Huzzarrrr
We has lab website.
I designed it on Firefox on a Mac, because I use a 24" iMac at work (yes, yes, I know, how ironic, to those of you who are Mac users and have had to listen to my incessant bitching for years; I am still adamant about owning a PC, but I admit that there are some pretty handy features about the Mac that make web design a fuck of a lot easier.)
I finished it, and I felt pretty good about it; there are aspects of it that I would have changed if it were entirely my decision, but all in all it pleases me. And all of the HTML has been painstakingly validated by the W3C HTML Validation service.
Then I tried it on the one PC in the lab, which is hooked up to a piece of machinery and therefore intended to serve no purpose other than using that machine. It's very bare bones. Its only browser is IE6 (OH GOD I HATE IE, AND I ESPECIALLY CANNOT STAND ANYTHING EARLIER THAN IE7) but this made it useful. How would the website look to someone who uses IE, which is a web designer's nightmare?
Answer: It looks like shit.
I wasn't about to retool things for the likes of IE, hell no, so I looked up browser detection and found a really handy trick called Conditional Comments. Basically you can have differentiated content for browsers using only a comment tag. It's my new best friend.
So I've made the website serviceable to IE users, but I'm not going to bend over backwards fixing the images and stuff.
Long story short. I made a website. :D Which is something I haven't done since my goth high school days. And the days when I still made Sailor Moon fansites. I love it! I need to start doing it again.
I designed it on Firefox on a Mac, because I use a 24" iMac at work (yes, yes, I know, how ironic, to those of you who are Mac users and have had to listen to my incessant bitching for years; I am still adamant about owning a PC, but I admit that there are some pretty handy features about the Mac that make web design a fuck of a lot easier.)
I finished it, and I felt pretty good about it; there are aspects of it that I would have changed if it were entirely my decision, but all in all it pleases me. And all of the HTML has been painstakingly validated by the W3C HTML Validation service.
Then I tried it on the one PC in the lab, which is hooked up to a piece of machinery and therefore intended to serve no purpose other than using that machine. It's very bare bones. Its only browser is IE6 (OH GOD I HATE IE, AND I ESPECIALLY CANNOT STAND ANYTHING EARLIER THAN IE7) but this made it useful. How would the website look to someone who uses IE, which is a web designer's nightmare?
Answer: It looks like shit.
I wasn't about to retool things for the likes of IE, hell no, so I looked up browser detection and found a really handy trick called Conditional Comments. Basically you can have differentiated content for browsers using only a comment tag. It's my new best friend.
So I've made the website serviceable to IE users, but I'm not going to bend over backwards fixing the images and stuff.
Long story short. I made a website. :D Which is something I haven't done since my goth high school days. And the days when I still made Sailor Moon fansites. I love it! I need to start doing it again.