I am in the process of moving the domain for this site to another registrar. This task is always exciting – if I get it right, there will be no down time, but if the site goes off the air, you’ll know why.
Continue ReadingIE 8 Compatibility View
As a UNIX / Linux bigot, I don’t use Internet Explorer much. As a web developer, I need to test as many browsers as possible. The matrix for all the possible browser / version combinations is pretty daunting already, and adding the IE 8 compatibility view to the mix doesn’t help. If your customer complains of hosed web pages, check the configuration under Tools -> Compatibility View Settings, and have him / her turn off all the check boxes at the bottom of the form. References: Microsoft Blog Microsoft IE 8 Features Wikipedia
Continue ReadingTheme Thrashing
I’ve never been entirely satisfied with the way my blog looks – it still feels “hard to read”, and I’m not sure how to fix that, except to experiment with some other two-column, fixed-width WP themes. So, the site will be undergoing some changes whilst I play around a bit with the look and feel. Thanks for your understanding. Regards, Chris “Tweaker” Lehman
Continue ReadingA New Look for the Web Site
My mostly static web site was hacked together about 5 years ago with straight HTML tags using the XEmacs editor. To say the least, it was starting to look pretty frayed around the edges, not to mention boring. My ISP doesn’t support Rails sites well – they are a shared hosting ISP, with the main mission to be as inexpensive as possible, and they do that very well. Works for me. So, I started looking around for something that could generate and maintain a static web site. I found this article on Andy Atkinson’s blog; a nice overview of 5 Ruby-based generators. Sweet! Andy wasn’t real impressed with webgen, but… Read More
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