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We've been keeping our audience in mind with respect to what kind of browsers you'all are using lately. Some may remember our post on how many PC & Mac users we have. Well since so many of you are using internet explorer, we've done some extra optimization for IE, good news is - things are getting cleaned up! Bad news is a couple things have changed in the pages and stylesheets that have effected the appearance of your custom profiles.

The biggest one of all is frame widths. Internet Explorer was making everything much more wide then Firefox and Safari so we kind of fixed this by putting a set width in most pages on the content frames. Where this effects you is if you're using your own style sheets in the edit style page. As of our updates you may notice some of your frames are a little more wide or less wide. This is because we have hardcoded the frame with in there.

So in order to fix your frame widths simply remove any width definition in your stylesheets. That would be: take out any thing that says " width:(your width is here); "

Or say you have a style tag that looks like this:
td.rw_heading {
background-image: url('/bgcolors/azure.jpg');
padding:3px 10px 0px 10px;
height:16px;
width:460px;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: 800;
line-height:1.3em;
font-size:12px;
}

Just remove the line that says "width:460px;"

by doing that the hardcoded width will take over and your custom width will no longer fudge things up.

By the way all you out there who didn't know - this stylesheet stuff is just CSS which is a method for customization the visual appearance of your webpage/blog/profile etc. It's handy to know, and since you're already doing it you can wipe that "I don't get it!" look off your face. If you want to learn more just search "CSS" in google or my favorite - go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp <- w3schools has tons of useful and really easy lessons about CSS, HTML and all that other gobble-di-gook!

If you still have questions please feel free to ask us! We have some seriously awesome profile customization tools coming your way really soon - but until then this is rad stuff to learn.

The "Manhattan Project" of Ekaweeka projects is unveiled today, we have been quietly developing an AJAX method of organizing the content in your profile. Some of you may have seen websites using this technology like iGoogle, Netvibes, Windows Live, and Page Flakes to name a few.

This method allows you to drag and drop the sections of your profile where ever you choose to place them. It's a long shot from perfect but it puts us further down the path of innovation and giving Ekaweeka Users total control over the appearance of their profile. In the near future we'll be applying this technology to every one of your pages, with abilities to add and remove any widget on any of your pages. We'll also separate the website links and EkaPages navigation list under your profile photo so you can choose to have those or move em' or RE-move them altogether.

This is a fairly new type of web technology much more familiar to the world of PC based software, we don't expect everyone to "get it" immediately. But we do think that those who do catch on quickly will be able to share the knowledge and get the word out!

As far as using the editor, it's quite simple, just click on the "PROFILE EDITOR" link in your account page (it's kind of hard to miss at the moment), that will take you to an editable version of your profile, once you are there roll your mouse over the section title/header bar of any section you'll notice the mouse icon changes to a directional movement/dragging icon, click down with your mouse (without unclicking) on the section title bar and drag the widget to any other place on your profile.

A great example of getting started is moving your comments section to the left column, or moving your blog to the left column, or putting your blog above your "About Me" section. You can also move your items section to the right column, and if you've enabled multiple item sections you can move any of those to any place in the page.

The profile editor is a tool with endless possibilities and we are happy to bring it to your door first!!!!