04 Friday Jan 2008
Posted in blogging, books & writing
Healingmagichands started a page last year to list all the books she read in 2007, which I meant to copy emulate but didn’t get round to doing. And so I thought I’d try it this year because I think it would be nice to have a record of what I’ve read. So it will be on this page , which can also be found in the top right hand corner.
I’ll be updating it here from time to time. Usually on a monthly basis or else whenever I need a quick post to keep up with my blog 365 commitment.
27 Thursday Dec 2007
Posted in blogging
27 Thursday Dec 2007
Posted in blogging
Why does anybody still use Internet Explorer?
I’ve recently changed my theme due to some viewing problems that were brought to my attention, specifically to do with the page set up going all wonky on IE if someone was using either a widescreen monitor or larger sized text than ‘normal’ (and at least one other theme I know of has this same problem). So after trying out several new themes I decided to go with this one because when I first tested it out on IE it was working fine. But now the right sidebar has slipped over to the bottom left-hand side of the page for some damned stupid reason … grrrrr. I started using Firefox ages ago and find it so superior to IE that I don’t understand why everyone hasn’t switched over by now, though of course I do understand that people at work or using public computers might not have this option.
For the record, I’ve just tested this page on Firefox and the set up only starts distorting if I increase the text size x3 (which is pretty damn big … I reckon x2 should be plenty for anyone who is more comfortable with larger text).
So hey, why not try out Firefox if you haven’t already and let me know what you think?
19 Wednesday Dec 2007
Posted in blogging
. . . is the name of this theme.
And it seems to work fine on all browsers/screens. Except I miss my photo header of the Gaudí tiles.
What do you think?
18 Tuesday Dec 2007
~ SB 17″ widescreen ~ 
~ Nog’s 15″ laptop ~ 
~ Jaguar 15″ desktop ~ 
IE screens on the left, Firefox on the right, all using medium/normal text size.
Further to the previous post … this is getting a bit confusing but it seems the problem is using IE with a widescreen (I think nursemyra also noticed this on FFE’s blog). Since I’ve always used Firefox for my blogs I’ve never seen any difference, including when I switched from the Jag’s 15″ desktop screen to SB’s 17″ widescreen. And the same when I’ve used Nog’s laptop as I’ve never used IE for the blogs. But it seems that on IE things get all screwed up on the widescreen. I’m assuming that John’s problem with the text overlapping is because he is using a larger text size (though I don’t know this for sure).
It’s quite frustrating to discover that the layout on casa az is so unstable, especially when I take so much care with how I set it all up. Heck, since we can’t justify text here on WordPress I’ll even re-write text so that the margins look more even. And now I find out that everyone is seeing the blog totally differently.
So it seems my options are to either change to a theme that doesn’t go wonky on IE, or else maybe put up a notice (perhaps a static front page?) that informs people that the blog is best viewed on Firefox with normal-sized text. What do you think I should do? I’m not even sure if it’s possible to find a theme that works properly on all browser/screen variables. And besides, I really like this theme . . .
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