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TT Layout Tweaks and One Last Problem

Tue. October 16, 2007 

I’ve made a number of small changes to the site since the start of this month, but nothing major enough to announce on its own. Tweaks include:

I do have one lingering major layout bug, unfortunately, and I’m hoping a TT reader might be able to help me solve it. (I asked about it on the usually-helpful WordPress support forums two weeks ago, and haven’t gotten any feedback.)

Update: The layout bug has been fixed by John Arcadian of Silvervine Games — thank you so much for your help, John!

On posts with closed comments (for example: Being a Player is Like Using a Flashlight), the footer doesn’t expand to fill the width of the screen (like the header does). On posts with open comments, it works just fine.

I had a similar problem with the right sidebar that I was able to resolve on my own by changing where the sidebars appear in the code. Before I fixed it, the right sidebar would “fall” to the bottom of the page on posts with closed comments.

When I load other themes that have “expand-to-fill” footers, they work with just fine on all posts. I suspect this bug is theme-specific, but unfortunately the theme designer doesn’t take questions. If you have any ideas how I can fix this, I’d love to hear them — and thank you in advance!

And now that you’ve had some time to get used to the redesign, what do you think of it? I know I won’t be able please everyone (just like the old design didn’t please everyone), but my goal is to please as many readers as possible.

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8 Responses to “TT Layout Tweaks and One Last Problem”

  1. John Arcadian on October 16th, 2007 9:13 am

    There is a tag that is missing from the closed comments file. It goes right before the footer starts and closes off the sidebar. It is there on the main page, but missing on the closed comments. I’m not sure how to modify the theme in wordpress, but I can take a look at it.

    The new 3 column is better than the previous one was. I’m definitely ok with the site design now, moreso than the first versions of the new design, but hey so long as the content is still good the design will always come up second.

  2. Dallas on October 16th, 2007 10:12 am

    Hey there

    Without much blah:
    The new look is shiny. Looks fresh, new and cool.

  3. Clayton on October 16th, 2007 10:42 am

    I like the new site :) I am a big fan of clean simple looks. As for the issues with Wordpress, no idea how to fix that man.

    I need to make a nice header image for One Angry Gamer. Any tips Martin?

  4. Adam on October 16th, 2007 5:57 pm

    The layout problem seems to be (after a very cursory inspection) that in the closed-comment pages, the footer is being placed inside of the DIV called #content, rather than after it. The #content DIV has a predefined width, so the footer can only expand to be, at most, that same width.

    The reason for this is probably just that at some point, the closing DIV tag for #content got erased by accident.

    So, you need to find the template file where this happened, and put the /DIV tag back in there, right above the commented line that says

    “The main column ends”

    However, be careful that you’re only doing this to the template that controls your closed-comment posts, since the other template seems to work fine. I haven’t bought enough ranks in Wordpress templating to tell you exactly where to do that, but good luck.

  5. Martin on October 17th, 2007 7:11 am

    Dallas and Clayton, I’m glad you like the new layout. :)

    In terms of your header image, Clayton, I’m the wrong guy to ask — I don’t know much about graphics programs. I commissioned the TT logo from a friend of mine, otherwise there probably wouldn’t be one.

    John and Adam: From what I’ve been able to figure out based on your suggestions (and based on going back and forth with you over email, John), you’ve found the source of the problem. I think I’m going to have to educate myself a bit more on how WordPress closes comments, and continue playing with adding closing div tags.

    Thank you very much for your help. :)

  6. John Arcadian on October 18th, 2007 10:58 am

    No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

  7. ScottM on October 19th, 2007 6:03 pm

    Looks nice– I was surprised when I wandered over from RSS land, but like it.

  8. Martin on October 22nd, 2007 8:08 am

    No power indeed. Thank you again, John!

    Scott: That’s good to hear. I didn’t know you read TT via RSS — you’re so active in the comments that I just assumed you visited the old-fashioned way.