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New Design is online. As you’ve probably noticed

There are a few issues to deal with - the transparent .png files don’t work in IE6, which 17% of my visitors still use. While I’d love to do my part to help kill off that browser, instead I’ll have to fix that. I’ve implemented a quick javascript fix, but i suspect I’l have to convert some of the .png files to .gif.

My biggest issue seems to be getting Wordpress commands to run inside Posts - this was working prior to upgrading Wordpress a few weeks ago, and means that at the minute my custom links and content pages are pretty much useless. Hopefully I’ll get this sorted fairly quickly.

Edit: All the content seems to now be working, and I’ve uploaded .gif versions of some images to hopefully sort out the IE6 issues.

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2 Responses to “New Design is online. As you’ve probably noticed”

  1. David Ostman Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Good job on the design, it really looks good. I’ve battled the PNG issue for years now, so I can feel the pain, and I have to admire your dedication by giving that 17% GIFs. I would have put up a header bar saying, “The reason this website looks crap is your fault, not mine, so do us both a favour and update to IE7, or use Firefox/Opera.” :P

  2. Rick Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Cheers David!

    My two biggest issues were the IE6 users, and the bandwidth that the images were using. On of the good side effects of catering for the IE6 users however was that I realised that the GIF images I had created for the left and right sides of the header worked much better than I had expected, so with a little editing I was able to replace the 150k PNG images with 30K of GIFs - everyone’s a winner!

    I can still shave a few K off, but I’ll not bother since the work required for the end result is a waste of time.

    I still have to format the comments correctly, they were a bit…weak at the moment.

Thoughts on this?