Hi again,

OK,  no one had an "aha" moment, so I did manage to get the server opened 
up and I'm going to try again.   I'm including below this message the stuff 
that I sent out before, just in case anyone wants to look at it.

Here's the problem again: part of my footer is riding up the page 
*occasionally*, seemingly without rhyme or reason  (The "oops_bar" image 
linked below is a mock-up of what happens).  One page that we've seen it 
happen on for sure is: http://zeta-www.kenyon.edu/x11593.xml , and there's 
some suspicion that it only happens on long pages.  I've only seen it 
happen in IE 6, but because it's so intermittent, I'm not certain that it 
doesn't happen in other browsers as well.

It had been suggested that the bar might have been landing at the bottom of 
the viewport rather than the bottom of the page where it belongs (thanks cj 
:) ), but I haven't spotted anything that seems to indicate that.  The 
beige bar and the purple bar are both within a div that clears the floated 
columns above -- is it possible for a child of a clearing div to "escape" 
if it's not also set to clear?

You'll notice that the content doesn't fully validate -- this is due to 
unclosed img and br tags that the CMS produces and that I haven't figured 
out how to get around.  The design itself should validate, and pages that 
don't have content images or breaks should validate (minus some truly 
obnoxious xmlns attributes that I'm still trying to get rid of).  If anyone 
has seen unclosed br and img tags do funny things to a design I want to 
hear about it, though!

Here's the index page to that site if you want to surf around and see if 
you can get it to happen on any other pages: 
http://zeta-www.kenyon.edu/index.xml

The server will be open to the world until tomorrow afternoon, when we'll 
be closing it up again.  At this point I'm not interested in any other 
crits, unless you find something *really* broken; the design is supposed to 
mimic the current site's design without being tables nested 4 deep, and 
it's only a stopgap due to last maybe a year before being replaced, but I 
would prefer that it not be doing random acrobatics in the meantime :)

Thanks in advance,
~RM

Stuff from my original message:

>Here's the fake screenshot: http://www1.kenyon.edu/examples/oops_bar.jpg 
>As you probably guessed, that purple bar should be at the bottom of the 
>window, directly beneath and snug up to the yellow bar, not floating 
>around in the middle.


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