This has happened to me before. It may be because the YouTube clip is too wide so it is going outside the boundary of your content. Unlike text this cannot wrap around.
Can you get a smaller viewer for it?
If not – did you change any code recently in your sidebars?
Maybe you could create a double-wide column to sit above the two narrow columns for bigger items.
Checking both in FF and IE7 using XP, your columns are in the right place. Obviously because you removed the YouTube clip, right?
OOo, I just noticed your brother posted the next chapter of his book! I really like his story, but I so dislike the discipline of having to wait 2 weeks or more to read the next chapter!
Valerie, it’s actually brother Jay posting chapters for father John. But we’re very sorry for the recent longer delays between chapters. Chalk it up to illnesses, surgery, Christmas, etc., but our aim is one a week — at least most weeks — and hopefully we’re about to get back on track. BTW, he’ll be very happy to know you like it!
About the template problem — in Firefox I see the right 2 columns under the blog column, but not when I switch to comments. It used to happen with your old templates as well when you occasionally posted something with margins out of bounds (at least that was always my assumption). It always gets fixed eventually when the too-wide entry drops off the page.
Oops, yep. There it is! My bad! I usually read this blog in my feed reader and clicked directly to this post on the blog. I should know better than to not check the main page before making a diagnosis. Ruth, you very well may be right on in identifying the problem. In theory it shouldn’t be too difficult to find the offending entry – view each one on the single post page until you find the one that “breaks” the layout. But it may not be as simple as that. Scanning the entries on the front page I can detect nothing the should be creating the issue, but testing definitely points to an entry problem, when I click on “page 2” at the bottom, the right sidebars are back in place.
Mark, I can’t see how this could actually be related to the problem discussed, but I thought you’d like to know. In your Jan. 8 entry: “3 quickie arguments for baptizing babies” I see that your post-bottom info cuddles up next to your book image. I’ve had that happen before. The solution I found was to create a “clear” class in the stylesheet: .clear {clear:both; } Then just call it with a “break” tag after the image or after any text that I want to wrap around the image: . That keeps anything unintentionally wrapping images in posts.
Ruth, I really am enjoying the story, I once almost left the author a comment saying so, but I never finished it. I still may get around to linking to it from my blog, although I don’t suspect it would do much to send him more readers (My blog doesn’t have many readers). I have some confidence in the way many aspects of the story will go, though I suspect much of it is intentionally implanted. I really like the characters. I like the parallel to the “real world.” So far, he’s done a good job of not stereo-typing certain people and he seems fair in pointing out the attitudes and worldviews that lead people in one direction or the other, linking the often unintentional consequences of them. Yet people are still given due respect (no matter what their belief system), while still being held accountable. And it’s so thoroughly postmillenial (the mustard seed/yeast in the loaf kind) that it does my heart good.
Oops, the break tag code got removed. I’ll give it using brackets instead of arrows: [br class=”clear” /] You likely already know how to do it, but the info may be helpful to others.
Something in your “Finally! Part 4: What I teach as a pastor about Law and Gospel” – probably the oversized bullet points near the top. Yet another example of the baaad FV, no doubt. Just kidding.
Hi Mark,
This has happened to me before. It may be because the YouTube clip is too wide so it is going outside the boundary of your content. Unlike text this cannot wrap around.
Can you get a smaller viewer for it?
If not – did you change any code recently in your sidebars?
Maybe you could create a double-wide column to sit above the two narrow columns for bigger items.
Checking both in FF and IE7 using XP, your columns are in the right place. Obviously because you removed the YouTube clip, right?
OOo, I just noticed your brother posted the next chapter of his book! I really like his story, but I so dislike the discipline of having to wait 2 weeks or more to read the next chapter!
Valerie, it’s actually brother Jay posting chapters for father John. But we’re very sorry for the recent longer delays between chapters. Chalk it up to illnesses, surgery, Christmas, etc., but our aim is one a week — at least most weeks — and hopefully we’re about to get back on track. BTW, he’ll be very happy to know you like it!
About the template problem — in Firefox I see the right 2 columns under the blog column, but not when I switch to comments. It used to happen with your old templates as well when you occasionally posted something with margins out of bounds (at least that was always my assumption). It always gets fixed eventually when the too-wide entry drops off the page.
Oops, yep. There it is! My bad! I usually read this blog in my feed reader and clicked directly to this post on the blog. I should know better than to not check the main page before making a diagnosis. Ruth, you very well may be right on in identifying the problem. In theory it shouldn’t be too difficult to find the offending entry – view each one on the single post page until you find the one that “breaks” the layout. But it may not be as simple as that. Scanning the entries on the front page I can detect nothing the should be creating the issue, but testing definitely points to an entry problem, when I click on “page 2” at the bottom, the right sidebars are back in place.
Mark, I can’t see how this could actually be related to the problem discussed, but I thought you’d like to know. In your Jan. 8 entry: “3 quickie arguments for baptizing babies” I see that your post-bottom info cuddles up next to your book image. I’ve had that happen before. The solution I found was to create a “clear” class in the stylesheet: .clear {clear:both; } Then just call it with a “break” tag after the image or after any text that I want to wrap around the image: . That keeps anything unintentionally wrapping images in posts.
Ruth, I really am enjoying the story, I once almost left the author a comment saying so, but I never finished it. I still may get around to linking to it from my blog, although I don’t suspect it would do much to send him more readers (My blog doesn’t have many readers). I have some confidence in the way many aspects of the story will go, though I suspect much of it is intentionally implanted. I really like the characters. I like the parallel to the “real world.” So far, he’s done a good job of not stereo-typing certain people and he seems fair in pointing out the attitudes and worldviews that lead people in one direction or the other, linking the often unintentional consequences of them. Yet people are still given due respect (no matter what their belief system), while still being held accountable. And it’s so thoroughly postmillenial (the mustard seed/yeast in the loaf kind) that it does my heart good.
Oops, the break tag code got removed. I’ll give it using brackets instead of arrows: [br class=”clear” /] You likely already know how to do it, but the info may be helpful to others.
Something in your “Finally! Part 4: What I teach as a pastor about Law and Gospel” – probably the oversized bullet points near the top. Yet another example of the baaad FV, no doubt. Just kidding.