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I have spent the last few days coding up my site to make it look like the site that was here before I found the wonders of Joomla. So I am in a mass conversion of the older site with a lot of content into my new Joomla package, and I love it so much! I do have a quick q regarding a weird content area issue that I hope someone can help me with because I can't think of anything:

The front published content posts are on the front page, and after the second post the third and consecutive posts show up to the right of the content itself - pushing the screen over with the content off the browser screen. (To see a visual representation of this, please go here: ourartsite.com/s

I hope I can find some help on this, because like I said I am new at this. I still need to make a general post about how to install plugins - when I dl the package from extension sites there is not one single file I upload onto my site; or maybe I am installing wrong, etc. Any useful articles on how to install extensions would be helpful, but I can direct that question if needed myself.

Your problem isn't with joomla, it's in your template/css. Instead of floating everything left and right, you'd probably be a lot better off to create two columns and just use relative positioning. Floats can get really messy. You can google search for 'css 2 column layouts' or something like that and get lots of examples.  http://www.positioniseverything.net/ is a great site for IE workarounds.

It's really easy to set up css that works perfectly in everything but IE... then the nightmares begin   For any one layout, there's a dozen ways to do it for all other browsers, but only one will work in IE without breaking everything else. Typically I just do two different css files (three, now that IE7 is out).

good luck!