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Originally posted by BaftaBabe

ChocoSutra: Chocolate rendition from the temple carvings of the Kama Sutra.

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Originally posted by BaftaBabe

ChocoSutra: Chocolate rendition from the temple carvings of the Kama Sutra.

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Now you all know why I didn't enter this round!

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Originally posted by Improper Username

Help, please, especially from benj and baffy and anyone who understands css:

I am working on a new display for the avatars:
http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome

and I can't get the menu list to appear centered. In MSIE it runs off to the right and it is too far to the left in Firefox. I have to take a break from it for awhile because I've wasted too much time on it today, lol.

Also, I would appreciate feedback from anyone who cares to take a look on the performance of the page. Does it do OK (other than the centering issue above) with your computer and your browser? If not, I would like to know the specifics, and even a screen cap sent to [email protected] if you don't mind.

What Cheese Ed and I are are doing is moving the weekly avatar contest into zenphoto, using it as a backend for managing the gallery. http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome is a frontend display for it that merges the old gallery (where the avs are long binary data in a database) with zenphoto where the avs are discrete files. I also plan to make some little applications to automate some of Cheese Ed's work.

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Originally posted by Improper Username

Help, please, especially from benj and baffy and anyone who understands css:

I am working on a new display for the avatars:
http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome

and I can't get the menu list to appear centered. In MSIE it runs off to the right and it is too far to the left in Firefox. I have to take a break from it for awhile because I've wasted too much time on it today, lol.

Also, I would appreciate feedback from anyone who cares to take a look on the performance of the page. Does it do OK (other than the centering issue above) with your computer and your browser? If not, I would like to know the specifics, and even a screen cap sent to [email protected] if you don't mind.

What Cheese Ed and I are are doing is moving the weekly avatar contest into zenphoto, using it as a backend for managing the gallery. http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome is a frontend display for it that merges the old gallery (where the avs are long binary data in a database) with zenphoto where the avs are discrete files. I also plan to make some little applications to automate some of Cheese Ed's work.

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Originally posted by Improper Username

Help, please, especially from benj and baffy and anyone who understands css:

I am working on a new display for the avatars:
http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome

and I can't get the menu list to appear centered. In MSIE it runs off to the right and it is too far to the left in Firefox. I have to take a break from it for awhile because I've wasted too much time on it today, lol.

Also, I would appreciate feedback from anyone who cares to take a look on the performance of the page. Does it do OK (other than the centering issue above) with your computer and your browser? If not, I would like to know the specifics, and even a screen cap sent to [email protected] if you don't mind.

What Cheese Ed and I are are doing is moving the weekly avatar contest into zenphoto, using it as a backend for managing the gallery. http://fwiffer.com/fwfrhome is a frontend display for it that merges the old gallery (where the avs are long binary data in a database) with zenphoto where the avs are discrete files. I also plan to make some little applications to automate some of Cheese Ed's work.

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First of all, I think the whole concept is terrific and well done! - I've accessed on IE8 and FF4+ and both look exactly the same to me.

2nd - benj is probably much better than I to give it the eagle-eye. I understand about a thimbleful of css, but I've been studying the View Page Source and I also ran it by my (admittedly out of date) Validator. So I've got a few queries/observations, and I'm not sure whether any/some would affect the centering of the menu.

1. There seem to be some anomalies and redundancies in some of the markup expressions. I know from past experience that sometimes IE is more forgiving than FF about code contradictions, and sometimes it's the reverse. And that can produce some weird, unintended displays. I'm talking about stuff like - your H1 tags are within a p tag, which is deprecated. I see you haven't closed your p tags, which I know isn't strictly necessary, but sometimes seems to be confuse a browser.

2. I'm not sure why you're defining H1 in situ, as it were, when you could define it in the style type = settings between <head> and </head> I can't see any advantage of including two different definitions of the same tag, when you're only using one on the page. You've got that a number of times, actually, especially when defining fonts. I suspect there might be less confusion if you devolved all the definitions to your href="css/prettyPhoto.css" stylesheet, if that's possible.

3. Just before the menu, I'm not sure why you've got a div align = center and then in the next line, there's a div definition for position: absolute;

4. Recently I was going bonkers with some code until I lurked on a css forum and read that some browsers react really badly if you mix single and double quotes for definition attributes and values. When I made them consistent, the problem was solved. I don't know whether that might have any effect for you.

5. But I think the real culprit may be because you've got closing table tags but no opening ones.

Have a look when you've uncrossed your eyes. And I hope at least some of that may be helpful.

Cheers
BB

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