My Blog Slid Down the Page

I can't tell you how frustrating it is when I can't figure out simple technology. Since what I do a good part of the day is figure out how to use really complex technology.

In any case. I like Blogger (at the moment/will change soon I'm sure) for the pure simplicity of what they offer. That's why over the last few days I couldn't believe I was having a problem I wasn't able to fix.

Let me explain. I use both Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.7.1. In Mozilla my blog looked fine. In IE, my right side navigation was no longer at the top of the page. It had slid down to the bottom, where pretty much no one could see it. Not a huge deal, but it bugged my none-the-less since over 60% (according to my statcounter's add-on report) of the people visiting were using IE.

So, I searched the Help forum and did eventually find the very simple fix for the template design I'm using. My links embedded in the post, on the left side of the page were too long. I made them smaller. Page is back to normal. Luckily I stopped myself from ripping apart the code (my first inclination).

Lesson learned--always go for the simple stuff first AND the answer is always out there, it's just a matter of locating it.

P.S. For the non-geeks in the crowd...you really do not have to put an additional web link in the content section of blogger. As long as you put it in the LINK box below your post title, you will be fine. I do it because I do not believe everyone knows to put their mouse on the title link.