IE6 – CSS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What a pain in the… IE6 and it’s implementation of CSS just plain sucks! In most cases you can work around it. However, I was showing off my blog at work today, bragging about WordPress 2.7, the theme, plugins etc. – not even thinking that we have not upgraded Internet Explorer beyound version 6. (All sorts of reason I don’t want to get into). The point is my blog didn’t look so hot.
As a developer I should have at least checked it out. I have software that I check my sites with. IETester
I checked with the author of the Fusion (by digitalnature.ro) theme and it specifically stated that time permitting it could support IE6 (if enough users requested it) so… my bad
No slight on the theme’s author as it is still an exceptional job. One of the best themes out there!
Update: Version 1.3 of the Fusion theme now supports IE 5.5 and IE6…
WordPress 2.7
I’ve been building websites for some time now and I’ve tried to encourage my customers to manage their own content. The problem is, CMS (Content Management Systems) while in my opinion are quite simple to use, they are in fact intimidating for the average customer. They would rather have you manage their content. Even though they know their product best. In most cases they don’t understand that even the simplest changes to their content requires time and effort and therefore should incur a cost.
Google’s Picasa 3
http://picasaweb.google.ca/marc.chabot/Cuba2009
Those folks at Google are constantly building and upgrading software for the masses. Always growing and improving. I'm sure I contribute to their wealth somehow – but I'm at a loss how 