I've had OSX and Safari on my computer for three days now and I've just realised how grotty this blog looks with that combination. With my old set-up I had nice regular-looking posts with photos on the right; the text had orderly straight left-hand margins. My archives, links, Furl menu etc. were marshalled down the right in a side bar. Now the text is centred (why?!) and the items from the sidebar have all fallen to the bottom of the page (why?!) with bullet points beside them (why?!) . Does everybody else see my blog that way too? Why are there such big differences in the ways different browsers present things? It's like buying a new mirror and realising, aghast, that the comfortable old face you felt quite happy about presenting to the world is actually lop-sided, covered in wrinkles and warts and sags to boot. This will probably really happen when we get our new bathroom but that's another story....
Category: blogging
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4 comments:
Lesley, your blog looks the way it always has on my computer. Maybe that can be at least some consolation. I'm on a Windows XP machine running Mozilla Firefox, by the way.
Thanks Nancy. Maybe I'll change over to Firefox.
I thought your blog looked this way by design. Taking a peek at the source code I see the following in your stylesheet:
body (
background:#fff;
margin:0;
padding:40px 20px;
font:x-small Georgia,Serif;
text-align:center;
color:#333;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
)
The text-align:center part is what is making your posts show up as centered on the screen. Just change that to "left" and the text should look fine in Safari.
I also see some other funky things going on in your code that I can't explain, I really don't know why your blog shows up differently in Safari and Firefox. Weird.
-Izzy
Thanks for that Izzy, I've fixed the centering. Now, all I have to do is a bit of nipping and tucking elsewhere.
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