New look

[Frimsley]

I've only looked at this thread so far, but the main content has been pushed down to start below the bottom of the right hand column of ads (IE6, WinXP). It's fine if Firefox. This is usually down to tweaking some of widths specified for divs, and then making sure you test in a wide range of different browsers.

[Steve Bullman]

cheers....but do you know why it would work for me and not tony, despite the fact we run the same screen resolution?? im running IE and firefox, very strange.

[Ian150482]

I like the new look. Done a cracking job. Nice one Steve.

[Frimsley]

Could be an issue with the version of IE. I see the problem on my work machine with IE6. IE, particularly earlier versions, use a non standard concept of the 'box model'. Consequently, given the same width specification IE will display things slightly wider. I think you just need to tinker on a test bed. Increase the right margin on main_content to start with. You may want to use conditional comments (eg <!--[if lt IE 7]> ) to include a different style sheet for IE only once you've sorted it.

 

It could also be a nasty issue with floats that is a complete pig to debug.

[Amelanchier]

If it helps - i just tried it in 1024 x 768 with the same issue. IE version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (hmmm catchy)

[Frimsley]

Another thing Steve. I notice someone else has commented on page load time. The pages are now generally over half a MB in size. This one, as I write, comes in at 668kB. 475kB of that is in the 72 images, and 170kB in 12 external scripts. I should look at trying to slim this down. Notably, the timberwolf animated gif alone accounts for 110kB, and the rather nice gradient tree background another 57kB. A slowish mobile connection is really going to struggle with this.

[Khriss]

No- lot better ! Ads don't get in the way- plus I like red......

[Lee Winger]

Where's the Ganoderma bracket scored by the knife?!

 

Yeah I liked that too , bring back the bracket! otherwise looking good...

[Mac McLennan]

Wowwwww....Been without a phone or internet for 10 days now (moving house) and come back to this.....Fantastic Job steve.

 

Must dash have 2546 posts to catch up on:scared1:

[petertreepiper]

Shak n like a leaf in a tree ...... nice one