mkjones

My new site design is finally done

Thankfully it didn’t take long to hack in some IE6 CSS to fix the navigation and problems with the footer.

What DID take ages however was hacking IE6 to see through my transparent PNGs.

For months I have been messing around with code such as:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(...);

Only to no avail. It just didn’t work how I wanted it to. I tried everything but in the end I went back to PNG-8

Welcome - iepngfix.htc

Today however I gave up with AplhaImageLoader and tried out the wonderful iepngfix.htc file.

It worked perfectly and thanks to this and this site, I was able to get my PNG’s see through and fancy free by 2:31am Tuesday… phew…

Well, I got around to re-designing my blog. I’ve had this design stuck in Photoshop for about 2 months now waiting to be chopped and CSSed over my old manky look.

Not Ready

At the moment the design is FAR from perfect. I have NO details on my About page, my Archive doesn’t work AND worst of all the design is TOTALLY NON BROWSER COMPATIBLE

In IE7 the Nav bar goes a little crazy and I imagine IE6 is no better as I’m using transparent PNG’s without any kind of hacks, nasty I know.

BUT I thought it better to get the design out there and on the site while I could. I had my FIRST free Saturday afternoon in ages so I decided I would sit back, watch the new Wargames sequel and thrash out my new design.

I hope everyone enjoys it a lot more that I did the Wargames sequel, man that was a bad film.

I’m tired now and the TV/Sofa is calling me downstairs for some me-time. I shall be back to fix my bugs and polish my nuts when I get the chance.

I finally got round to upgrading to WordPress 2.5 in anticipation of my new theme.

Been working on it on and off for a couple of weeks now. I figured it was about time I got some practice in or WP360 would never get anywhere fast.

Keep a look out for the smashing new look soon…

The Inquirer reported yesterday that Intel have decided that they will ‘never’ deploy Vista on any of their corporate network.

What will hurt Microsoft the most is the answer Intel gave when asked what they will use instead of Vista:

The official answer is ‘nothing yet’, the one where they try not to offend is ‘likely Windows 7′,

Its a case of Windows 7 strikes again. And Microsoft are to blame. THEY are the ones who have seeded the Windows 7 idea into the tech market and any users out there who are put off by Vista are bound to anchor down and wait for the next version.

It seems that every day Vista becomes more and more like Windows ME.

I really wanted to download Firefox 3 yesterday. I waited all day for the update to appear on the website but nothing came so I logged off for the day, went to the pool and then relaxed with Euro 2008 for the evening.

Today I noticed that I had this email:

Check the time, go on, it says 6:35 PM last night. Now, I wasn’t online at this time. I was neck deep in chlorine infested water trying to work out why the pool was so busy for a Tuesday night.

Anyway, my point is they failed. I wanted to be part of the Firefox 3 download day thing but they messed up by sending the notification email at a truly stupid time when clearly between 9-5 would have been the sensible choice.

What they should have done is mailed me 2 days ago with a link to the site of a UK based (fast) download and the time at which they were planning to allow downloads to start. THEN I could have scheduled my time to at least check my email before I let the day end.

Hell, they could have even opened up a torrent file on the site so I could set it going and left it to download the file when they started seeding.

Unfortunately I won’t be upgrading to FF3 today. Or tomorrow actually. Not because of this scheduling mishap but because it seems that a few key add-ons which I use daily are not yet compatible.

Not that I won’t download it. In fact, if I download it from work AND then from home, does that count as 2?