Ok.. here’s the issue… I have a cafepress store front at

http://www.cafepress.com/littleolemeshop

It displays correctly in Firefox, but in IE it’s shoving everything into the side bar.  I emailed CafePress about it, and their rep just said that it looks the same in both browsers when she opens it and she suggested that I check my settings in IE.  I have 4 different computers, I’ve opened it on all 4 in both browsers and on all 4 everything is shoved in the sidebar in IE.  I even checked for and downloaded updates to IE and still have the same problem.

The way the custom HTML is set up on their site, it divides everything into header, footer, sidebar, and such and you fill in your HTML in each section and it puts it together.  My info is obviously in the right sections or it wouldn’t display properly in Firefox.

Basically what I need is for anyone with IE to visit my store and let me know if everything is displaying properly.  If possible, save a screen shot of what you see on your computer and email it to me at If this is not happening on just my computers then I’m going to send the screen shots to cafe press and raise a little heck to make them figure out what’s screwing up.  It was displaying properly as of a week ago, so I’m thinking it’s something on their end, but I gotta prove it.

THANKS!!!!

I’m getting it proper in IE7, sometimes it’s the resolution you run as well, sites are designed with a minimum res and it’s mentioned a lot

Check your email for screen cap.

Looks good in IE7, FF & Opera

How much access do you have to your html?

There are a bunch of ways to jsutify in HTML & CSS. I personally only know how to in CSS> but it looks fine to me.

I also changed window size and did all the basics that bad site design chokes on. All of them passed my tests.

That screen shot you sent me was exactly what I was talking about.

This is how their setup is on where I can manipulate the code:
http://www.littleolemedesigns.net/cafepres-screen-shot.jpg

This is what it is doing wrong:
http://www.littleolemedesigns.net/screen_shot_IE_wrong.jpg

This is what it should be doing:
http://www.littleolemedesigns.net/screen_shot_FF_correct.jpg

It’s working fine FireFox and not working in IE.... it worked as of about a week or so ago.  The cafepress rep said it looks the same to her in both browsers, so I’m at a loss for what to do here.

I need to see what the sidebar code looks like.

So far it sounds like you need to send the screen caps to customer service and let them work it out. I can see not having an obscure brower work, but IE not work?  I know IE is a pig, but it’s a pig we all have to learn to live with since it’s not going away anytime soon.

Here’s the side bar code… but see, the categories are also displayed in the side bar, and I have no control over that.  So something in the code controls it too.

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/img/spacer.gif</td>
<td colspan="2">http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/img/spacer.gif</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/img/spacer.gif</td>
<td class="smallprint" colspan="2">SUBSCRIBE
Sign up to receive our store newsletter!</td>
</tr>

Code for Drop-Down menus here.....

<font style="arial" size="3" align="center">

<b>
</noscript>

<form method="post" action="/cp/members/member_subscription.aspx" />
<input name="storeid" value="<cpstore:id>" type="hidden" >
<input name="emailtype" value="1" type="hidden" />
<input name="sendmail" value="true" type="hidden" />
<input name="cbstore" value="on" type="hidden" />
<tr>
<td>http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/img/spacer.gif</td>
<td class="smallprint"><input name="txtEmail" type="text" size="12" maxlength="50" value="your email” onFocus="this.value=’’;" /></td>
<td width="100%"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="GO" /></td>

</tr>

</form>

</table>

I took a look at it in firefox we developer and this site is 100% HTML. Unfortuantely I only know CSS & Javascript. I understand the syntax of HTML. But have no practical knowledge on it.

I’m pretty sure you have enough to send to the Cafe press help desk and get it resolved. I do know there are some HTML gurus in here. (I won’t point them out… yet) So if that fails. Let’s get you connected w/ the right ppl.

NOTE:
THe way I see it though. Even a HTML pro may have problems helping since your not given all the HTML code to work w/. It’s easy enough to get that code, but you can’t u/l it to their server, so it does you no good.

Thanks for looking it over.  The site is actually a combination of some css, some java, and mostly html.  CSS and Java are used for the style, and not so much for anything else.  But like I said, they have control over part of it that I can’t reach, because i can’t turn off the category displays in the side bar.  There’s a check box that lets me choose whether or not to display sub-categories, but that’s it. 

I’m going to get them today and send the screen shots.

Thanks again for your help!!

That;s pretty interesting. I went to look at your site w/ web development tools and I yanked it off the web w. Dreamweaver and I didn’t see any CSS.

Must be getting old…