning, acceptable-looking “Alas.”<\/p>\n Three questions.<\/strong> First of all, does “Alas” look wrong or awful (more so than usual, I mean) to any readers out there? I know not everyone is using IE, Opera or Firefox on a Widows machine. (Although, really, I can’ t recommend Opera highly enough.)<\/p>\n Second, apparently the RSS feed isn’t working. Since I don’t know a thing about RSS, I haven’t a clue how to fix it, but I’ll try to work on it. But if anyone knows what’s wrong, please give me a shout-out.<\/p>\n And third, what do you folks think of the “most recent by…” feature added to the “recent comments” list on the sidebar? It’s kinda neat to know who the most recent poster was, but on the other hand the “recent posts” list isn’t as tidy looking as it was and take up twice as much space. Anyone have a preference?<\/p>\n In the meanwhile, suggestions are quite welcome – about RSS, and also about any CSS or layout tweaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, things are looking up since my last post. Dylan Thurston pointed out that I could rescue several recent posts by going to Google’s catche. Thanks, Dylan! (Google didn’t catche the comments, alas. Which is sad, because a couple of … Continue reading