Internet Explorer doesn’t recognise page width

Oh by the way – just in case you were wondering – YES I am now building my parents website!!!  Thats what the image galleries are for.

Wheeeeee! I am sooooo pleased with it.

The only thing that is still bothering me is that I have created it all on a Mac and I have not really thoroughly tested it on Internet Explorer so I am not sure exactly how it works.

I do know that there is a problem with the page width. What I want is for the page width to be fixed at 800 pixels wide. I decided that this would be the best option for viewing as I would like to keep lines of text short enough to be interesting and readable.

To fix the page width I changed a line in the layout.css file so that it now reads

But the problem is that Internet Explorer doesn’t seem to recognise this. Well I have only tested it on IE6 and it definitely didn’t work on that   😦

I have read up quite a bit about it (here is a good blog post I read) and there are ways to fix it but I reckon it will take a bit of testing and so I have taken the plunge and I am going to buy a Dell laptop so that I can see what things are like from both sides and also coz I want a laptop.

Its 2010 now, I really do think I should purchase a new computer  😀

Reading About Drupal

Well Christmas is over now and its time to get back to the challenge!

Christmas day was good apart from the hayfever (New Zealand doesn’t get a white Christmas!)  We ate a lot and sat about so now I am feeling ready to hit it hard and get his website conquered!

It was quite good to have a break and then to look at it with fresh eyes and a new sense of vigour.

I couldn’t decide whether to try to get the theme to look how I want it to or to get the site to work how I want it to and then to worry about how it looks later. I am still not really sure but I have decide to get the content and the functionality all sorted out first because I am not really 10% sure how it should look.

Also as I am creating a website for my boyfriend as this test site, then I fugure that he may have some ideas of how he would like it to look and I will not be able to deal with those comments until I have the site in better working order.

So I am working through the tutorials at Learn By The Drop, which have really helped me and also made me feel like I am still relaxing a bit coz its kinda like watching tv.

I think what I have to figure out is what I would like on the front page and then decide whether we would like to try selling from the site as that will add in another whole load of things I need to think about and I would rather do it now than do it later when the site looks great and it would be a hassle to add anything.

So I am looking through Google to see how others have created e-commerce sites with Drupal and also I have been looking out photos and content for the site coz it won’t be much of a site if there isn’t anything on it!

Feeling quite relaxed as I am not really doing anything difficult right now. I know it will get bad again tho as soon as I start to actually DO SOMETHING and stop reading… 😀 he he