Well, if you've tried accessing this page within the last three hours, you've found it installed and uninstalled and installed and uninstalled and installed and uninstalled and that's how I've been spending my evening. I fixed about half of the software problem but it still doesn't look exactly right in some versions of Internet Explorer 9.
But here's what had me removing large clumps of hair from my own head, Moe Howard-style: I have a bunch of other domains on the same server that hosts this weblog. I installed the weblog in one of those and it looked fine in I.E. 9.Then I did the exact same thing installing it in the newsfromme folder and it looked screwy. So I uninstalled that and I installed it again in the folder that houses another domain on the server. Looked fine.Then I did the exact same thing installing it in the newsfromme folder and…screwy again. I tried putting it into a sub-folder of newsfromme and it was wrong. I tried putting it in a sub-folder of another folder on the server and it was right. It'll work fine as long as it's in the wrong domain. I managed to minimize the screwiness to the point where I can live with it (or make you live with it) but it's still not right. Anyway, I'm through fussing with it for a while.
Everything is as fixed as it's going to get for now. If something looks wrong and you're on an older browser, I suggest you upgrade…not for my silly little blog but because there will be more and more sites where you'll be missing out. Seeking advice on my problem earlier, I phoned a friend who does the kind of thing I was doing, only he does it for huge fees for big companies and knows what he's doing. He couldn't solve my dilemma but he did say (approximate) this…
The sites I'm doing will not look right on older browsers and most of the companies I do them for don't care that much. I mean, they'd like everyone to be able to access their site and navigate about and take in all the fancy graphics. But if someone writes in to say he can't see the Flash embeds or the QuickTime movies, the company doesn't sweat it.They assume that person isn't much of a customer. If he won't take the time to upgrade to the latest browser, which is usually free, he's probably not going to upgrade his old TV, his old car, his old computer.They may even have marketing surveys that tell them that. Anyway, they don't care that much.
I dunno how true that is but it sounds true. For what it's worth, I use Mozilla Firefox and I keep it up to date but not immediately. Every time they put out an update, half the plug-ins stop working for a week or two so I delay my upgrades for a few weeks.Things can get better in a couple of weeks. I'm hoping my site's Internet Explorer problem does.