Fixed up some of the style definitions that had been causing the problems I’d noted below with Internet Explorer. Specifically if I set the height property of the div element for the sidebar to “100%” then IE (but not Opera 6 nor Netscape 6.2) doesn’t display the sidebar’s background image. That’s one IE bug; the other bug is that moving the <!DOCTYPE> tag to the second line of the file causes IE not to recognize the document type as HTML 4.01, so it doesn’t apply the stricter compliant layout rules.

Long story short, this website now looks great under Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x, Opera 6.x, Netscape Navigator 6.x, and Lynx. (Okay, I wouldn’t say anything looks “great” under Lynx, but it looks fine.)

I’m not an HTML/CSS purist or snob as I may seem; since I only redesign my web site once every 3-5 years, I just want to get it right.