Welcome to Buddy Foote's Blog v.4!

Yes, it is finally here. After a long wait and for the makers of it (Buddy Foote and Caitlin) going through hours of extreme headaches and thus the abuse of pain-killing drugs, the 'Buddy Foote's Blog v.4' layout is now released to the public! Now I'm going to come out and warn you right now: We have been having problems with this layout displaying on certain browsers, screen resolutions, and computer monitors, so if you see any problems with the layout or if any glitches occur, please contact me or post a comment here as soon as possible! But other from that, I hope the layout displays good for you and thus you shall be able to breathe in the beauty of it. The 'BFBv.4' layout takes the form of a three-column blog with four different sections divided up in the columns -- Blog Authors, Blog Stuff (such as archives, counter, etc. and there is no image to depict this section), Blog Features, and Affiliate Section. I hope the contents of all the sections work properly for you and therefore you shall be able to use them to your advantage.

Actually, I'm going to now display a list of known problems this layout has. If you encounter any of the following problems or problems not listed, please contact me or post a comment!

• The banner being cut off due to the Blogger Navigation.
• The right sidebar displaying at the bottom of the page (major problem).
• Images on the sidebars not being aligned properly.
• The sidebars and the middle column should have their own separate borders -- there should be a space in between the left sidebar border and the middle column border, and the right sidebar border and the middle column border. Sometimes they're "fused" or one doesn't display.
• The 'Affiliates' portion of the 'Affiliate Section' should be a vertically scrolling marquee. If not, we have a problem.
• The rest of the 'Ask The Author' form not displaying. If only the drop-down menu displays and not the text area where the typed question should go, as well as the 'Submit' and 'Reset' buttons, then we have a problem.
• Some of the forms not displaying the proper white-text-on-black-background style.
• With a 800x600 resolution, the images may overlap borders or even the entries and sometimes the right sidebar is displayed at the bottom of the page.
  

I have tested this layout on multiple computers with different screen monitors (15.4'' and 19'' wide screen monitors as well as others), screen resolutions, web browsers (Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and AOL), and operating systems (Wii, Windows XP, and Windows Vista). Also I asked my friends to check up on the layout also to confirm that it works on their computers (special thanks to Josh, Burge, Emily, Chris, Matt, and others). And from all these different methods of displaying the layout, only my Internet Explorer on my 19'' monitor on my desktop (right sidebar at the bottom of page and discoloration of form styles) and my Wii which runs on Opera (the 'Ask The Author' form not displaying text area and buttons) had any problems. So yes, the layout is not perfect but it shouldn't bombard you with problems either even though the list is quite long. I tested the layout quite good and created it to suit most of my testing platforms, however problems will occur and thus I'll need you to help me point them out.

This layout started around the beginning of August 2007 and ended the same month. There were many different versions of the layout, and different plans to approach a successful three-column blog, but in the end, only one prevailed. Thanks to the blog Random Bytes, however, for pointing me in the right direction for making this blog layout a dream-come-true. Like I said, the coding of the layout involved me staying up for long hours into the night with headaches trying to solve a problem that I was having, and thanks to Caitlin for creating many amazing banners as well as the blended one displayed at the top of the page.

For the record, here is a comparison between the 'Buddy Foote's Blog v.3' layout and the current 'Buddy Foote's Blog v.4' layout:

Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 has been up and running for over two years and finally we have a blog layout to provide for the evolution of the blog. The new blog layout has a great eye candy element as well as organization and interactive blog features. In the end, I'm proud of the new BFBv.2 layout called 'BFBv.4' (confusing, eh?) and I hope it survives to accompany this blog for many years to come.

Have any compliments, complaints, or problems with the new layout? Please comment!

Have a good one!