Just got my $100 18″ widescreen monitor in. I must admit, this makes the website make a lot more sense than all of the scrolling to the right that needed to be done previously.

hum…Booted into Windows. It looks the same. And now I look like an….Well never mind. I booted into Linux this morning without looking at it in Windows.

Under Windows Vista the site resembles the old SEB. Well Kinda… But under Linux the site takes on a black and white look. It looks good, very crisp… It required 11 plug ins. The only thing it lacks is a history. You can’t see the recently posted on the left side. I can see it in Windows however.

I downloaded Linux to a 16gb flash drive and booted. Also used the Linux installed on my computer. Both are the same…

I’ve switched over to a temporary template until I can manage to work through something new on my own. The old ported template was causing too many problems.

The good news is that I think I’m getting my head around how to develop child themes for the Thematic framework. The bad news is that all the examples I’ve comes across are fixed width layouts like this one. It seems that’s the law of the land in web design these days and so far my attempts to make a fluid design in Thematic have been… tragic.

The sidebar appears below the rest of the page for me. That is below the comment entry box for articles and below the last article on the main page.

I’m viewing it in 1024 X 768 resolution. The problem is only in IE. Firefox and Safari display properly.

Edit: And I now see that you’re already aware of the problem. Nevermind.

I’m still seeing the “comment field has no right edge except the scroll bar” issue, but I can’t think of what I might have going on that might make it different that anyone else’s browser.

For comparison though, I loaded this page into my IE8 browser to see what it would do. The comment field is fixed over there, but the left sidebar doesn’t appear until after the captcha field. My IE8 is unused enough that it still nags me about taking the tour for its “exciting new features” so I probably don’t have anything interesting loaded in there.

Well I checked in all the browsers I’ve got on my system when I got home and the only one I saw a definite problem in was IE8. It slide the left sidebar all the way down under the content.

That said, I’m wrapping my head around a couple of frameworks which I may end up going with instead of just coding by hand. The one problem I’m having is that they all want to insist on a fixed-width layout and I much prefer a fluid content area.

What browser are you guys using MM and ESA? It looks fine in Firefox and Google Chrome. Haven’t checked it in IE or Safari yet. Will do that when I get home tonight.

I’m running Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu. BTW, whatever changes you might have recently made have fixed the issue for me.

I’m using Firefox 3.5.5.

I’m one of the unwashed masses that uses IE (I think I may have typed EI last time…. whoops)