Check out Joe’s Tutorial on holding a camera. A Gem this is: I strongly suggest you follow his blog. Every day I see his pics, i’m inspired to pick up my camera.
A webdesigner is frequently faced with the worried clients who wish to make their websites look the same in all browsers. In particular, that repulsive coffee stain that comes pre-installed with XP. Tragically, still being used by some underprivileged today -”Internet Explorer 6″ (for the blessed who cannot remember). It is the solemn duty then of a smart and sensible webdesigner to educate and explain to the client that porting their website to look the same in IE6 is simply not practical or worth the efforts.
The next time I’m required to build my case and convince a client to move away from IE6, i’ll simply ask them to read this post and these links:
- Some figures showing IE steadily on the decline
- 37signals (pioneers in webdesign and bringers of Basecamp) have stopped supporting IE6 in 2008
- Thorough reasoning/FAQ on dealing with IE6 by Andy Clarke of “for a beautiful web”
- Amazon killing support for IE6 as of end of March.
- Google Docs ending support on March 1st 2010
- and the coup de gras from beloved Google – Youtube killing support on 13th of March 2010.
If you’re reading this with IE6, I request you, NAY! I beg you….. atleast upgrade to a more later version like IE8 (i.e of course if your still adamant on not being sensible and choosing a superior alternative )
Disclaimer: Clients still wishing to port their websites in IE6 will have to bear the additional costs of therapy and treatment for mental trauma for webdesigners.
Redesigning a blog is never an easy task. It tends to get even more difficult when it’s your own blog that’s being redesigned. Days of sleeplessness have led to the culmination of the current blog’s theme. There are still a bunch of things that need to be changed. If you spot em, feel free to leave a comment. How I went about it, is for a separate post. I was anally particular about keeping my code clean. This let me to quickly change themes:
My previous Blog design:
An Applesque variation of the current theme:
Tried a Green look:
A light on dark theme, almost there:
After a couple of suggestions from a wise designer, I landed up with the theme you currently see. What do you think? let me know in the comments section. You can get there by clicking the comments bubble right at the top.
So I suddenly got on this high yesterday night to get my very first moleskines (New Years…. Resolutions… ToDos…. ). Me and my brother header out at 1a.m today morning to get the goodies. For the similarly inspired your voyage ends at Sultan Center, Salmiyah. They have a very nice pretty stand just for moleskines. I wouldn’t have found this, if not for this really cool Kuwaiti-blog 248a.m, which ironically happens to be the time I got back home this morning. I’ll put up pics of my moleskine as I start to fill ‘em up (Oh did I not mention? I bought 3 : the plain squared notebook (soft cover), the reporter style-plain and the mini-3 book squared varieties). Be warned though, a moleskine is ABSURDLY costly. The damn thing costed me KD 3.350. That’s Kuwaiti Dinars btw. Google “3.350 KWD to USD/INR” and you’ll understand what I mean.
Why the moleskine is so great? Absolute hype. I don’t see anything that a mini-spiral pad off the counter couldn’t satisfy that a moleskine can, except the ultra cool feeling of actually having a moleskine :P . Will I buy another one? Hell Yeah!.
