1. It really is very strange how IE & Safari count the margin as part of the width, sort of. It's really very annoying! But thanks for clarifying.
2. I think I fiddle around with and specify way too many things that most people would just leave alone, like the quickreply forms and subject/month pages. I'm really way too nitpicky and perfectionistic.. that's probably why I have weird stuff in my css that isn't commonly used, heh. Oh well..
3. I specified the body color because I didn't specify the text color anywhere else, except for links. It just seemed easier to specify it once. And the background happens to be the same color because I wanted it to appear as though #container was contiguous with the general body background (and the background-color for #container is also that same color). You know, it probably would be better just to specify colors for the individual sections, though...
4. I've been working on using margin: 0 auto; more than having the 4-point value or whatever you call it -- honestly, I didn't even know there was a way to use only two numbers (top/bottom, left/right) until recently! (and I demonstrate my amateurishness yet again.. heh.) anyway, I've noticed that IE/Safari don't always understand those wacky margin values. Do you think it helps to specify it individually, as in, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, margin-bottom? I haven't really noticed it helping or changing much, but maybe it does in some instances..
5. Thanks for pointing that out about the b:hover thing! I guess I'm okay with the colors for the ljusers being maybe messed up in IE/Safari sometimes though, as long as it's only the colors.. it does kind of drive me batty which is why I specified it in the first place at all, but, you know, you can't fix everything I guess. (It is VERY annoying to me that .ljuser and b are always confused because the ljusers usually show up in bold, or whatever).
6. Yeah, the body is centered actually, I think, except that it appears like it isn't because the userpic wall of space is also part of the body. So it seems a little off towards the right..
7. I got rid of a lot of the defined widths for a lot of the sub-divs (?) like .navigation, .entry, etc. I just specified the width for #content instead. (which you can see in my updated css in this post. I put it in a (bigger) textarea since it seemed like it was too long to scroll down.. I hope that still works for you, though).
8. Yes, you're right :) I did want h1 above .navigation. I have it disabled in my version, I should probably check to see if it still looks ok when enabled.. I'm somewhat miffed that there's no subtitle class in Transmogrified; sometimes I like to use those things though it's nice to have the subtitle too! heh, nitpickiness again I guess..
9. got rid of #wrap -- it does sound very strange indeed, I hadn't noticed the horizontal thing but I did notice that it seemed to be a rather elusive div. um. I mean, it was easier/better to work with other things, like #content and #container.
10. I fixed up the css by just allowing more #content space (and not defining the widths for every single part of #content, just defining it overall..) -- it seems to work alright. I had to fiddle with the margins for .navigation and some of the other stuff, but it seems to work. I still have widths defined for the archive page and tags page stuff because it seems to fall in other divs and classes. I think it works for now, hopefully.
11. thanks for the really good suggestion about bordering and coloring stuff really wackily in order to figure out exactly how things are slotting up! that's really useful. i did use background-colors to see how things were working out earlier, but i didn't think of using borders and better colors.. hah.
honestly, sometimes i wonder why i make layouts (and keep making them rather than sticking to one, or whatever) when they're this meticulous and frustrating! (i seem to love it anyway..) i don't make as many layouts as a lot of people on layout comms seem to, though.
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2. I think I fiddle around with and specify way too many things that most people would just leave alone, like the quickreply forms and subject/month pages. I'm really way too nitpicky and perfectionistic.. that's probably why I have weird stuff in my css that isn't commonly used, heh. Oh well..
3. I specified the body color because I didn't specify the text color anywhere else, except for links. It just seemed easier to specify it once. And the background happens to be the same color because I wanted it to appear as though #container was contiguous with the general body background (and the background-color for #container is also that same color). You know, it probably would be better just to specify colors for the individual sections, though...
4. I've been working on using margin: 0 auto; more than having the 4-point value or whatever you call it -- honestly, I didn't even know there was a way to use only two numbers (top/bottom, left/right) until recently! (and I demonstrate my amateurishness yet again.. heh.) anyway, I've noticed that IE/Safari don't always understand those wacky margin values. Do you think it helps to specify it individually, as in, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, margin-bottom? I haven't really noticed it helping or changing much, but maybe it does in some instances..
5. Thanks for pointing that out about the b:hover thing! I guess I'm okay with the colors for the ljusers being maybe messed up in IE/Safari sometimes though, as long as it's only the colors.. it does kind of drive me batty which is why I specified it in the first place at all, but, you know, you can't fix everything I guess. (It is VERY annoying to me that .ljuser and b are always confused because the ljusers usually show up in bold, or whatever).
6. Yeah, the body is centered actually, I think, except that it appears like it isn't because the userpic wall of space is also part of the body. So it seems a little off towards the right..
7. I got rid of a lot of the defined widths for a lot of the sub-divs (?) like .navigation, .entry, etc. I just specified the width for #content instead. (which you can see in my updated css in this post. I put it in a (bigger) textarea since it seemed like it was too long to scroll down.. I hope that still works for you, though).
8. Yes, you're right :) I did want h1 above .navigation. I have it disabled in my version, I should probably check to see if it still looks ok when enabled.. I'm somewhat miffed that there's no subtitle class in Transmogrified; sometimes I like to use those things though it's nice to have the subtitle too! heh, nitpickiness again I guess..
9. got rid of #wrap -- it does sound very strange indeed, I hadn't noticed the horizontal thing but I did notice that it seemed to be a rather elusive div. um. I mean, it was easier/better to work with other things, like #content and #container.
10. I fixed up the css by just allowing more #content space (and not defining the widths for every single part of #content, just defining it overall..) -- it seems to work alright. I had to fiddle with the margins for .navigation and some of the other stuff, but it seems to work. I still have widths defined for the archive page and tags page stuff because it seems to fall in other divs and classes. I think it works for now, hopefully.
11. thanks for the really good suggestion about bordering and coloring stuff really wackily in order to figure out exactly how things are slotting up! that's really useful. i did use background-colors to see how things were working out earlier, but i didn't think of using borders and better colors.. hah.
honestly, sometimes i wonder why i make layouts (and keep making them rather than sticking to one, or whatever) when they're this meticulous and frustrating! (i seem to love it anyway..) i don't make as many layouts as a lot of people on layout comms seem to, though.