Tag Archives: “web design”
IE8 Passes Acid2 Test
Many of us web designers/developers never thought we’d witness Internet Explorer pass the Acid2 rendering test but Microsoft announced yesterday via IEBlog that their internal version of IE8 has done just that. Now if they could push this browser out sooner, it’d be great because the sooner IE6 gets ditched, the better.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Sometime tonight or tomorrow I’ll be upgrading the site to the latest version of Wordpress so you may notice issues with website access during the upgrade. Chances are you won’t even notice, but this is just a heads up. I’m also making a couple of changes on the backend to lay the groundwork for a complete redesign sometime in the near future. I’ll also be recoding the XHTML/CSS and the Wordpress theme, changing the navigation, and moving all the static pages over to Wordpress Pages. There will be some visual changes, but nothing too dramatic.
Safari on Windows
Apple released a new beta version of their Safari web browser yesterday. Normally this news wouldn’t be that important to me but this new version now works on Windows! As a web developer this is great news because now I don’t need to use/borrow/buy a Mac just to test my work in Safari. As I deal with larger projects it has increasingly become more important to test in Safari.
My Beautiful New Monitor and Web Design
Samsung 940Be
I recently purchased a Samsung 940Be which is a 19-inch LCD monitor. Thanks to the falling prices of LCD monitors and Newegg’s low prices, I got a really good deal. I was originally going to wait until the holiday season, but some time in the last couple of months, there was significant price drop. As with all my electronics/computer purchases, I did a lot of research online comparing features and reading reviews. Man, I LOVE this thing. The viewable space is HUGE and it is so BRIGHT. So much more working space, it makes my web development work much easier too.