Archive for June, 2008

Im in Smashing Magazine

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

So I entered this site in a contest held by Smashing Magazine. There were some really good designs in the contest. Surprisingly I am 10th one down from the top out of about 60 chosen websites! Woot! To enter to win the prize ( a huge Apple cinema display ) I needed to place the words “Smashing Magazine” in the site somewhere. The first post in the new site was about this contest and I had the words “Smashing Magazine” in there but I guess they missed it or since it wasn’t on the home page it wasn’t enough to get me in the contest. Oh well though. I am thrilled I made it in the showcase sites! 
View the Smashing Magazine article here

Help IE Render Normal

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I ran into this little javascript file a while back and include it in all of my websites now. It’s called ie8.js and it helps IE6 and IE7 render like a normal standard compliant browser should. It is still in beta but it is very impressive. One example of what it can do is that I can now get IE to recognize the css :hover on tags that aren’t <a> tags. I also have noticed I use a lot less IE css fixes because it follows the box model a lot more like it should. It also fixes the png problem for IE6. It is simply wonderful.

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/