Facelift
I've finally got around to designing my own templates for this site, instead of just tinkering mildly with the supplied one. I'm fairly pleased with how it looks, but of course that doesn't guarantee that anyone else will be, or that it will look good on someone else's computer. So if anything looks weird, or [especially] is hard to read, please let me know, and if possible please mention what browser & operating system you're using.
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I like it!
When I first checked it out, it looked pretty bad, but that was because I was looking at it using Safari on a Mac. When I switched to Firefox and IE, your site looked nice. My own site looks bad on IE.It would be nice if all these browsers were such as to provide reasonably similar results!
The fact that so few people are like me using Safari on a Mac means that you don't really need to make changes.
Mano: that's odd, because being a Mac user myself I was able to test it on Safari. While I like the way Firefox renders the type better, it looks pretty similar on either browser on my machine. Could you describe the badness?
I would like to have the site look at least passable on every browser if I can....
I second your frustration with browsers not producing consistent results. I think this is what drives so many web designers from a graphic design background (where there is extensive standard process to keep printed products uniform) to use Flash for everything - it gives them that precise control and consistency that html won't.
On Safari (I am using v 2.0.3), there are two vertical blue bands on each side; the words homepage, categories, rss are missing, with only the ~ present; the heading is not in a box.
The color scheme is different: the background color is white, the right column words are in red, and the Eldan Goldenberg.,, at the top is in black.
What the Safari version looks like is the old, standard template, with some errors thrown in.
I am using Mac OS X 10.4.6, if that helps.
Wow, that's very odd. Thanks for the detailed description - it's allowed me to at least make an educated guess at what's going on, and why I'm not seeing the same thing.
I think that Safari on your computer has cached the old stylesheet, even though it's loaded the new html pages. The trouble is that although I changed the stylesheet more than the html, I did also do enough to the html that it will no longer make sense with the old stylesheet, hence it now looking rubbish instead of just looking like the old template, which was decent looking and nice and clear to read. Meanwhile, I've disabled the cache on my own copy of Safari, because I only use it to check sites that I have modified, so I'm seeing the new stylesheet applied.
If I'm right, then either this will fix itself after a few days because your copy of Safari will 'notice' that there's a new stylesheet, or you can fix it (and test my hypothesis) by manually clearing the browser cache.
Ok, it looks fine now on Safari! I did not do anything, just refreshed the page.
I also didn't change anything, so this seems to support the caching hypothesis.