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At home I have IE7, Firefox, Opera and Netscape 9, latest versions of all, and the CMSMS site looks fine.

At work I have IE6 and they're are some problems with the site, mainly that the main content area seems to be quite a way down the page.  I get the side bars where they should be but the BLOG for instance I have to scroll down two pages on a 1024x768 full screen display before I see anything.

I love CMSMS and really enjoy using it, just thought that someone should take a look at this as it's not a great advert for CMS if the main site doesn't look right in all Browsers.

Usually these display problems are no related to "CMS" of your choise. They are related to different browser behaviours and bugs in browsers and can happen with any webpage even without cms. Those happen when editor puts content that does not fit in to it's place especially with these css styles templates. IE6 is the most problematic with this.

Without seeing I believe you have image that is too wide or table that is 100% width + IE6 3px float bug or long sentence or something that stretches page wider than there is space for it. Then IE6 finds a place that content fits and it's usually bottom of the page after content in sidebars.

If you have a link to your problematic page, then let us see it and maybe somebody can give you advice how to fix it.

br, K

Hi,

The problem isn't with a site I've created, its with this site, using IE6 go to the BLOG page, you should see what I mean.  I was viewing the page full screen at 1024x768.

I agree differrent browsers may render the display differently, the point I'm making is that every effort should be made to ensure that the site works with as many browsers as possible, making allowances for they're quirks.

It could be that not everyone (unfortunately) writing to that blog can check how it looks with win IE6. I think some of the devs work with mac some with linux.

I looked at that blog with IE6 that I have on my machine and could not find that ploblem until I hit comments. Textarea in the bottom is making right content area too wide.

#comment {width:99% !important;}

Should fix that. Thanks for finding that out and reporting it. Wonder who's taking care of the layout of that blog.

can we get a screenshot please

I'm running macs and linux machines so I cant really check it

Here. it's a long screen but I think you get the idea. at the end of the page is comment box stretching page horizontally.

textbox#comment

I experience the same problem at the office running IE6.
No problems at home using IE7
btw it is about page http://blog.cmsmadesimple.org

okay, I'm gonna laugh.... the blog is running wordpress, not CMS Made Simple  (whew).

Thats not great....for the newbies that come here for the first time, they need to be impressed by the site and the fact that it is compatible with all browsers.

thats why we have the design competition..

do feel free to submit your entry.

I cant see the problem looking at the source, I need to find machine with ie6 to debug the problem better

I checked it with IE6 and their Devtoolbar. Only thing that has width of 100% is the comment textbox in the bottom. Forcing it's width smaller does bring page up. i included screenshot where you see it's fine. Only thing changed is textarea#comment which has width 99%.

I also saved source from that page to be able to edit actuall html and tried smaller number for cols but that did nothing for IE6. adding at end of tag style="width99%" brought it back up again.

br, K

I have the same problem, but on other systems i get the error that text close to image becomes glued to image... what's wrong whit this ?