Redesign in Progress

Visitors to The Map Room may have noticed some screwy things going on today. I got it into my head to redesign this site, live. (No safe, out-of-the-way test sites for me, no sir.) The bulk of the work is now done, but there are still a few things to finish (such as a new contact page), and I’m sure I’ll be tweaking it for a while until I’m satisfied. I also still have to see whether there are any problems in Internet Explorer, which I don’t have access to here in my PC-free home; I’m sure there will be, and I’ll check that tomorrow. (I have tested this design in Firefox and Safari, either of which is preferable to IE and both of which display lots of rounded corners, which IE doesn’t support.)

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM
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Always glad to hear somebody else raising cain over IE! I pulled it up under IE 6.0 just to check, and everything looked fine in terms of layout, CSS, etc. Cheers!

[TypeKey Profile Page] PostMapper | 01/28/2008 at 10:32 PM | #

Try this:

http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

[TypeKey Profile Page] Matthew | 01/28/2008 at 10:45 PM | #

This extension allows you to try IE within FF…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

[TypeKey Profile Page] Rich Owings | 01/29/2008 at 10:42 AM | #

The extension appears to be Windows-only, Rich, which doesn’t help me in my case. (If I was running Windows, I’d probably just fire up IE.) In any event, I was able to check it under IE 6.0 today, and almost everything seemed all right, except for the tables in the directory section — which was something I could fix with a line of CSS.

I’m really amazed. Usually my redesigns are much more incompetently done.

[TypeKey Profile Page] Jonathan Crowe | 01/29/2008 at 7:04 PM | #

Oh, and thanks for your tips and feedback everyone!

[TypeKey Profile Page] Jonathan Crowe | 01/29/2008 at 7:06 PM | #

I thought this site was non-smoking. What is this little smoking head-and-shoulders icon doing in bottom right?

And do we need bounds on the postings? Should there be boxes around the postings to further frustrate our clip-and-print service to ASCII printers?

What this IE? We all use Lynx, in the Blynx settings, or Opera browsers. W3M roolz!

[TypeKey Profile Page] Bill Lee | 01/30/2008 at 7:17 PM | #

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