Slimming for the Beach

If you’ve been here before you might notice the ongo­ing inte­gra­tion of my web­sites and blogs, under the benign canopy of Word­Press I’m mak­ing fair progress, but need­less to say it all looks a mess in Inter­net Explorer 6. How I hate that piece of soft­ware. It rates up there as one of the five best ways to waste your life.
I’ve no way of test­ing it in IE7, which I hear is more attuned to web stan­dards, but hope­fully you lucky Vista peo­ple are see­ing this site the way it was meant to be seen.

I’ll fig­ure out a way to sat­isfy IE6 next week, hopefully.

Update: I fig­ured out the main prob­lem with IE6. For those of you inter­ested in such things it was a mat­ter of increas­ing the padding in the css, enough to push the title down enough to make it visible.

Re the prob­lem of see­ing it in IE6, Fer­gus Cas­sidy con­tacted me to rec­om­mend Browsershots.org

It’s a great open source ser­vice which shows you how your site looks in prac­ti­cally every browser. In the mean­time I dis­cov­ered another great ser­vice,
NetRen­derer, which only tests IE 6 and 7 (and the dif­fer­ences between them) but has the advan­tage over Browser­shots in that it is almost instan­ta­neous, whereas with Browser­shots you can wait up to half an hour for the result.

Inci­den­tally, the same padding bug is in both IE6 and IE7.

Any­way, thanks Fer­gus, for going to the trou­ble of pass­ing on that link.