I noticed this evening that my feed wasn’t updating for the site. Of course it bugged me. Took me a couple of hours of code searching, bug hunting and racking my brain to think what changes I had made in the last 48 hours to finally figure out that a small piece of code I had implemented a day or two ago was messing everything up.
The ironic part is that it was code to make my feed a little better. I had implemented a little code to put a delay on my feed by 3 minutes from the time of publishing since I have a tendency to poorly proofread until after I hit the publish button. Go figure. So, back to the old and my apologies for any typos in advance.
One other note, it isn’t perfect but I have implemented some fixes for IE6 users. It’s pretty normal that some things don’t line up but most everything is at least close. The sidebar at least sits on the side now and not at the bottom. I still have about 10% of my visitors using IE6. I don’t love any of you less personally, just technologically. I promise you’d feel better if you browsed better.
I can only think of two reasons why are still using IE6.
1. You can’t upgrade your browser due to company policy
2. You don’t know what browser you’re using or even how to check
Sorry, I can only help with #2. Go to Help -> About Internet Explorer. Now go download the ‘fox.
I would love to be able to conceptualize the detail in any one of these icons prior to construction of it. Amazing Illustrator work, re-affirms my need for a tablet. Not that I could produce anything on that level if I had one though.
Similar to owning a house, in the web business, you become easily tied to your web host. Fortunately, I bought good when I got in. In both house and web hosting.
Unfortunately, being tied to my host as much as I am, I don’t have a whole lot of choice when places like Media Temple offer what they do. I really don’t have any idea about their service or up-time (both key ingredients in the web business) but I do know that they do their best to look like the best hosting company out there. And offer things I have never seen from a web host. Like gift cards for the holidays. (more…)
When I am slightly more coherent, my plan is to make a little bit longer of a write-up. Until then, welcome to my new Internet home. It has been a long time coming. Far too long. The freedom I speak of was the ability to create what I wanted, exactly the way I wanted it. I was the client.
The quick skinny:
Built from the ground up. No template here.
Minimalist design with the possibility of small tweaks coming here and there.
Haven’t even touched IE6 yet to test. Please don’t look at it in IE6. Better yet, quit using IE6
No, your eyes aren’t bugging out, the posts actually fade in color as they get older.
Fair amount of JavaScript, CSS, JQuery and magic dust to get everything the way I wanted it
More changes likely. It was at a usable stage and I was tired of the other one, so I posted it.