Tuesday, September 11

Geek

My Links Are Blue

And I am too.

Not. smile

Running live on 1.1 now.  The blue links are a side-effect: my blog was set up on a slightly dodgy 1.1 alpha, so a few things glitched when I merged it back into the mainstream.  It should fix itself, though, if I do this...

Yes!  Okay, those colours aren't quite right either, but that's what you get from a quick clicky-clicky.

Update: Colours are back again.  The colour picker does let you put in hex values if you really want to.  (Also colour names for the 140 standard named colours.)

The one remaining bug is something that didn't break that should have; namely, my banner.  I changed the banner sizing from exclusive to inclusive at the last minute; either way is confusing, but inclusive is probably less so.  Having the same number but assigning it a different meaning should have screwed up my banner image, but it's fine, so there's something wrong with the code there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:45 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Okay, I know you changed columns and everything, but I still have the overwrite thing going here on your blog.  So now the post overwrites the right side column... slightly better than when it ran totally off the page as I can still read it.  An upcoming fix?  

Posted by: Teresa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 09:15 AM (rVIv9)

2 That seems to be a browser bug; I haven't had any luck in fixing it yet. neutral

The CSS is set specifically to say that the content column is this wide, and thou shalt not overwrite the sidebar at any time.  But if you make the font size large enough, it goes plooie.

Let me fiddle a little...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 11:40 AM (PiXy!)

3 There's a fruitcake error!

Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, September 12 2007 11:41 AM (+wF4P)

4 An error occurred: Fruitcake error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mica' (111)
I'm surprised your comments work....

Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, September 12 2007 11:42 AM (+wF4P)

5 Thanks Susie.  I hadn't checked my email yet today.

The other mu.nu server melted this time.  I've rebooted it, and we should be back online in a few minutes.

We'll all be trooping across to a shiny new server next Sunday, which should put an end to server meltings.  I hope.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 11:56 AM (PiXy!)

6 Yay! to fixed....Boo! to meltyness...

Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, September 12 2007 12:02 PM (+wF4P)

7 LOL - well of course there must be a browser bug - I know it's because whoever created CSS decided I was not allowed to read nice large print. ;-)

Ah well... such is life.

Posted by: Teresa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 12:34 PM (rVIv9)

8 Done some more testing:

Firefox and Safari suffer from the bug; IE and Opera don't.

It happens on the test page as well as this blog - but on the test page it only happens in 3-column mode.  The test page uses floats for 2-column layouts, and absolute positioning only for three columns, so if I implement that in the live system that should fix things for my site at least.

Also, it's a quantum bug.  Everything's fine up to a point, then the whole content column jumps to the right and overlays the sidebar.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 12:54 PM (PiXy!)

9 Aha!  It's something to do with the banner, probably the site menu.  If I turn the banner off, the problem goes away.  Tweak tweak...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 01:08 PM (PiXy!)

10 Yep, it's the site menu.  Tweaks more...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 01:11 PM (PiXy!)

11 Woohoooooo!!! You are so excellent Pixy.  With my completely rudimentary html skilz and non-existent CSS... I am in awe!

Posted by: Teresa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 01:21 PM (rVIv9)

12 smile

It still goes wonky if you push your font size up beyond about 32 pixels, but I think a lot of sites will break at that point.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 12 2007 01:41 PM (PiXy!)

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