(Providence, RI): I’m in this lovely city for meetings with professors who conduct community-based research. Meanwhile, CIRCLE has entered the 21st century by rebuilding our website so that it runs off a database and is no longer simply a set of hand-built html web pages. Every document that we have published is now entry in the database, and it’s much easier to find things. Lacking a budget for web design, we did this with in-house staff time (thank you, colleagues) and very cheap WordPress software. WordPress was built for bloggers but is flexible. In the place of blog entries, we enter working papers, fact sheets, press releases, and the like.
The new site looks great, but it’s not totally Firefox compliant. The right column extends out of the window and there is a gap between the right and middle columns.
There are big problems with the CSS on the site. If I view the front page at 1280 x 800 the right sidebar covers up part of the body. I looked at it using Firebug, and I see two errors: Warning: Error in parsing value for property ‘width’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/themes/tiga-06/style.css
Line: 109 and Warning: Error in parsing value for property ‘position’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/themes/tiga-06/style.css
Line: 130
Peter, I’m not sure what the webmaster did, but it is now worse than before. In Firefox the main body is off of the screen to the left, and in internet explorer the right sidebar now gets buried under the main text…