Oh, Daniel,
It really looks cool. I am sorry it isn't working for you.

 

Is petunia really your name?

 

It is my own fault. I wanted to go full bore css, and it looks like I am going to have to go with an expanding table format instead.

Sigh.

Petunia - the template is document that blogger uses to determine how my blog "looks and feels" - CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets - but practically speaking, the "styles" are really just user defined extended hyper-text markup language (XHTML) which dictate how the various elements in your blog are going to look. The color of the text, the background color, the images, the placement and size of the various blog items (how big is the header, the left side, right side, and middle content, etc.) - all these things are determined using the template document - which those of us who fiddle with them refer to as simply the "template."

Many readers are bloggers themselves - and as such some of these have fiddled with, or replaced entirely the default (and rather plain) blogger templates.

It is not necessary knowledge - but those of us who have had to fight with this document trying to get our blog to look a certain way - well, they can appreciate the frustration.

It is my own ego that demands an entirely "table free" layout. It just doesn't seem to work the same in different browsers. Most of us use IE 5 or 6 (about 60% of us) then a bunch use Firefox, and safari, and netscape etc. Trying to get the page to look the same on each "platform" is tough, as some of the browsers render the xhtml styles inconsistently.

I think I am just going to swallow my pride and do a table layout - at least it will work without hassle. ;-)