RE: why is it that the right panel always ends up on the bottom on our site?

Hi Christian,

 

I’ve followed up with our implementation team on this again and they’ve come up with a couple possible solutions to the right panel issue.

 

It seems that the issue is caused by the width of the links in the sidebar. This can be controlled in a couple of ways.

1.)   The length of the link names can be shortened (I’m assuming this is not an ideal solution)

2.)   The CSS can be modified to wrap longer links.

 

Attached is a screenshot of what option 2 would look like.

 

Reminder that this issue is only applying to IE 6.0 but the fix would affect all browsers. Example if you chose option 2, these links would wrap in IE 6.0 and 7.0 and Firefox – everything.

 

Please let me know what you’d like to do in regards to this issue.

 

Thank you,

 

Bryon Kuehn

James Tower

AdmissionsGenie Support Project Manager

507.344.5438

AIM: bryonpkuehn

bpkuehn@jamestower.com

 

From: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower)
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:35 PM
To: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower); 'Christian Burk'
Cc: 'Undergrad Website Issues'
Subject: RE: why is it that the right panel always ends up on the bottom on our site?

 

I will then simply stay out of the way.

 

Darren

 

From: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower)
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:31 PM
To: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower); 'Christian Burk'
Cc: 'Undergrad Website Issues'; Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower)
Subject: RE: why is it that the right panel always ends up on the bottom on our site?

 

Hi Christian,

 

I believe we’ve discussed this in the past. The issue is only showing up in IE 6. I haven’t experienced it in any other browser at this time.

 

Our implementation team has been trying to find a fix for this in IE 6.0 without causing it to break in IE 7.0 and other browsers.

 

So, it’s not something that you’re doing wrong. It is just the way that IE 6.0 is parsing the code against the way newer browsers are parsing the same code.

 

I’ll try to get a further update from the team to see if they’ve found any fix at this time.

 

Thank you,

 

Bryon Kuehn

James Tower

AdmissionsGenie Support Project Manager

507.344.5438

AIM: bryonpkuehn

bpkuehn@jamestower.com

 

From: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower)
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:28 PM
To: Christian Burk
Cc: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower); Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: RE: why is it that the right panel always ends up on the bottom on our site?

 

Also, it appears Mary is using Internet Explorer version 6…but with some sort of a plug in that allows her to use tabs….versus using Internet Explorer Version 7.  Is that correct?

 

What are you using?  You are seeing this issue too, correct?

 

Darren

 

 

From: Christian Burk [mailto:christianburk@creighton.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:17 PM
To: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower)
Cc: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower); Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: FW: why is it that the right panel always ends up on the bottom on our site?

 

Hi, Darren,
Mary has repeatedly asked me about this issue, for which Bryon started a ticket: 118816.

I told her that you guys were looking into it, but I wanted to see what you had discovered.

Here’s a couple examples:

Pages without sidemenu jump:
http://admissions.creighton.edu/UAHome/tabid/259/Default.aspx
http://admissions.creighton.edu/Academics/HonorsLeadershipPrograms/tabid/287/Default.aspx
 
 
Pages with sidemenu jump:
http://admissions.creighton.edu/ProspectiveStudents/InternationalStudents/tabid/3698/Default.aspx
http://admissions.creighton.edu/ProspectiveStudents/InternationalStudents/RequirementsGraduate/tabid/3701/Default.aspx

The main difference is that it seems whenever I create a new page, we get the sidemenu jumping down. What am I doing wrong?

Yours,
Christian
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Christian Burk
Creighton University
Undergraduate Admissions
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
christianburk@creighton.edu
(402) 280-2703

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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:34:43 -0500
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Mary E. Chase
Asst. Vice President for Enrollment Management and
Director of Admissions and Scholarships
Creighton University <http://admissions.creighton.edu/>
2500 California St.
Omaha, NE 68178
800-282-5835 or 402-280-2703
marychase@creighton.edu <mailto:marychase@creighton.edu>
 


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