Patrick Malley

That is actually exactly what I would prefer (to essentially make the entire li a link).  Sometimes the easiest solution seems so difficult.  Thanks David.

Thanks David - this is helpful.  Knowing this, I can stop looking through my CSS for the problem! 

Joseph - I appreciate your quick reply.  Here are some screen shots of my frontpage problems:

>What do you mean by that? A screen shot showing what you get and what you would like to get would be useful.

This is the left-column on my front page:


This is the left-column that I want to see (which I do see on my course page):

As you can see, the left-column matches up in my course page, but not on my front page.   I have tried moving the left-column for the front page only without success.  What - short of setting absolute values or altering my background jpeg - can I do to fix this?  I only wonder if you or others have experienced this same problem.

Thanks for the feedback on the blue-on-black links/background.  I will set all left-column 'a' values to white.

>Why would you want to disable CSS?

I don't want to!  My initial thought was that IE and FF were rendering the html differently before CSS were being read causing a layout nightmare.  After looking at my CSS, I was the problem - not IE or FF!  Sorry.

>I can't see any CSS rollovers even using FF. Where are they?

FF here and at my school shows the following rollover effect in my left-column:

When the curser passes over the 'li' in my left column, that 'li' turns from gray to blue as shown in FF.  However, this does not seem to work in IE.

I'm currently working on a 960px fixed-width theme for Moodle. I decided to start from scratch on my CSS and leave the standard theme behind. I'm having difficulty with the following:

1. I can't get the left-column flush with the layout-table on the front page. However, it is flush on the course-pages. You can see this at http://mrmalley.com/nhs. I may have to get creative, but thought I would run this by the community first to see if any knows of why this is so.
2. With CSS disabled, IE automatically centers content, while Firefox does not. This is a particular pain. If I set my margins to center content on the page for Firefox, it is no longer centered for IE. I am hoping that this is an amateur's mistake. Is there some CSS value that I am missing that will center content elements without centering text?
3. My CSS rollovers won't work using IE. What am I missing to make this happen?

I know screenshots would be helpful, and I will add some later.

Other than that, what do you think? I would be grateful for feedback from others who have attempted or are attempting fixed-width themes. What considerations should I make?

I was having the same problems.  If you first install, then delete, and then try to reinstall this block, you will get an error because two tables are left in your Moodle database:

prefix_message_access
&
prefix_message_access_user

Delete them and then return to your admin page.  Everything should work fine after that.