[SOLVED] SIte looks fine in FF, Safari...Problems IE

Just a quick clarification before I open GoLive and and try to implement DAB's recommendation: I DO have IE6, that's how I've known my site looks like poo in it every step of the way. At 12:30a -ish last night I did not have ACCESS to IE6 b/c it is in another room in my house where someone was sleeping, and I did not want to fire up the cpu right next to their face to test my page. And DAB, thank you for your suggestion to DL it. I haven't tried the link yet, but I run a Mac OS X 10.39, will IE (from the above link) run on my cpu without bootcamp or virtual pc?

Also, did see my page on IE6 first thing this morning, and D^MN! So close, I can taste it! Looking at it, DAB, I did ponder wheter it was a margin issue that pushes my light orange content boxes down - really thinking your advice will help. But why change the wrapper.gif width? Can't I just leave it 850px, and re-calc my margins & padding instead? Might this work to bring the Light Orange content boxes back into place at top where they belong? I'm going to try this before I fire up Illustrator again (although resizing .gifs really takes no time what so ever, I just have spent too much time resizine/recreating gif's for this site already...want to avoid even one more change if possible, but if i'ts ineveitable: oh well). Also, I feel 850px was pushing it on a fixed width for older monitors, won't 870px just be too big for smaller screens? Everything I've read (and I am a newbie) says to try to keep width about 720ish...Not true?

Anyways, I'm going to try out your recos, DAB, and will upload page when complete.

Thanks,

Craig

Site upladed. Looks great at my end - even on IE6. Couple cosmetic issues (ie. blue margin between left border & Sidebar, Sidebar & Content Boxes, and Content Boxes and right border are uneven are not evenly spaced), but at this point I don't care much...I'm moving on and adding content. Maybe I'll come back and tweak this but at them moment, each change I make in the margin/padding of the above mentioned div's breaks something else in the site. "Good Enough" is done as far as I'm concerned at this point.

Unfortunately, b/c I don't actually keep track of my tweaks & edits to my CSS as I'm making them, I'm not exactly sure which change "fixed" the problem(s). But I do know it eventually came down to Margin & Padding changes in the end. Seemingly (this is just a guess on my part though), the combination of my margin, padding, and various elements' fixed widths caused my content to "fall" below my sidebar. I brought the sum of these variables below 850px (less than 100%) and my content moved in line with my sidebar. As for the rounded corner problems I had, I THINK it was a case of not allowing enough padding to let the corner img show completely (or in some cases too much padding showed more bg of the img). I went wth DAB's reco and recreated top and bottom img's for each box as I no longer need the boxes to scale left/right. Thanks DAB!

If anyone sees any problems w/ the layout in ANY browser, especially IE6 when compared to FF, please point them out to me. I'm sure I am still missing a couple. But in my opinion it looks good enough to move on with and start adding links and content.

Thanks so much for everyone's assistance. I think I learned more in the past couple days, than in the past 2 years of fiddling around by myself...unless I don't see some glaring eror then I'll just cry

Craig

Looks good to me in FF, IE6, IE7, OPERA, NETSCAPE.

looks like its sorted.

Pat

Hello all,

I've fixed my problem. Thanks for all your help. How do I **SOLVE** this thread? I've noticed other threads say **SOLVED** but don't see how to do this.

Thanks guys/girls. I also have another question posted for a new site I am laying out.

Craig