Hi I'm new here... Due to having big brothers and boyfriends and other people who know far more about computers than I, I have generally managed to do quite nicely completely avoiding having to know anything more than absolutely necessary about computers. My definition of the just tolerable bare minimum was enough to get me a part time job during university as on-campus tech support but I really don't know much about computers. :)
While trying to decide whether or not to enroll for a fourth term of advanced accelerated immersion Chinese at the local university a local travel agency offered me a job rewriting their English language website. http://www.668tour.com/en/index.asp It was originally written by a German employee with code help from the man who wrote the Chinese website http://www.anandatour.com.cn/china/index.asp Scary, isn't it? He can't understand how I'm able to do any coding at all using Notepad or why I don't want a 'good' program like Dreamweaver on my computer. While rewriting the content to actually reflect the rules of the English language and putting up more photos I began cleaning the HTML, removing large blocks of redundant code, adding escape tags, running it through Mozilla's Error Console and stuff like that but was still working mostly within the tables format I'd been given. Then, about two weeks ago I discovered CSS... The last time I wrote a website was before I moved to China. I'd never used CSS before but ooh, fun, pretty, makes things smaller, and makes them work more logically than tables. I've now got some of my beta uploaded to the web and can finally look at it in Internet Explorer and I'm finding all sorts of finicky problems, as well as one or two problems I haven't been able to solve in Mozilla. I'd prefer having two or three tests written up to stick on the web to look at but the person in charge of the server refuses to so much as tell me the name of it, let alone give me the right to logon and upload things. Explaining that I was doing a beta-test and did _not_ want him to remove the former website to put these pages up was great fun. Why would I need to do something like that? (Lest I fall into the trap of only saying bad things about my coworker's skill with computers, he's astonishingly good at getting the printer unjammed... and has managed to convince the people in charge that you should shut the computers down instead of pulling the plug when you want to turn them off...) http://www.anandatour.com.cn/test/index.html Looks great in Mozilla. Text can be scaled up/down with no problems. For some reason, however, IE refuses to align my 3 columns correctly. I keep getting 2 columns + 1. I thought the problem was that div id=main has margins of 4% and it isn't accepting that these divs are inside that div so is adding the percents together. But, when I get rid of main altogether and change the column widths in the CSS so that it definitely adds up to 100% it still won't line up right. Beginning to feel a bit stymied by this. Have managed to find and remove some junk code I missed on the last few cleanups but I still can't make it line up right. http://www.anandatour.com.cn/test/beachinfo.html My nemesis. Looks great in Mozilla. Internet Explorer insists on having the table start right under the end of the paragraph introducing people to the beaches. I had kept tables here in the first place because it was the only way I could figure out how to have "Sanya" start underneath the picture of the woman on the beach. http://www.anandatour.com.cn/test/hotel-hk.html http://www.anandatour.com.cn/test/hk-xld.html have a different problem where I went and forgot to notice that a div class and div style didn't need to be marked seperately. That's been fixed. But the reason I had to use so many different divs was because it was the only way I could get one hotel's header to start below the end of the last hotel's photo instead of starting below the end of the last hotel's text (which sometimes is shorter than the photo). This is basically the same problem I'm having in beachinfo (always on IE, only on Mozilla if I try to get rid of the table). http://www.anandatour.com.cn/test/hotel.html Hey, this one actually works in both browsers! Yay! And it looks cool too. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
