So apparently I had a stupid error in my HTML (probably the result of a bungled plugin customization) which was causing lots of trouble for IE 7 and Opera. I fixed this problem and (through the magic of conditional comments) fixed the navigation menus for IE 7. I don’t have a clue if the navigation menus work in IE 6 or below but you shouldn’t be using IE 6. It’s on window’s update so just select the windows update icon from your start menu and install it.

Even better get firefox. Or opera or even safari. This site now works in IE 7 but it isn’t as pretty. For instance the list elements on the sidebar don’t have the nice little » marker since li:before doesn’t seem to work in IE 7. Before someone jumps on me I know I could use a marker image or some other technique but it just doesn’t seem worth the effort when things look acceptably good in IE 7 and just right in all the other browsers. Also the navigation menus are a bit of a hack in IE so they may look less perfect.