Moveable Type Problem

[mythusmage]

HELP!

 

See blog for details.

[TCH-Tim]

I'm looking, but in the meantime, what did you change?

[mythusmage]

I'm looking, but in the meantime, what did you change?

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What does it look like on your machine?

[TweezerMan]

I believe the following changes will get your page back to something resembling normal:

 

1) CSS cosmetic change -

 

This is purely a suggestion - your sidebar column is too wide. In your stylesheet, change the widths as I have indicated in the #left and #center styles:

>#left {
 float: left;

//	width: 300px;
width: 220px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;

overflow: hidden;
}

#center {
 float: left;
//	width: 440px;
width: 480px;

overflow: hidden;
}

This will narrow the sidebar column, and widen your main column to compensate.

 

The following changes should fix the display problems in your template:

 

2) Opening div tag missing for calendar -

><div id="left">
<div class="sidebar">

<!-- Added missing beginning div tag for calendar -->
<div id="calendar">

<table summary="Monthly calendar with links to each day's posts">

 

3) Opening div tag missing for sidebar text just after calendar-

></table>
</div>

<!-- Added missing beginning div tag for sidebar text -->
<div class="link-note">

Email: mythusBOGUSmage (at) mythusBOGUSmage (dot) com<br>

 

I think these changes should take care of the major problems you're seeing.

 

Hope this helps...

[TCH-Tim]

David's suggestions plus add one more closing div at the end to close the beginning div tag for the sidebar text:

 

><div id="powered">
Powered by<br><a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type 3.15</a><br>    
</div>

//add one more closing div to close sidebar text
</div>

</div>

<div id="center">
<div class="content">

After doing that, the test page on my machine looks good.

Edited March 26, 2005 by timhodge

[TweezerMan]

Tim - I was already seeing two closing two div tags at the spot you're indicating:

><div id="powered">
Powered by<br /><a href="http://www.movabletype.org">Movable Type 3.15</a><br />    
</div>

</div>
</div>

<div id="center">
<div class="content">

[TCH-Tim]

Tim - I was already seeing two closing two div tags at the spot you're indicating:

Weird. When I view source on the live page, I see two. When I save the page to my machine and view source, there's only one.

[mythusmage]

Didn't change the columns. I did add the division tags, with one change. I closed the tag that 'starts' the email address just after it.

 

Thank you David and Tim.