Pixelpost Template problems - PHP/CSS helpers needed

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Jimmy_Lemon

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Wondering if anyone can help, since I moved my photoblog from www.jimmylemon.co.uk to www.jimmylemon.co.uk/blog I had had an issue with certain photos (or more precisely the descriptions) buggering up the template I am using with Pixelpost.

For example - http://www.jimmylemon.co.uk/blog/index.php?showimage=143 - When the description is fairly long the description coloumn seems to shrink in width, which in turn reveals the black space at the bottom of the photo and generally looks crap....I think it is related to the length of the description, but I can't be sure. This one - http://www.jimmylemon.co.uk/blog/index.php?showimage=21 - posted a long time before the move of the blog is still displaying fine, despite the fair amount of text.

...so yeah, anyone got any ideas? have already messed about the with the CSS and the section causing my grief seems to be called .sidecol and supposedly set to 250px....so yeah, I am stumped...HELP! :help:
 
Sorry don't know the answer but I usually find using an addon in firefox called web developer really useful as you can edit the css 'live' so you can see what changes and also the highlighting of divs etc can be invaluable.


Cheers
Ian
 
Ian_H said:
Sorry don't know the answer but I usually find using an addon in firefox called web developer really useful as you can edit the css 'live' so you can see what changes and also the highlighting of divs etc can be invaluable.


Cheers
Ian
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Thanks, I have been using that for a while, and probably because I am not using it right, it isn't being too helpful. I can't actually find anything to try altering 'live' to make the changes, apart from useless padding bits and bobs.
 
i've been through the source code of both pages and the code seems to be fine.
Have you tried removing a few paragraphs of text and see if that fixes the issue?

If it does then it is related to the length of the text, if it doesn't then it moves us onto the next set of problems that it could be.
 
evilonion said:
i've been through the source code of both pages and the code seems to be fine.
Have you tried removing a few paragraphs of text and see if that fixes the issue?

If it does then it is related to the length of the text, if it doesn't then it moves us onto the next set of problems that it could be.
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I will give that a go with my next blog entry, I am also going to try posting directly in pixelpost rather than through the Lightroom plugin.

GarynLea said:
Not too sure Tom but I just loaded your base addy into http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator and it came up with a fair few errors that may help to sort out your problem ;)
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I am only seeing a few warning for the blog page on there, and they only seem to be colour warnings.
 
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