Google Chome - Sidebar looks broken ONLY on some computers - wordpress

I currently have a WordPress theme online and appears to work fine but one of my clients noted that the blog page layout is broken in Google Chrome. The sidebar appears right underneath the page content. So I checked his website and my demo and it does indeed look broken. So I have spoken to another programmer and he says it's not broken and he uses the latest version of Chrome too. I have never encountered such an issue, it works for some but not for others.
EDIT: The issue has been fixed with thanks to Joseph Erickson.

Looks like it has to do with the width of the #sidebar. If you shrink it just a little bit, it'll fit properly.
Why is this happening? Who knows. These little pixel shifts with floats can be hard to track down. I would recommend not trying to fit everything so snug together and allow some wiggle room when putting two fixed-width floating elements inside the same element.

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Z-index issue in mozila firefox, in a css only page

I know this has been asked many times, and I have been searching for the answer in a lot of places but I can't seem to fix my code. Thank you for reading this because I'm going crazy here! First I had a different z-index problem with safari, than another with explorer, but now the z-index problem I'm having with mozila I can't fix in any way. I code in chrome, where it seems to work perfectly (for me it seems at least!)
I believe now it works more or less fine in most browsers but not on mozila. The idea of the page is to make (only with CSS because that's the only language supported by the website) a flipping book of several pages. I see some examples around of CSS only flipping cards (only one page), but not a book of more than one page. So I essentially overlap several "cards", in order to give this effect. You can see the demo from codepen here: pkrein/pen/qBOewem
Btw I do know this code is not as clean as it could be, but that's the way I figured to make a fuction like that works only with CSS, and I hope it will make sense for you.
Ok, so the matter is, the content inside the book pages is not "scrollable" on firefox. I guess this is indeed a z-index problem, because when I move any page outside the book, that is, from behind the rest of the content, it scrolls fine.
Let me know if I can give any more info that could help you understand my issue!
I figured a possible solution for this. It's not quite the solution for the problem itself but it's something that can make what I want to do work.
The problem was: (what I had to remove in order to make it work):
(1) The div #content-holder holding all the text inside the flap
(2) The div .preparation-text inside the .preparation (that's the text I want to scroll). That was a scrolling div (.preparation) inside a non-scrolling div (.preparation-text). I always add a scrolling div inside a non-scrolling div in order to hide the scrollbar, by adding a high padding-right to the inside div. I know I can use code to hide the scrollbar but it do not work in all browsers.
How I fixed:
(1) I just removed the #content-holedr divs, since it was not strictly necessary.
(2) I removed the .preparation-text and transformed .preparation into a scrolling div. Then I just covered the scrollbar with an image of the same size and colors as the background (a print of the layout).

responsive not full width when loading single page

I am trying to make a responsive website, but I am stumbling upon a weird problem. When I am looking on the desktop page, everything is in the right position. There are no pixels left.
However, when I am loading the responsive version on my mobile, I see some pixels left (just scroll to the left or the right and you will see what I mean). The problem gets bigger when there is content like a single post or page.
The website is here: http://FavoriteFM.com.
I can provider the CSS code, but it will be a lot of lines. I am suspecting something in the content is 'sticking out'. But I am not sure of a tool that can see such problems.
Thanks,
Dennis
Today I have disabled every div by div. I figured out the problem is with the sidebar. I still had: 'left: 8px;' on. Removing it did the trick for me. So if you have this problem, check if something of your content is 'sticking' outside your wrapper. Even if you can't see it, it still can be there.

iPad Zoom Out Breaks Centering

I've been struggling all day with the most random-feeling problem. On single posts/articles in my WordPress theme, the site loads fine on an iPad and then if you "spread" to zoom out, you get this weird margin/centering issue that is shown in the screenshot. Basically, the auto margins are ignored and the whole site is shifted off to the left.
I'm told this doesn't happen on any of the other pages (such as home or category archive pages), but since I don't actually own a device myself, I cannot test.
There was an improperly closed div in the but fixing that doesn't seem to have resolved the problem according to my tester. I also, already re-wrote the markup to more closely mimic that of the other non-problem pages, and removed any tricky absolutely positioning, so I'm pretty much out of ideas as to what else would be causing this.
Demo link
I just checked it on my iPad 3, and the page seems to be perfectly centered. Even after zooming.

Styling issues in Safari

I've been working on a website for a little while now, doing most of my testing in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. As I'm wrapping things up, I've tried viewing it in Safari (on Mac, iPad, and iPhone). I've noticed that certain elements are misplaced in Safari. I've tried playing with the CSS, but I've had no luck.
The page can be viewed here - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/
See specifically the logo (being pushed down into the banner), the font of the tagline in the banner (wrapping beyond the banner and extending too far to the left), the 'Featured Work' title wrapping, the project names wrapping, and the footer wrapping.
Here is how the page should look - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/images/chrome.png
To see how it looks on my iPhone, change the link above to .../iphone.png
Any help is appreciated.
The issue is (I think) that you have your browser's text zoomed in.
I loaded the page in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS 10.7.3, and it loaded fine initially. When I zoomed normally, the layout stayed intact. As soon as I tried zooming just the text, the layout broke per your description.
That being said, you may want to think hard about how to make the layout more 'flexible' in the event a user does have their text size increased. In IE, for example, the default zoom is full page zoom, but a user can still increase their text size apart from zooming. It's worth testing your layout in those situations to make sure it doesn't completely derail. I'm not saying it has to be perfect, but still legible.
One idea is to try out different units. I've found that when declaring horizontal lengths (e.g. margin-left) using relative measurements works, but when declaring vertical lengths, (e.g. margin-top) using pixel measurements works better. For super critical items, like the site logo, positon:absolute may be a good route to try.

Niggles of Web App Between IE7 and IE8

This is probably the worst question I have ever posted on Stack Overflow but I am trying to figure out how to fix this page so that it renders the same way in IE7 as it does in IE8.
As far as I can tell there are 3 differences.
The first is that the content becomes centered in IE7.
The second is that the middle section of the video shifts slightly to the right so that it is out of alignment with the top and bottom border images.
The third is that the thumbnail of the active video becomes slightly messed up on the right hand side as if it is too big for its background image.
I could post all the code but I think there's too much for it to be effective on SO.
Here is a link: http://facebook.icrossing.de/tools/youtubetab/esprit/
Perhaps there's someone who has seen this sort of problem before and is able to diagnose a quick and not too painful solution.
If you are not using the New features IE8 has to offer, you should consider using compatibility mode.
Here is MSDN page on how to define document compatibility.

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