One easy method to get more readers

Internet Explorer logoI realised in the last couple of days that miLienzo.com isn’t working very well in Internet Explorer. Ooops! Not very clever from someone asserting to know their stuff on web and design matters.

I’m sure when I built the site I checked across a few browsers and it worked fine, but along the line somewhere the formatting has gone skew in IE.

A few blogs I regularly read have been updating or tweaking their designs, such as Chanpory Rith’s LifeClever, David Airey’s Creative Design, Glen Wolsey’s blog and also Smashing Magazine.

So given the fact that it seems to be the trendy thing to do (and the fundamental flaw that some 90% of the Internet can’t view my site how I intend), I am taking inspiration from the above blogs and completely redesigning miLienzo.com from scratch.

Over the coming weeks posts may be few and far between, but please have patience. The end result will look a lot cleaner and less cluttered, be more usable and functional, and be accessible to some 756 million extra users. Everyone’s a winner really.

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6 fantastic comments

I’m looking forward to seeing the new design. :)

Thanks for the mention Aaron.

I’m thinking that I need to take a look into this - our site is sometimes showing up with the navigation column not on the left hand side. If you know wnyone with some ideas… that would be great.

Matt - I pin-pointed my problems to the Sociable plugin, which I notice you are using as well. I had modded mine so I may have broke it, but it’s worth disabling the plugin and seeing if the problem still occurs.

Failing that I also notice your site isn’t validating. (http://validator.w3.org/) Try investigating that and it may help.

Aaron,

Thanks for the heads up - i’ll go look into that - I hadn’t modded that plugin at all - but i’m thinking i might disable it and just stick with the share this plugin - which ‘cross fingers’ I have not had any problems with.

thanks for the heads up.

matt

I hardly ever use IE, so thanks. Reading this I thought ‘better check it all still works’ because like you I’d made sure the template was fine in IE when I launched it, but haven’t checked since.
Turns out my footer was appearing halfway up the page in IE7 (it was fine in IE6).
Fixed now. I wonder how long it was looking broken for though…

Hi Steve - thanks for commenting. I’m really glad my article prompted you to check for, and subsequently iron out, any problems.

The biggest problem for me now is IE6 because I hastily installed IE7 when it was launched. They behave quite differently and I can only check for problems when I’m at work.

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