September 10, 2004

Help, Mt's got me and I can't get up!

Helen advised me to paste my post here:


As you may know, I was - amazingly - allowed to join the hallowed ranks of Munuvia last month. In the meantime, we have had birthdays and 3000 miles on the van and all sorts of other distractions (most good, some not so much).

Today at lunch, I sat down and rolled up my sleeves and said to myself - "Self? It's time to learn MT 2.x and get this website up and roaring"

Here's the progress:
- I have confirmed that Jennifer, at Scriptygoddess, is indeed, a goddess
- Likewise Movable Style
- I have discovered that 12 Tylenols do not a lunch make
- I made a banner heading... THAT I HATE

This shouldn't be so hard, right? I want a template like the one I have now - a centered table. Like everday stranger or drunken bee. 2 columns - 1 for posts and 1 for stuff. But not spanning the whole page.

Anybody? Please?

My gratitude awaits....

Posted by Elizabeth at September 10, 2004 12:24 AM
Comments
#1

Hi Elizabeth.

Basically, the default MT styles specify the widths of columns as percentages of the browser window. If you use numbers of pixels rather than percentages, you'll get a fixed width like the two you link to.

In your stylesheet, try specifying, say, 200px for the sidebar and 400px for the main column widths.

Posted by Pixy Misa at September 10, 2004 12:30 AM
#2

Try this for your new site... it's your old CSS with the class names reworked to fit our installation default... we'll have to tweak it out some more, but this will get you started for now... we'll have to do some stuff with your Main Index after we get the kinks worked out here...

Here it is:

body
{
background-image: url(http://www.drunkenbee.com/mt-static/images/img_36.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color:transparent;
border-style: none;
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#000;
font-size:11px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:16px;
}

#content
{
width: 675px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: auto;
margin-bottom: auto;
text-align: left;
background-color: #C7E19E;
}

A { color: #004E87; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
A:link { color: #004E87; }
A:visited { color: #004E87; }
A:active { color: #004E87; }
A:hover { color: #004E87; }

h1 {font-family: "verdana"; font-size:medium;}
h2 {font-family:"geneva"; font-size: 12px;}

#banner
{
width: 675px;
height: 95px;
border: 0px;
background-color: #C7E19E;
}


#blog
{
margin-top: 20px;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
background-color:#fff;
float: right;
width: 340px;
padding : 10px 20px 10px 20px;

}

#straightup
{
background-color:#ECECEC;
margin-top: 5 px;
margin-right: 5 px;
margin-bottom: 5 px;
margin-left: 5 px;
}

#links
{
width: 227px;
height: auto;
background-color: #C7E19E;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 10px 5px 5px 5px;
float: left;
}

#sidebarbottom
{

border: 1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: #004E87;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

.sidetitle
{
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

.side
{
font-family: verdana, arial sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
text-align: left;
}

#bottom
{
width: 675px;
height: 90px;
background-image: url(http://www.drunkenbee.com/mt-static/images/img_97.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
}

.logo
{
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}

.archivetitle
{
font-family: "geneva", "verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #666666;
line-height:16px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #005796;
padding-bottom: 8px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

.title
{
font-family: geneva, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight:bold;
color: #004E87;
line-height:16px;
}

.date {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #666666;
}

.posted {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #666666;
}

.license{
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10 px;
color: #044476
}

.comments-body
{
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#666;
font-size:10px;
font-weight:normal;
background:#FFF;
line-height:140%;
padding-bottom:10px;
padding-top:10px;
border-bottom:1px dotted #999;
}

.comments-post {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#666;
font-size:10 px;
font-weight:normal;
background:#FFF;
}

.comments-head {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size:11 px;
color: #666;
border-bottom:1px solid #999;
margin-top:20px;
font-weight:bold;
background:#FFF;
}

#banner-commentspop {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#FFF;
font-size:large;
font-weight:bold;
border-left:1px solid #FFF;
border-right:1px solid #FFF;
border-top:1px solid #FFF;
background:#003366;
padding-left:15px;
padding-right:15px;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}


Posted by Madfish Willie at September 10, 2004 05:17 PM
#3

Both are good suggestions. I think I'd go higher than 340 pixels for the blog column.

Posted by Jim at September 11, 2004 01:46 AM
#4

Sweet talk Pixy into setting me up to access your tempalates and rebuild, and I'll make your site look like your old site... I can probably fo that on Sunday.

Posted by Madfish Willie at September 11, 2004 04:22 AM
#5

Sweetie, I've asked my fabulous web designer if they are interested in helping you out and designing your blog. Is that of interest?

Posted by Helen at September 11, 2004 10:16 AM
#6

Dear MadFish (or is it Mr. Willie?), Jim, Andrew -
Thank you so much for you suggestions. Madfish - if I had seen your offer, wow, let me just say that there is about 100 hours of my life I will never get back.

I downloaded a CSS editor from Tucows and am beating some knowledge into my head. It's slow going. I got a thick head.

Thank you thank you thank you for the code and help.

And?

Thank you!

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