Speaking of new digs – I need help!
How do you like this template? Quick question though for any web gurus out there: Why is it when I put something in a blockquote tag, the second paragraph and subsequent paragraphs are indented. Like this:
Blockquote
Blockquote
Blockquote
I only used one block quote tag.
One more question: I wanted to add a border around blockquotes so I added this to my stylesheet:
blockquote {text-align: justify; border: 2 dotted #384B55;}
But it’s not working. Any body know?
Update: One more, look at the links at the right. Some are indented and some aren’t. It’s a p class or p linktitle thing, I think.
January 17th, 2004 at 1:43 am
From what I’ve seen:
1)Are you using Movable Type’s option to convert line feeds or are you manually doing stuff? The last line within your blockquote has the at after the which it shouldn’t.
2)In terms of the blockquote, try making it border:2px dotted
Hope that helps
January 17th, 2004 at 2:58 am
Wow. Is this the right place?
Not sure about the indentions; haven’t seen that before.
January 17th, 2004 at 11:01 am
For the border, you’ll need to specify units (2em instead of just 2) or use the terms thin, medium or thick. That’ll fix that.
Here’s a good reference:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/box/border.html
That’s a pretty good site for CSS in general.
I ran the rest of your stylesheet through the W3 CSS validator and it all checked out OK, so you’re looking good there.
As far as the indented blockquote stuff, Manish is right. Your default p style has indents and margins and stuff. I noticed that when you’re manually creating p tags you’re negating that by bydefining the style inside the p tag. When MovableType is inserting the p tags automatically, it isn’t negating the margins.
I’d re-think having the p tag indented. Negating it is putting a lot of cruft into the code. Instead, put a div tag around your blog posts, and define that div to have the indent.
So for instance define a blogpost class in your stylesheet:
.blogpost (margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;)
The period in front of it means it’s a class. Then put this at the top of your blog post template:
<div class=”blogpost”>
and then a <div>. at the bottom of the post to close it. Note that when you invoke the blogpost class in your document you don’t put the period in front of the class name.
January 17th, 2004 at 11:47 am
I like the new style. Its a little “cleaner” and easier to find links. Are you going to put your old banner back up?
January 17th, 2004 at 1:20 pm
Also looking at the links at the right, the “style=” bit within the p tag is different for the links that are indented versus the links that are not..you probably shouldn’t have the “style=” part within the p tag and have something in your stylesheet dealing with how you want “linktitle” to be displayed. That way, if you change your mind, you can make the change in one place and it will cascade to all of your links.
January 17th, 2004 at 9:55 pm
Testing!
January 17th, 2004 at 9:57 pm
testing number 2.
January 18th, 2004 at 12:41 am
I don’t like pages where the type face changes when I mouse over active text. It makes scrolling through text distracting, and it leads so some weird jumpy effects as I move the cursor around the page.
(Sometimes, on links where there is a lot of active text, the effect changes the width of the link text to the point that it changes the way text flows from line to line. This is unacceptably distracting.)
January 18th, 2004 at 10:25 am
Ah. Good point. Next rebuild I’ll get rid of that.
January 18th, 2004 at 12:33 pm
Looks nice and clean, but I liked the old banner, too. It’ll look great when all the tweaks are done.
January 19th, 2004 at 12:54 am
Yep, I agree with other folks. Nice and clean, but I always thought your graphic was very individualistic. The new place is pretty but a little too sterile – like you haven’t moved in yet.