Tuneful Tuesday: The Crow
My blog is at least legible in all three browers now (but trust me, it’s prettiest in Safari) so I’m moving on ahead and will continue to work on it sporadically (please let me know if you’re still seeing the heavy black border around the entries — it’s not supposed to be there!!! And let me know what browser/operating sytem you’re on, ‘kay?)
Jane has only one song on the soundtrack for The Crow but what a song it is! I’ve never seen the movie but I can only hope it’s as good as Jane writes, although I’m doubtful. Yesterday I had a not-so-good day. In fact I had a bad, tearful, “oh dear god, I can’t go on!” kind of overly dramatic wretched day. I worked out to see if the endorphins might help (not so much) and cooled down to this song, which set me to crying, which made me feel a tiny itsy-bit better.
“It Can’t Rain All the Time,” our last Jane song. Enjoy.
i’m still seeing the heavy black border. i’m using opera with a windows xp OS. if you need a screen shot, let me know
the blog is legible, though, and that’s all that counts.
Still seeing the heavy black border, I’m using Explorer. But, obviously, can read the text.
The culprit is your stylesheets, and the way different browsers “cascade” them. Your HTML document (index.html) says the body bg of the pale light blue-green color, whereas the top of the stylesheet says background:#FFF (white) Depending on which your browser chooses to interpret as the final absolute answer on how to render your page, you’ll either see the page as you intended or with a white background. You have two options- 1, move the bgcolor and image background from your main HTML file to the stylesheets, or 2- delete the “background” information from the “body” section of the stylesheet.
That should fix the “white background” problem, at least, and should make your background image visible. Also- just a nitpick, you may want to delete the linebreak that is in your body tag in the HTML file–it can cause issues on some weak browsers.
The black border is most likely a result of the content not filling its container–which most often happens on MSIE. I’d try adding margin:0; to the .blogbody part of your stylesheet.
Note: I haven’t had enough coffee this morning, and my brain’s currently focused on PHP, so I reserve the right to be wrong.
If what I suggested doesn’t fix it, I can always take another look later, just let me know.
Oh- one last thing. Your text is currently all centered–not sure if that’s what you want. This can probably be fixed by adding a text-align:left; to the .blogbody portion of your stylesheet.
No guarantees that this won’t mess up other stuff, though. The different portions of your stylesheet have some funky interaction going on.
I am still seeing the black border around entries I am using Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633IC, on windows xp professional.
Well, The Crow is one of those movies that you have to see at a certain point in your goth/punk/dark-n-dreary life. I loved it because I loved Brandon Lee. He was so beautiful and he could do kung-fu or whatever it was he was doing that was so beautiful it looked as good as Gene Kelly dancing. None of his movies were what you’d call deep or well-written, but he had something special. (And yeah, I’ve seen all his movies, including a really REALLY bad Australian film he did.)
Looks nice. What do you mean by “all three” browsers, though? *grin*
I playtest with IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Lynx, and sometimes pester folks using Amaya, Firebird, Konqueror, and Safari to take a look. Not to mention various versions of each displaying differenty. Glad you did it; sorry I couldn’t've been of more help! *merrygrin*
(and on Mac OS 9x, XP Home, XP Pro, Windows 2000, mostly.)
OK, just beeing sillygeek now. Back to work, me!