This is the first post of the ‘blog’ section of the site.
I don’t really know what direction I want this chunk of the site to go at the moment, I might be a selection of things that have interested me, posts on how I have overcome problems that have stood in my way, or just somewhere I can rant, but I will just have to try to make sure that I keep posing bits here regularly as I usually forget after a while!
I defiantly wont be having one of those blogs where I go on about what I’m eating, who I’m dating that sort of crap, because if this site is actually good and people visit it, then the chances are you wont know me, so why would you want to know if I had a curry for tea? and if you do want to know that I think you have more problems than a simple blog can fix.
If I haven’t insulted/offended you with that last statement you might wonder what IE (internet explorer, for the new) and wasted time have in common. I shall tell you, as you cant have IE without some form of wasted time, this is one of the laws of the modern internet.
IE is the big daddy in the web browser world at the moment (but that is changing) and because of this has created its own set of rules on how to display a web page.
So What?
I’m glad you asked. Why could this be a problem? It might not be one for you directly but it is a big problem for me, as I make web pages for a job, and this is my blog, so it is important.
It means that when I code a page, I have to test it in Firefox it looks nice, everything is lined up and I feel happy. I then have to test the page in as many web apps as I can find (currently 12!!) to see if it still looks pretty in them, for the most part they look the same in all the browsers apart form IE, this means I have to then spend time creating new styles just for this browser, and it usually takes forever to get it right and I have to make sure it doesn’t brake the site in the browsers that I already worked in. Hopefully IE 8 will fix this, or it might just create a whole new set of problems (I will just have to wait till it is released)
I am currently working my way through creating my first wordpress plugin at the moment, I have got the hang of making templates for it so this is a good thing to move onto. Making a plugin seems to be a bit more difficult as there doesn’t seem to be a ‘all in one’ guide on how to start to make one, so I think that might be a good place to start for my tutorial section (when I get round to making one!).