Tired of trying to get your site to work in IE6?
I think the guys behind http://iedeathmarch.org/ have the right idea. As most web designer types on it can be a real pain in the backside to get your site that took you enough hours to fix in IE7, Firefox 2 or 3 and Safari to then work in IE6.
Myself, I’ve had to introduce so many ie6.css styles I try not to think about it any more. I almost rock myself to sleep and night.
As the guys state, Even Nintendo’s Gamecube which lasted all off a year if that is younger than IE6 and Nintendo were clever enough to kill it off when they noticed the public weren’t buying them.
Mr Stocks has also clamped down by stating any client work will have IE6 support for an optional extra. Which is a neat little idea. Is it really that hard to update to IE7 or move over to Firefox maybe even Opera?
I know, from this day forth any of my projects, including the Web Developers Conference won’t support IE6 when new designs, fixes come along and it only just works now.The only problem I see is how do we promote switching to other browsers? Do we stick huge signs over our sites stating they need to upgrade to IE7 or something? Do we remove all styling and leave IE6 users with a text site? Or will we break under the pressure of having to support IE6 for life?
RSS Feed in an Image.
On my, what now seems like daily reading of Apartment Therapy I came across Wordle a great little site which will turn a load of text, an RSS feed or other things in to a pretty image.
Below you can see what it do to my RSS Feed.
Why Customer Service shouldn’t be overlooked…
I’m sure if you’re reading this you’ve heard of Moo amoung others.
Last week I moved house (being a student sucks having to move year after year), unlike last year which has us moaning at our landlords for 2 weeks to get the Internet hooked up. I was able to sort it out myself. I know it’s not a big deal and I’ve done it before so it was nothing “new”.
Anyway, I had to shop around for the best connection, price, set up cost etc. I had to because the housemates I’m with (one of which is the misses) didn’t want to have to fork out a small fortune for a connection. After a few hours of looking around at guys like Pipex (who are now Tiscalli, so I ran like the wind), Mad as a Fish, Eclipse and TitanADSL I couldn’t warrent spending £25-£30 a month for “up to 8 megs Broadband” along with a set up charge of £30-£50.
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Thinking of becoming a Web designer after University?
I know this is on my mind for when I finally leave the life of education and I’m sure its on the mind of many others too.
What does it take to be employed as a Web designer? After coming across the Boagworld.com podcast. I was reading through some recent news and other bits on the site and came across Andy Rutledge’s blog post about the “Employable Web Designer”. So if you’re wondering about what to do as as well as waiting for this years WDC to see what’s going on in the world of the web have a read and take some notes.
Almost daily I receive one or more emails from design students and aspiring Web designers unsure about their current education. They’re concerned that what they’re learning will not sufficiently prepare them for the real world. They fear they’re being taught outdated practices, or simply that their curriculum focuses on the wrong things.