It’s a Double-Double-Double-Dog Dare

Hello lovely blog-readers!  I have a post all about our new closet sitting here begging to be published…but I’m afraid some housekeeping has come up that I want to address first. (I know I know, housekeeping sucks.  No need to tell me!)

So, here’s the dealio.

Recently, my mom told me that this blog shows up on her computer with some less than desirable formatting issues.

Namely, the text in the right sidebar (for her) is over the background of wood planks, which makes the text very hard to read.

The problem is….this problem doesn’t show up for me either in Firefox or in Internet Explorer, and without seeing it, I don’t know where to start to fix it.

Here’s what I see:

On my screen, there is a vellum effect applied to the background, except on the far sides, where the background shows up with its actual colors (ie a photo of some wood planks.)  The vellum lightens up the background, and the text is sufficiently clear and easy to read.

And in this screen shot, you can see that the Blog Archive links as well as the Label links, both also fall nicely over the “vellum” section and don’t extend onto the darker boards (which would certainly be annoying to try to read.)

So I need your help. 

Because I don’t *actually* know everything (I don’t admit that very often), and I can’t be everywhere…

I need to ask a big, fat favor.

Even if you’re not a commenter, you think you can’t spell, or you write only backwards and in Swahili (I’ll figure it out somehow), please take a second to leave a comment, even if it’s the only time you ever comment on this blog.

 

Wait, no.

I’m gonna double-double-double dog dare you to leave a comment, because everything is bigger in Texas.

(Ok, even though I’m not a Texan…lovely state that it is, I’m gonna borrow their slogan anyway.  Consider it advertising.  TX Tourism Bureau – you’re welcome.)

In your comment, please let me know:

1. If you see any blatant formatting problems on your screen, ie whether text is running onto the background etc
2. What browser you’re using, whether it be Internet Explorer (IE) or Firefox or whatever.
3. Any other suggestions you think would make this blog easier on the eyes.  This might be text size, font, color, picture size, the background, you name it, I’m listening!  And I promise I won’t get my feelings hurt. 

You officially have permission to be “painfully honest” – and I’ll still be your buddy 🙂

Thank you thank you thank you!

Your blogging buddy forevers and forevers,