Teething trouble in HTML/CSS

[taliesin]

Given aspects of the content of my new daily, thus far, "blog" which can't be to everybody's liking, I'm slightly reluctant to mention it again here, but I do have a problem or two with style.      
I tweaked with highly adaptable templates which pleased me (by a fellow named Bryan Bell) and got pretty much the look I wanted, plus dealing with some HTML/CSS issues friends have raised.
However, 1):
while the home page works fine in Safari, Camino, Omniweb, Netscape and Explorer, this happens in some browsers (Explorer) -
   
while the date, comment and title come out as I'd prefer in say, Safari:
   
In Explorer on Windows XP, the date comes out big and unsightly. I've checked the HTML as best I've learned, but have yet to suss out what to do about it, if I can do anything. I don't see how to "regulate" these bits.
2) iCab doesn't hack it, and is alone in not doing so. It chucks both the calendar and the navigator tables(?) to the bottom of the page instead of putting them on the right-hand side where they should be.
Could anyone please tell me, from the source code, what might be wrong or missing? The CSS validator gives me a largely clean bill of health, apart from some warnings concerning colour.
3) This may be between me and the RadioUserland people unless anybody knows the quick answer. I'm trying to figure out what "generic" URL, if such there is, I'm supposed to type into an available URL space for each entry so that this is the one that comes up in a RSS news reader like NetNewsWireLite, rather than the URL for the first link in the entry.
Any advice greatly appreciated.      

Edit: I forgot the link.
I'll be brighter in the morning...    
 
 [ 03-18-2003, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: taliesin ]

[Diana]

Hi,

I'm not sure I'm gonna be much help here, but here are three screenshots for my three browsers. I also tried to use Konqueror but it crashes before the page fully loads...every time.

Both machines (winxp laptop and linux desktop) are using Windows TrueType fonts...so Georgia is being used by both. Note the differences in rendition though. Personally I like the way Linux displays it better than Windows...   But even though Georgia was supposedly written especially for screen use, I never got so many complaints about readability with a font choice until I tried to use it on webpages. I finally decided that "readability" is really a personal choice and Georgia just never fits the bill for anyone I know.

IE in WinXP with my preferred settings.

 

Mozilla in Linux - again, my preferences
 
 

Netscape 4.78 in Linux - doesn't work but doesn't crash

 

At first I thought maybe netscapes problem was with the wav file..it wanted to download a plugin. But when I went to another page without the wav file, the above is still all I got.

The CSS looks fine. I could read your pages in either of my two browsers without grief. Since the end user is ultimately in control of the look, whether they know it or not, I wouldn't stress to much about making it "just right". ( I would like to know why Konqueror can't handle it and Safari can.    )

So, if I understand you correctly, you want to know how to make a link to each day's entry without having to show a whole week's worth at a time? If so, this is the URL structure.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120356/2003/03/17.html

That's your userID/year/month/day.html

If you back up through the URL one slash at a time, you'll see the directory structures at each slash. From there you can choose pages.

[taliesin]

Thanks, Diana.
This  does help: on the URL, it's likely a case of the blindingly obvious gone unsaid. I want to do this both for daylink and for archiving.
As to the .wav, I shan't be doing that too often, but tried to embed it in such a way that it shouldn't ordinarily trigger a plug-in request. The only other glitch of that kind was reported by someone whose Mac still uses QuickTime 3, while on Windows, it appears as a Media Player bar.
Noted also what you say about Georgia. I may rethink... Thanks again.