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I love DrudgeReport.com. At least one browser on each of my computers is set to use it as the homepage, and my Blackberry is setup the same way.

I spend at least a half hour to an hour every day reading Drudge on my Blackberry. It’s fast, it points me right to the important articles, and it’s simple to navigate for the most part. There’s one problem though; those damn links at the bottom of each column! You can click the thumbnail on the right for a full view of what people see on a Blackberry (it’s not exact, but you’ll get the point).

Basically, you get one group of headlines, then a huuuuuge list of links to other news sites, then the second list of headlines and another huuuuuge list of links, and finally the last group of headlines. On a normal browser it renders correctly so all of the headlines are at the top, and all of the links are at the bottom.

Not so on a mobile device. The window is only wide enough to display one column at a time, so one column stacks on top of the next.

MATT - There’s an easy fix!! Put your content in one table, and your links in the table below it, and viola! The columns from the article table will stack on top of each other when it renders on a small browser window, and I won’t have to scroll through all of the links at the bottom of the first column to get to the articles at the top of the second one.

It’s twenty three flicks of the scroll wheel on a Blackberry to get to the second set of articles (I counted). Do it for my index finger, Matt.