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#1 2006-05-20 21:01:58

David Andersson
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 10
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www.davidincyberspace.com

Simple two column layout. not so much content yet. mostly about my current projects and the geoquiz games that I created and put on the site and have gotten me and my friends hooked on for the moment. Uncertain what the site will evolve into.

I welcome your oppinions on the layout, setup, and content so far. Any improvement suggestions are also welcome of course.

http://www.davidincyberspace.com

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#2 2006-05-20 21:59:11

hcgtv
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From: Key Largo, Florida
Registered: 2005-11-29
Posts: 2,722
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

I like the color choices, nice clean design.

Does this mean that you’ll release the template?

/*

Theme Name: DavidInCyberspace

Theme URI: http://www.davidincyberspace.com

Description: The new david in cyberspace theme

Version: 1.0

Author: David Andersson

Author URI: http://www.davidincyberspace.com

*/

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#3 2006-05-21 07:08:40

David Andersson
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 10
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

hcgtv says: Does this mean that you’ll release the template?

I’m fairly new to textpattern and just joined the forum here so I really wouldn’t know what to do to release it. Is there somewhere to upload it or…?

Anyway, thanks for your feedback.

/David

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#4 2006-05-21 09:48:17

-P-
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From: Finland
Registered: 2005-09-10
Posts: 211

Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

Nice, clean design. Althou it breaks with my Mozilla. With Mozilla there is no margin left side in the big column and content floats to the left.

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#5 2006-05-21 09:55:14

David Andersson
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Registered: 2006-05-20
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

P says: With Mozilla there is no margin left side in the big column and content floats to the left.

Really? I’m running Mozilla 1.5.0.3 on Windows and it works like a charm. Just out of curiosity (and to be able to fix it), what version and OS are you using?

Thanks for the post, will try to fix it.

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#6 2006-05-21 10:23:48

-P-
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From: Finland
Registered: 2005-09-10
Posts: 211

Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

I´m running on Mozilla 1.7.12 and note, it is not the same thing than Firefox. If you´re using 1.5.0.3, that is FF.

The reason for me using Mozilla as default browser is that it is much more unforgiving buggier than FF. :D
It often renders background styling differently than FF.

Here´s the screenshot

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#7 2006-05-21 10:54:01

David Andersson
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 10
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

Yes, that screenshot did look ugly indeed. :)

Looks like I have to browser-secure my CSS a little better. Thanks again for the info. Looking into it.

— David

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#8 2006-05-21 11:40:35

sthmtc
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From: CGN, GER
Registered: 2005-01-17
Posts: 586
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

FYI, it’s broken in Safari as well. (no margin-left on the big-column, like the screenshot from FF)

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#9 2006-05-21 15:54:29

hcgtv
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From: Key Largo, Florida
Registered: 2005-11-29
Posts: 2,722
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

David, you can submit new designs at TextGarden

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#10 2006-05-21 16:22:45

David Andersson
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 10
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Re: www.davidincyberspace.com

It’s now working with Mozilla, Mozilla FF, IE, and Safari.

I went ahead and changed the CSS somewhat. Though it came with a boring penalty which could probably be fixed but I wanted to fix the obvious uggo-display my site had in the Mozilla and Safari browsers first.

The penalty is that I have to load the background for the content in the wrapper-section of the CSS instead of in the content section which makes it load ugly on slow bandwidth in IE. It flickers a bit when loading… But when loaded it works! Hitting refresh (F5) in IE will of course bring back that ugly loading flicker. Well, something to look into later.

In brief, the changes I had to make was to go for a float: left and float: right for the sidebar and main content respectively instead of only the float:left for the sidebar. IE and Mozilla FF didn’t mind my first approach (which I felt was cleaner and gave me better control of the environment) but Mozilla and Safari obviously had problems with it.

Anyway, I very much appreciate your feedback and comments on browsers it still doesn’t comply with, if any is left out there :)

Thanks much,
David

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