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Joe Brooks is your average 23-year-old capitalist and sick freak (a.k.a., fan of conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck). He's not a geek, but he believes free software is a "great way to create software that the average Joe can use." Brooks proved that point recently, after becoming disgruntled with Wikipedia administrators who kept reverting posts made by Brooks and other Beck fans at the popular community encyclopedia Web site. Brooks, an open source neophyte, downloaded Mediawiki software, configured it, and started his own site called Glennpedia.

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Why is Lxer scrolling off my screen? The page renders too wide. IE seems to look ok.
I think Dave changed the layout a little.

On the front page it does not appear scrolled off to the right but when posting a message it does. No biggie to me.

Go to your profile page and look for the "change layout (view others)" link.

Click that and it takes you to a page where you can modify the look and layout of the site.

You can customize the code all you want, or in my case, all you know how too. :-)

Sharkscott
I don't think I changed anything at all, but I'm checking into it right now (I've been outside working all day, actually. Tom had to call to alert me to this)

dave
I found the problem...

The "Latest Newswire" has a headline called

"http...//www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=2097"

that's right, the URL itself was the headline. Anyway, that caused the table cell to not be able to wrap and therefore crunched the whole page.

Dave
dave: why aren't you out getting that garden ready?
Sorry Dave. I saw the change and assumed that that is what you must have done. I didn't even consider that it might be something else.

Ugh!

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