IE7 Web Developers Nightmare

January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

IT Gears has an interesting article on IE7 incompatibilities.

Looks like the author ran into a few more of the incompatiblities that I have, although I was very displeased at the look of some of my web sites when I first saw them under IE7.

My earlier IE7 articles talk about some of those bugs (like the one with the center tag).

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under CSS, HTML, IE7, JavaScript, Visitor Experience 

Web Design Tools I Just Bought

January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Today I picked up a couple web design & marketing tools from Teri Champigny:

  • One-Time-Offer in a Box is designed to give us the coding we need to make one time offers to visitors, members and new subscribers to our sites and newsletters, and
  • Web Elements E-Z Tools for Webmasters. This package is designed to generate JavaScript interactive features for our websites.

At only $7 for both (Not $7 each!) and including master resale rights, this was a no-brainer.

The way I look at it, if even if I don’t resell them (and I probably won’t), I’ve bought a couple of nice packages for myself at a nice price.

A word of warning, though, if you want to get them - get them now. She’s set a limit on the number of copies she’ll sell — plus the site does a weekly special (this is this week’s special). One way or the other, this weekly special will soon be gone.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, JavaScript, Scripts, Usability, Web design tools 

I Hate IE7!

November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

For an “improved web browser,” Internet Explorer 7 has much in common with a stubborn mule. No matter what you want to do, it doesn’t want to do it right now.

If you happened to visit my Terry’s Computer Tips web site late this afternoon, you might have seen what I mean…

I made some tweaks to the site and was very happy with the results in Firefox. Then, I checked the pages in Opera. Again, it was great.

But, then I looked at it with IE7 — and found a mess.

Whether it was the absolute positioning changes that I was making, or perhaps a missing or extra <div> tag, or a glitch in the JavaScript, IE7 threw away almost all the content on the page and then laid out the rest of the page in a mess. Yet, Opera and Firefox displayed the pages perfectly.

I couldn’t revert to the earlier version fast enough to suit me — but I got there.

Gee, and I thought the strangenesses of IE6 were bad — at least it would usually display the contents in almost the right location.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under CSS, Firefox, HTML, IE7, JavaScript, Opera, Usability, Visitor Experience 

Drawing on the Web

September 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Welcome to my new web design blog. I’ve decided to post web design topics here, rather than interleaving them into my regular computer tips blog at Terry’s Computer Tips blog

The topics here will all be web design focused, and I expect them to include at least the following subjects:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Apache Web Server
  • Server Side Includes
  • PHP Scripting
  • JavaScript
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Getting Traffic
  • Inbound Links from other sites
  • Outbound Links to other sites
  • Text Editors
  • WYSIWYG Editors
  • Web Hosting
  • Monetizing Your Site
  • Google Adsense
  • Yahoo Publisher Network
  • Chitika eMiniMalls
  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Internet Marketing

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Apache Web Server, CSS, HTML, Internet Marketing, JavaScript, Monetizing Your Site, PHP Scripting, SEO, Server Side Includes, Text Editors, Traffic & Linking, WYSIWYG Editors, Web Hosting