It’s amazing what a missing ” can do to html code.

I put it back in and now my browsers… doing all the stuff that Madeline has always said hers does on a Mac.

A HA.

Okay. I’ll get it fixed.

Hey Madeline, when you get a chance, look at the index.html version of the page and tell me if it still breaks the way it used to.

Yay! I was happy with index.php, but to actually have an answer to a question I'd figured was just another baffling artifact of a complex system... That's neat. You go, Doyce!

Sorry, commented at the same time. index.html no longer has that strange big white area with the top entrey's text cramped over on the right side, but the blog is still 2.5 screens wide (with IE on Mac OS X).

I don't know if it's a short explanation, but here's what happened.

Part one:
All the little <HR> tags (the lines between posts, for the less html-savvy) are actually <HR width="98%">.

Except, they weren't, they were actually <HR width="98%>. See that missing " after the 98%? Neither did I.

Part two:
Up at the top of the page, the screen is divided into (basically) two columns: One for the big 'bears-cave' title and another for the little link pictures.
Beneath that, it should obviously be the exactly the same way, except it wasn't : there was another column with nothing in it between the column that holds the posts and the column that holds the linkbar. Don't ask me where it came from. I have no idea.

Part three:
The missing " made IE ignore the extra column. Do not ask me why, I don't know. Older IE versions on a Mac did not. When I put the missing " back (because it was ALSO making my Date header not show up), IE suddenly noticed the extra column and freaked out.

Huh! Yeah, it is those darn " that get me most of the time when I'm coding. And you're right, the date headers do show up now, as well, when they didn't before...