Is my site working for you?

blog(s) June 3rd, 2008

A reader recently brought it to my attention that the site is not displaying properly in his Firefox and Explorer browsers. Does it look ok to you? For him, the far right sidebar was not being displayed properly, but was showing up beneath the posts.

This happens for me if I resize my browser to be smaller…. then the sidebars don’t fit and they try to fit below the posts instead. If this happens for you, try resizing your browser to maximum. If that doesn’t work, are you using a small monitor? I believe my monitor is a 17″ and this shows up fine.

I think I need to know more php code in order to prevent my sidebars from moving down like that. Is this the difference between fluid and fixed sidebars? Or is it just the firefox browser? Because my firefox browser also tries to rearrange content in the window when you make the browser smaller. I’d appreciate anyone’s feedback if you know about php and/or this browser resizing issue.

And please let me know if you are having other browser/viewing problems with my blog. I’d like to know how to fix it if it’s something on my end. Thanks very much for all your feedback!

6 Comments to “Is my site working for you?”

Pushing30 | June 4th, 2008 at 3:40 am

Hey, the site looks great! I use firefox and there is no problem with the sidebars at all. It must be the user settings for that particular viewer.
MoneyEnergy | June 4th, 2008 at 3:57 am

thanks! Good to know. I’ll see if I hear about it from anyone else.
RealWebToday.com | June 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Looks good to me .. running IE 7 on an XP box.
Sean | June 5th, 2008 at 12:21 am

Great energetic design at fullscreen in IE and FF.

Hmm… okay, now I see what they mean. The third columns “drops down” at maybe 900(?) pixels. Then, at smaller window sizes, the right columns stay the same and “scrunch up” the main column until it is only a word or two per line.
MoneyEnergy | June 5th, 2008 at 4:32 am

RealWeb, Sean - thanks.

I think the problem must be the “fluid columns,” but I’m not sure how to fix this.

Also, is it very common to even have monitors that small anymore (less than 900px wide?). I don’t keep up on monitor specs but I’m guessing that if I was able to afford this one (I’m usually on the tail end of adopting new models etc.)… probably most people have at least this size of monitor.
Sean | June 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am

You probably don’t have to worry what happens at the smallest extreme, as much as the 3rd column at ~900px. I’m guessing even if most monitors are larger, some people might not have their browser window maximized.

Also need content on the “Books I’ve Read” page. :-)