I’ve been writing about my switch to textpattern for the past week or so and have been playing around quite with the functionality and design of this site. After using a temp design by Stuart I finally got around to setting something up on my own. After getting it all setup on my Powerbook G4 in Safari and Firefox I went live and boom! sure enough it looks like crap in IE.
I should have known that a few things wouldn’t work right, but I didn’t expect to see it that messed up. So here are the things that I saw right away.
- PNG graphics are totally messed up. The rendering of transparent backgrounds in .gif’s isn’t the best thing on the planet so I opted for .png’s. But the .png graphics looked horrible!
- CSS – My styles were totally messed up! Borders look horrible in IE. They look great on my mac, but oh my, on a PC it’s a disaster! The colors don’t render correctly (that’s my fault for not using web safe colors), the nav bar just flat didn’t work and thats just the beginning!
- The nifty rounded corner script I’m using didn’t work correctly on the main content window
- Spacing and margins are messed up..
- The list goes on!
So here what I did… I added a designed for Firefox and Safari at the bottom of the page, fixed the nav and decided to vent about it on the home page! I’ll get around to making a few things look better in ie over the next couple of days, but I’m not about to redesign the whole thing! I guess that’s a good lesson to us “programmer” types, design is harder than it looks! I’ll probably switch to regular borders and do a few other cosmetic changes, but beyond that switch to Firefox or better yet, Get A Mac!
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