A few readers have brought it to my attention that the ad that should appear in the upper left hand portion of the post pages of this travelogue is overlapping the text. I must admit that I truly have no idea what you are talking about. The ad displays properly for me in Chrome, Firefox, [...]
A few readers have brought it to my attention that the ad that should appear in the upper left hand portion of the post pages of this travelogue is overlapping the text.
I must admit that I truly have no idea what you are talking about. The ad displays properly for me in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
Could someone send me a screenshot?
The ad is placed there with a WordPress plugin called “All in one Adsense,” so this is not my coding error. I just upgraded the plug-in today, so maybe that could take care of the problem?
For people who are seeing problems, could you please tell me what browser you are using and what is happening? A screenshot would be better?
I am going into the Guatemala Jungle tomorrow, so will be out of touch. If you could send some feedback tonight, I will try to fix it.
This is what I am looking at

This is how the ad is appearing for me in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
Thanks,
Wade
Update
I just received a screenshot of the problem. This is what viewers using IE6 are getting.

Error of ad in IE6
Is anybody else having the pages display like this who are using a browser other than IE6?
If not, then I cannot say that this is much of a problem. The fact of the matter is that many, if not most, websites are no longer providing support for IE6. Even Google and Microsoft themselves are letting it go.
IE6 is dead, you should upgrade your browser.
It is truly difficult enough making the code of Vagabond Journey work properly in updated and supported versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE8, so it is my impression that we will not be able to make things work for users of IE6.
For those of you who are webmasters, I am sure you understand. For those who aren’t, then please believe me when I tell you that it is really difficult to get your pages to display properly in recent, live, and supported browsers, let alone dead ones.
Please upgrade your browser.
Thanks to Nate for helping out with this.
Thanks to everyone else as well,
Wade
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I am the founder and editor of Vagabond Journey. I’ve been traveling the world since 1999, through 93 countries. I am the author of the book, Ghost Cities of China and have written for The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Diplomat, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. VBJ has written 3728 posts on Vagabond Journey. Contact the author.
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May 26, 2010, 12:07 pm
Sent a screenshot over; I’m using IE 6.0 so it could have something to do with that.
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May 26, 2010, 12:20 pm
Gag. IE6 is the bane of the Internet. I’m sure you’ve gotten use to your circa 2001 (release Aug ’01) Internet browsing experience.
Don’t change a snippet of code, Wade — not your problem.
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May 26, 2010, 1:51 pm
yep your right..IE6 is the problem …my other browsers work fine. problem solved.
but just a gentle reminder.. should things really be labelled dead if they still provide some value? I still use IE6 for several work reasons that aren’t really important to this discussion. sure it’s old , sure there are newer releases with all sorts of newer features..sure users should switch..
but is it dead?? I don’t think so..are we so technologically snotty that we can’t see value from the old? are things moving so quickly that a 10 year old version of software is labelled dead?
walk slow might apply to the use of technology also…but I realize it would be hard to do all of this blog without technology. a definite issue you probably have to deal with all the time Wade. how to move through life more simply but be on the cutting edge of technology. interesting wouldn’t you say??
take care
mike
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