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pinkclouds

steve1980 wrote: »

Just looked at your website and it's a bit (ok, very!) off center!

Is the code broken in your browser? If so, I'd appreciate the browser/OS so I can bugfix. If it's the design, then I'll accept that as constructive criticism. It is actually currently coded to a 3 column layout with nothing in the third column... I had been thinking about some content there but accept it may look off-balanced as it is.

jexygirl wrote: »

I think the OP focusses alot on coding skills, so I figured it was like a witty addon to show coding perhaps?

The characters in brackets are the accesskeys. Possibly it is way OTT to have the rollover display as I have already underlined the accesskey characters in the links. I think I'll remove the rollover addition - it was intended to assist rather than irritate.

(Btw, "accesskeys" are keyboard shortcuts that aid navigation for some people. It's not something you'd be aware of unless you routinely need to use them. It's just an accessibility feature supported in some browsers.)

And, yes, I do focus a lot on coding skills. I think people tend to be more interested in the visual front-end than the back-end code that makes everything work. It's frustrating but understandable. After all, I'm not that interested in the electronics inside my MacBook but I wouldn't enjoy using it if it wasn't pretty and didn't function.

pinkclouds

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just looked, it's like an optical illusion... it started swimming in front of my eyes within 15 seconds.
What's going on with the navigational rollovers? There are some characters in brackets.

I've just snipped that rollover effect out. (If you revisit to check then you may need to refresh the page to replace the cached copy in your browser. Not that you have to revisit me - just thought I'm preempt a question!)

steve1980

Win XP on IE6

debbie42

IE6??????
Run for the hills ;-)

steve1980

debbie42 wrote: »

IE6??????
Run for the hills ;-)

A lot of work places still use it.

debbie42

I know, but I don't have to like it!

pinkclouds

steve1980 wrote: »

A lot of work places still use it.

Thanks for the screenshot and browser/OS details. I might have guessed. lol

I will start debugging...

steve1980

pinkclouds wrote: »

Thanks for the screenshot and browser/OS details. I might have guessed. lol

I will start debugging...

It's not really a debug, you just need to add the IE6 css file in.

This should help.

http://www.onderhond.com/tools/ie6fixer/

Seraphim

pinkclouds wrote: »

Thanks for the screenshot and browser/OS details. I might have guessed. lol

I will start debugging...

You might want to give this a go: http://browsershots.org/
Free online tool where you type in the website and wait and it will produce you screenshots of your site on different browser/OS configurations.

debbie42

You might have heard of it, but it's probably worth mentioning IETester: useful if you don't have older versions of IE hanging around.