simple html question

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:58 pm

simple html question for you gurus out there:

I just started a blog at http://chaiguys.blogspot.com and
I can't seem to align my sidebar to right. I have some links and a
flickr photo badge and I'm not sure how to move them over( See how everything is all crowded together?)

I've tried adding <right> </right> tags in various places as well as using
<align=right> so far no luck (could it be that I have no idea what I'm doing?) I've searched around various forums for answers and I can't find anything. I'm tired of trial and error as I've spent waaayyy too much time on this project today. Please help!

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:21 pm

Well comparing your blog to my blog I see this difference:
Yours has a max sidbar width of 70px

/* Content
----------------------------------------------- */
@media all {
#content {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:left;
}
#main {
width:500px;
float:left;
}
#sidebar {
width:70px;
float:right;

Mine has a sidebar width of 220px:

/* Content
----------------------------------------------- */
#content {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:left;
}
#main {
width:410px;
float:left;
}
#sidebar {
width:220px;
float:right;
}

Also you may want use <center> </center> on the text in your header
besides that it looks great in Firefox! needs help in IE but shit I frig mine up all the time so it is nice to see a clean one.

Also I can not post any pictures of wider than 400px or kicks sidebar to bottom
looks like that is why the made your center wider? sidebar thinner? But still we both have width set to 660 so you have wiggle room to make the sidebar much wider.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:34 pm

what he said. (rockdad beat me to it. I was doing the same thing on my www.playacast.blogspot.com. )

Rock is fast wit them fingers.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:50 pm

And if that dont work for you then say so.

Question though, do either of you guys use front page or word to edit your blog?

The software is available. (helps me with my spellcheck.)

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:58 pm

DVD Burner wrote:And if that dont work for you then say so.

Question though, do either of you guys use front page or word to edit your blog?

The software is available. (helps me with my spellcheck.)

Sometimes Word or really most of the time Word for spellcheck do not use Word html features much.

For website building I use Netobjects fusion 8 but they are up to ver 9 now

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:26 pm

Thanks for the help guys, but I don't think it worked, or I'm not doing something right. I changed the values to those suggested, but still nothing. Any other ideas? Isn't there an align right command that I can use?

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:32 pm

Chai Guy wrote: I can't seem to align my sidebar to right. I have some links and a
flickr photo badge and I'm not sure how to move them over( See how everything is all crowded together?)

What are you viewing your blog in? In Safari, it's not right aligned, and in FireFox, the links are, but the flickr badge is not.

I believe what you're trying to accomplish is done with this excerpt:

<div id="sidebar"><div id="sidebar2">
<h2 class="sidebar-title">Links</h2>

I've moved the <div id="sidebar"><div id="sidebar2"> to below the end of the main stuff and before the Links title. But that only works in FireFox, not Safari.

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:37 pm

first thing I would try in the /*content---...*/ section by taking some off the #main width and add it to #sidebar width, if that does not do it then refer to the above diagram to start explicitly setting things like padding/width/boarder/margin.

ed: heh... i missed what phil posted.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:39 am

Man, That is such a long way around doing things. Why do people like messing with the code when there are so many cool tools out there that make it soooo much easier?

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:16 am

maybe because its much easier to change something simple like padding=5, than to... search for a tool, find a site, register and download, install, learn to use, then upload the changes?

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:26 am

A little bit o' learnin somethin new aint hurt nobody.

I guess it depends on what you want to do in the end. The quickest one is diffrent for everyone.

Whatever flips your drift best.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:52 am

Thanks for the help everyone! Much appreciated!

Phil, that really did the trick! Extra chai for you on the playa this year!

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:48 pm

DVD Burner wrote:Man, That is such a long way around doing things. Why do people like messing with the code when there are so many cool tools out there that make it soooo much easier?

Good job Phil soon as I saw your post i knew you were on to something!
DVD Burner do you know of any Blogger WYSIWG tools? Would love to know about it...

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:54 pm

Rockdad wrote: DVD Burner do you know of any Blogger WYSIWG tools? Would love to know about it...

I've been usine the "Blogger for word" pluggin and it's pretty cool if you use word or front page. office xp not 2000. Anything before xp is insane. Any wysiwg program is good like the latest Dreamweaver mx. Part of my Blog is multiple blogs. Some of my blogs are hosted with my servers so most of the time I just ftp certain parts which makes things much easier. I can use any wysiwyg I want.

I also use VB and C# from Microsoft sometimes. I use multiple programs because there are things that dreamweaver does that front page does not do as well and there are cool plugins for frontpage that are not made for dreamweaver.

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:02 pm

DVD Burner wrote:
Rockdad wrote: DVD Burner do you know of any Blogger WYSIWG tools? Would love to know about it...
I've been usine the "Blogger for word" pluggin and it's pretty cool if you use word or front page. office xp not 2000. Anything before xp is insane. Any wysiwg program is good like the latest Dreamweaver mx. Part of my Blog is multiple blogs. Some of my blogs are hosted with my servers so most of the time I just ftp certain parts which makes things much easier. I can use any wysiwyg I want.

I also use VB and C# from Microsoft sometimes.

Yeah got the word plugin I thought you might of known a way to FTP to Blogger using a WYSIWYG Thanks.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:03 pm

do you mean FTP programs?

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:10 pm

No I got those I ment can you FTP to the blogger servers instead of the regular wysiwyg interface they supply?

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:16 pm

Rockdad wrote:No I got those I ment can you FTP to the blogger servers instead of the regular wysiwyg interface they supply?

I'm not sure. I know that you can set your own server through them and ftp to that server. I'm not sure that they have their own server you can ftp to but dont quote me on that.

I'll check that out in a bit.

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:20 pm

It just kinda occured to me how cool that would be because of this thread I will have to look into later too.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:34 pm

ChaiGuy tell me you don't live in Warner Springs, you bastard.

Paradise, huh?

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:37 pm

Well, right now I am currently living in Carson City, but I will be hiking through Warner Springs and plan to spend the night there. I've heard it's beautiful.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:05 am

Rockdad wrote: DVD Burner do you know of any Blogger WYSIWG tools? Would love to know about it...

you know, when you first asked this question I forgot I created a thread just for this a long time ago

"The really got it going on" thread was created for and about things of and for burners.

Btw, It took me forever to find the really got it going on thread. I found it ironically by typing in the search "goin on".just so you know.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:39 am

Ok, after going through that thread, it's a lot of stuff to go through.
This site has some cool stuff on it: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=appindex ... 78453.html

Then you can also always go to http://sourceforge.net/index.php

bringer · Post by **bringer** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:21 pm

I also have an HTML question.

I want to send out an email that is basically just an image with hotspots.
I want the recievers of this email to see the picture first (or whatever message their email gives them to let them know there was a picture there), and not code.

Any ideas?

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:25 pm

bringer wrote:I also have an HTML question.

I want to send out an email that is basically just an image with hotspots.
I want the recievers of this email to see the picture first (or whatever message their email gives them to let them know there was a picture there), and not code.

Any ideas?

EMail will have to be rich formatting...i.e.: HTML

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