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A couple of days ago I finally checked out my current site on my PC at work. Sure, I could have tried IE7 through the magic of Fusion, but I don’t have my History of Internet Explorer VM on my MacBook Pro. I like their products as much as the next geek, but seriously — where the hell is my snapshot manager?

Anyway, my website. I learned something important when I looked at it in both IE6 and IE7. Okay, I learned two things. First, the background was more peculiar in IE7 than IE6. Strangely, the background was doing what it was supposed to in IE6. In IE7, on the other hand, the entire page flipped from the main background to the footer background whenever the top pixel of the footer was above a certain point.

Second, the color was wrong. If your monitor’s color reproduction matches the one I have at work, the simple, light green gradient is gone, and The History of Human Nausea expressed as a 182 byte PNG takes its place. Otherwise, things looked okay. I haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to switch to colors that degrade gracefully or just declare certain monitors as too lousy to bother with. I’ll probably fix the IE7 issue though. Eventually.

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Aside from the normal messing around with my style sheets, I added an early version of a Pepper I’m working on this week. I had a QuickTime checker in there before, but it was triggering the information bar in IE. Sure, “works in IE” isn’t exactly my driving concern here, but still. Let me know if you see any new¹ errors, warnings, or lost goats wandering around my website.

Speaking of IE, I haven’t looked at my latest style sheets in IE, so the whole place could be an unintelligible mess for all I know. Visually, I mean. You know — for different reasons than it usually is.

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I’ve been messing with my site again, so don’t be shocked the next time you go to the actual web page. The color scheme is almost certainly not final — its just some random set of light-on-dark colors produced by fiddling with the color picker in TextMate.

Aside from the obvious throwing stuff around the page willy-nilly and splashing geegaw colors on everything, features include:

• A Tag Cloud. I was getting a lot of threatening phone calls
  from the Web 2.0 police for not having one, and my
  cat just couldn’t stand the stress any longer.
• Breadcrumbs. Sometimes. They don’t work properly in pages yet.
  In fact, they don’t work properly anywhere other than date
  archives and single entries.
• Asides. You wouldn’t know from how things look in the feed,
  but my site presents asides differently from regular posts.
  Oh, and I might start doing them.
• The footer no longer claims I haven’t written anything in two
  years. Then again, maybe I haven’t written anything in
  two years. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
• What little of consequence you could formerly do from my
  archives page you can now do from every page. So don’t
  bother going to the archives page to do it. You don’t
  need it. And it isn’t one to go to.
• Broken Stuff. I don’t know what or where, but I assume there
  is some. And there’s probably twice as much of it for people
  who still use IE, although I doubt any of them read my
  blog.

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