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September 04, 2004

MovableType Question

If you're not currently messing around with your own MovableType blog at the moment, this is a skippable entry.

Specifically, I'm at my wit's end about how to fix the fairly obvious differences between the way my banner appears at the top of the main blog page:

Mainpage.gif

And the way it appears (ugly and font-mangled) at the head of the individual entries:

Detailpage.gif

Any hints or tips would be very much appreciated!

Posted by Nicholas at September 4, 2004 11:42 PM
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Howdy. Nice hint. Subtle. Here's how to fix this:
  1. Get your ass to Indigo or Chapters.
  2. You're a tech writer, so you're probably going to want to go to Indigo, you metrosexual you.
  3. Follow the odor to the Geek Section.
  4. No, not that odor – that's the model railroading section at the magazine racks. Turn left. Then right.
  5. Find the O'Reilly book with the cutest, fuzziest animal on the cover.
  6. Don't buy that one. That's a UNIX book. Grab the book next to it, the one with the sea urchin egg case on the cover. That's the CSS book.
  7. Reward yourself with a hippy dippy frappy latté.
  8. Go buy the book. Take it home. Open it. Look up "How come my effing stylesheet does not work on two pages that are essentially the same? I mean, like, come on, what the f@ck?"
Ok, I can see that I lost you at the part about the train magazines. Sorry about that. I made some changes to your Stylesheet and Individual Entry Archive templates. I could not find why these thing were not working properly – they looked like they should to me. Dunno. So I just made these changes:
  • To the Stylesheet, I added a new style. See the very end of the template.
  • To the Individual Entry Archive, I made a change to the banner div. Search fo "description" and you'll find it.
Hope this helps. Let me know if it works on your end. Posted by: Jon at September 5, 2004 06:40 PM
Hey, that looks like it worked. Kewl! Posted by: Some Guy at September 6, 2004 01:37 AM
Thanks very much Jon, that really does look like the problem has been resolved (at least in IE and in Opera — I'll try it in Netscrape tomorrow). Posted by: Nicholas at September 6, 2004 11:37 AM


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