Hi,

I don't have access to the CSS on my branded site. Can someone in the design team see why the red bar which cuts through the lovely lady on the front of site gets shunted down in IE8. As more and more surfers switch to IE8 this is going to be a bit more of an issue.



Cheers,

Phil

Hi Phil,

Thank you for pointing out - we will work on this.

Regards,

Thanks Lisa. IE8 seems to mess up a lot of sites.

Back to work so soon? You should be resting with the bairn!

Lots of work - but of course doing less hours for a couple of months.

I was trying to avoid installing IE8 but i think i better check out my sites just incase.

Thanks for the info Mrplough.

No problem Robert. As much as I hate IE8, nearly 10% of surfers are using it already, so it pays to check.

These new fangled tableless designs don't seem to be so universally compatible as hoped. Tables for the win! The css I have on one non-dating site is over 2000 lines of code long, it's crazy!

Congrats Lisa, boy or girl? Our second is due on 23rd December, it's going to be an interesting xmas this year.

I think it's more the browser developers are not willing to stick to the standard, it's probably best to stick with Transitional and tables as that seems to be easier and more compatible across many of them.

Congrats on the littleone Lisa, and ofcourse to you Mrplough in December.

The new browser design is in preperqtion for WEB2 where you will be able to chat and interact on all web pages

Thanks Robert!

Being a senior web designer myself I am fully aware of the problems different browsers can cause. IE8 strangely enough seems to show up flaws in code where they would have handled incorrectly in IE7 but actually meant they were displayed correctly! For instance, if widths or height attributes aren't applied to certain elements they may default to 100% and would create an undesirable effect. IE7 wouldn't worry itself if the attributes weren't there and display it seemingly correct, whereas IE8 DOES expect them.

Having the extra attributes and correct code ensures you have most browsers catered for, which might also be fussy about strict code. This also applies to TABLE based layouts which are not recommended. Pure CSS layouts maybe harder to cope with initially (for page builders) but with the proper templates and guidance they are correct way to do things. Take a look at BBC, Microsoft and other large organisational websites and you will see their code uses this very same CSS layout.

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Tony

One thing I am trying to find out but had no answers yet is the member blocks code it generates. I'm keen to edit this as it uses tables and styles which I prefer not to use. As the code is seemingly already generated do we have any editing options for it?

I know I can rewrite the CSS in my front page code to overwrite what styles are being generated but updating the tables code and replacing it with divs, p tags etc seems more tricky.

Anyone else had this problem or knows of a solution...?

Hiya,

In terms of the front page CSS - you can edit it in Front page layout option as it's an inline CSS for this page.

Unfortunately you cannot edit member block HTML and keep it dynamic at the moment.

Regards,