IE Trick for 6.1.1

I'm running IE 6. I refuse to change to IE 7 at least for another 6-12 months, maybe by then it will be stable. I don't know the % of world wide users on 6 versus 7 but put them together and that is around 85% of the market. So while FireFox is a great browser most of my and your users are on something IE.

6.1.1 was optimized for IE 7 so what I got on my homepage with 6.1.1 in IE 6 was column 2 going below column 1. I fixd it so now in IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox I have 2 columns. I just chaged the width of the first block in column 2. I don't know if it will work for you but here it is.

1.) Edit your 6.1.1 database with somethign like phpmyadmin

2.) Select the table "pagecompose"

3.) Look at the fields labeled "column" and "order"

4.) Find the record / row where "colum"= 2 and "order" = 0 that should be the first block in column 2 on your home page. If you know the name of the block you can find it that way too.

5.) In that record / row go to the field "ColWidth" and make it 2 smaller. Mine was 50 and I changed it to 48.

6.) Save it, close nd you're done.

In 6.1.1 Admin Page builder I couldn't find a way with the slider to make the columns different sizes that didn't add up to 100% so I started trring other things. While I haven't tried it with the other pages yet my guess is that it will work on any page with 2 columns that are not showing up right. Of course you will have to find those pages entries in the database and do the same thing.

As I said it worked for me...good luck!!!

Trey

PS I still have to use FireFox to get almost anything done in 6.1.1 admin or even when I do anything on Unity.