Fixing B2blog

Running a website, even a blog, is a combination of technology, content, and design, per Jeff Veen. I've spent too much time this week trying to figure out the technology of CSS layouts for this blog. The design is a nearly-stock template from Blogger. It has a problem (even unmodified) of not allowing the page to scroll past the bottom of the right-hand column when browsing in IE6. I thought I fixed it originally, but I was wrong. Now it is better.

So what did I have to do? I had to change the HTML header to a non-standard type, per the advise of Phil Ringnalda. Better to make the site usable for readers, than be use standard format rules--a hack, in other words.

Let me make my fix instructions even more explicit than Phil's.

Fixing Blogger or other CSS multi-column scrolling problem:
1. Delete the first 1-2 lines in your HTML that look like this:
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
< html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

2. Substitute this text:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>

3. Post and yell ya-hoo!