A regular reader has just informed me that, on the home page of this site, for several days now, she can't see the left column (navigation and pictures of the day) anymore and the middle (Lamma-zine) column is shifting all the way to the left of the screen.

She's using Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on a laptop PC and is pretty computer-literate.

I've tried the major PC browsers and can't find the problem, nothing seems to be missing.

Anybody out there got the same problem?

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Well... I haven't got the extensive range of hard and softwares, but the website looks fine on Mac Safari 1.3.2 and IE 5.2.

Fine in Opera 8 and Firefox 1.5 on Win 2k..

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Lead me not into temptation;
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Are you really a penguin?

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Lead me not into temptation;
I can find it myself, thank you.

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Photo, Video, Person, Wildlife, Bird, Artwork.

I use the <NOSCRIPT> HTML tag to display a message to a user whose js is switched off, but I'm not sure if it will work in a frame.

I don't know if the <NOSCRIPT> tag will work independently inside a table row, but it's worth a try because it's a simple thing to use. If that doesn't produce the effect you want, you might have to split your "display" frame into sub-frames (left, center, right) so that the js message is displayed only in the desired segment of the page.

Just a thought.

Oh, and I can relate to the "feeling old" issue! Many years ago I used to visit various locations to give a talk entitled "What is UNIX and Why Should I Care?" . These days any IT manager worth his/her salt already knows this. My favourite quote, which always managed to wake up a sleepy audience: "UNIX is like Sex ... (long silent pause) ... if you have never experienced it, no amount of explaining will do. If you have, then you don't need an explanation" .

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Lead me not into temptation;
I can find it myself, thank you.

Don't worry about it. Maybe you can use a web bug to find out what proportion of people are seeing your ads. But most users just use IE at default settings, those who change them know what they're doing and will resent you trying to force them to see ads.

I actually see the left column, but (in Opera) all the ads are blank boxes. I consider this a feature, not a bug. If it was plain HTML and not scripted I'd probably see them. So tricky code can be self-defeating. If you use the same methods as the less scrupulous spammers and popup advertisers you end up being blocked with them.

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Lead me not into temptation;
I can find it myself, thank you.