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Abatement

It would appear that my blog template frustration has been abated. I have found a template that is . . . obedient to my every command, appears to have no problems (miracle of miracles), and is a template with which I can live (although there is one minor item I'd like to fix; I've got to figure out where the problem lies first, however). Amazing, isn't it? [EDIT: That one minor item? It's been fixed. Life is good. :P ]

Blog Template Frustration

I've found several templates that I like for my Townshende blog , and yet every single damned one of them has problems. Some of them have highly technical problems. One, in fact, — a template that I like a lot . . . this one, called Black Splat — had several problems. The code was designed to work around several problems with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser (very typical of Microsoft, actually), but it didn't have the code necessary for other browsers to display that template correctly. It took me about 10 minutes of experimentation, along with some very specific searches to figure out the problem. Most people aren't interested in this crap, but indulge me. Here's the original code: body {    position: relative; /* Fixes browser resizing bug in IE6 */     margin: 10px auto;    width: 980px;    font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, sans-serif;    text-align: center; /* IE Centering ...