I just noticed some differences in the blogsimplified WordPress themes when trying them in Internet Explorer 6. It seems that IE6 treats a lot more things differently than I anticipated.
One of the things that doesn’t seem to work is min-height, which throws off the nice layout and matching of the main page area and the sidebars. It also looks like some of the padding and margins are treated differently.
Stay tuned while I test these themes out again and provide some updates.
[This should be fixed now. If you find any quirks in other browsers, please let me know by posting a comment. Thanks.]
In this update, I made some changes so that the left and right columns are always the same height even if the content of the blogs or pages is longer than the sidebar.
Now both the main content area and the sidebar both fit within a mainpage id, which also has a min-height of 1240px, so that two adsense skyscraper ads can neatly fit in the minimum page size including margins.
I also removed the Google Analytics script from the footer. I use Google Analytics to generate site statistics for my sites, but I accidently left it in the theme footer. If you want to add your own Google Analytics code, you can cut and paste your own analytics script into the footer.php file just above the end of the body tag.
In version 1.0.1, I added some things required by WordPress.org in order to share the blogsimplified WordPress theme in their directory. In particular, they require the screenshot to show the actual site, and the theme must make use of the tag line.
Version 1.0.2 is a slight change after I tested the theme on Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. The image color didn’t match the background color anymore on Firefox, although it matched perfectly on Safari. I just made the background image repeat in order to fix this and be consistent on all browsers.
The tag line was showing up in mysterious ways and getting clipped in IE. The behavior on IE always seems slightly different than expected and never quite according to what the standards say, so now I am starting to understand all the discussion on that subject. On the other hand, it might be something I am doing wrong in the CSS.
Let me know if you find anything that needs to be fixed.