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General discussion

Forum pages off-center?

Jan 11, 2005 7:33AM PST

Starting this afternoon, the center part of the page has shifted to the right. It does not align in the center as I assume it should.

Jmichaels

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I noticed that too...
Jan 11, 2005 8:26AM PST

Instead of having a 1/2" yellow margin on the left. I now have almost a 2" column. Both in IE6 and Opera. Had to re-position the panel placement to the right and stick the panel selector to up top in Opera to get a full window. Still off center. Sad

George

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It won't last because if you look
Jan 11, 2005 8:35AM PST

closer the ads have disappeared which explains the yellow space. LOL.

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In other words..
Jan 11, 2005 8:56AM PST

what you are saying Roddy. Without the ads the page jumps to the right after loading, displaying the 2" yellow column on the left. Thats what mine does anyway.

George

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As near as I can tell
Jan 11, 2005 9:23AM PST

it centered it without the ads. I have the same amount of yellow on the right as I do on the left now and it looks weird because it was never like that until the ads disappeared today. Before that, at least on my computer, the page was on the left and the ads were on the right but I didn't see them unless I scrolled the bar. I have no idea what they are doing to it. There were no anouncements made that I saw anywhere. Your guess is as good as mine George.

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Yes, it is weird..
Jan 11, 2005 10:54AM PST

Thanks Rod. At least now I know its not My OS. Hope they are not planning on putting Ads down both sides. Be like riding down the Las Vegas strip Sad

George

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(NT) (NT) Me too George LOL.
Jan 11, 2005 11:30AM PST
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(NT) (NT) Same thing for me.
Jan 12, 2005 6:56AM PST
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Looks like CNET Reviews removed the right hand column...
Jan 12, 2005 8:52AM PST

in house ad for the Holiday shopping countdown.

-Lee

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Back to HTML School....
Jan 12, 2005 10:02AM PST

HTML 101 for Cnet's web designers. The pages look horrible as they are now. And for how many days so far?

Jmichaels

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mine is slightly to the left
Jan 14, 2005 6:39PM PST

with the monitor setup for 1024x768....

is it possible that your setup is 1280x1024? cos that REALLY makes a difference Sad


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Shouldn't matter...
Jan 14, 2005 8:16PM PST

I'm at 800x600, but the centre column should still appear centered, regardless of your monitor resolution. That is, if the coding is written that way.

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i agree
Jan 14, 2005 9:45PM PST

but if i go to 800x600 i have 4" of scroll bar at the bottom of the screen Sad and a HUGE expanse of yellow on the left...

so i use 1024 x 768 and a larger font, maybe you could try it?


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Yes, I've tried it, Jonah...
Jan 14, 2005 10:12PM PST

...and it makes it better, but that's just a quick fix for one faulty site.

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(NT) (NT) Just noticed it's back to normal.
Jan 16, 2005 9:12PM PST
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(NT) (NT) Yep, sho nuf is, ?" yellow left & right, excellent. :-
Jan 17, 2005 6:43AM PST
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Yup. And now Netscape is off-center again
Jan 20, 2005 4:34PM PST

. . .so that my left margin is off the page, beyond the range of the slider bar. What is it about Netscape that makes it do that when IE doesn't?

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