Out of Egypt:

blog should look fine in ie now

I'm checking it out with Browsershots as we speak. But the problem was with IE's implementation of the box model. Apparently still in IE 7, you can't have things floating on either side of normal content, and thus a fully CSS banner is difficult to create.

Now the only thing I wish I could do was create some sort of preload function so the sidebar on the site only displayed after all the rest of my content was loaded. This way, I wouldn't have to worry about text appearing on the unreadable red background, and would be able to move to the next phase of my progressive redesign. Help, anyone?

Also, I'm trying to figure out how to get more than the first 40 words of an entry in the RSS feed. So far, I haven't had any success.

to change the number of words in your feed, it should be in the weblog config/preferences/number of words in a n excerpt. I set mine to 100, but you can go higher if you want.

By the way, do you ahve any idea how to change the html extension of indivivual posts so that instead of the file being named a number, it can be named the title of the entry or something else?

Posted by: John at September 5, 2007 11:12 AM

I know it's possible to have the file be named according to the page title. But it may be difficult to switch in mid-stream, because it would mess up your permalinks. Check out hint #1 on Starting a Blog with MovableType.

Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 5, 2007 12:38 PM

So I have found, ah well, it was just an idea. Thought it might help peeps find my blog.

Posted by: John at September 5, 2007 4:39 PM

I don't think it would raise your pagerank. It's really just to make you feel more organized.

Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 5, 2007 4:46 PM

you are probably right, I guess that's what categories are for, after all.

Posted by: John at September 5, 2007 4:49 PM