Comments on: Site Redesign

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:04:19 +0000

Wow, thanks Mike. That’s nice to hear. And yeah, IE on Mac is dead. Didn’t they even discontinue development of it?

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:44:12 +0000

Simon, this is a great reworking of what was already a brilliant site. Not just the best Ballard site, but probably the best site of its kind on the web – we just don’t tell you that enough!

Oh and it looks good in IE on Windows, don’t bother with IE on Mac, nobody else does…

By: Crashman

Crashman — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:28:44 +0000

Thmbs up for Firefox Version 2.0.0.11 On an M$xp PC.

By: Hinton

Hinton — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:35:45 +0000

Looks great on 22” display, IE7, Windows Vista.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:56:38 +0000

Vaughan, i do know what you mean by the links on the front page. I’m working on a fix.

By: Supervert

Supervert — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:48:14 +0000

Looks great, Simon. Safari / Leopard.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:42:27 +0000

Vaughan — cool your boots, man! John is correct: I was referring to Explorer on a Mac. I’m not slandering PCs, and I only use a Mac out of habit. As you and Mike H. have confirmed, it looks great with IE 6.0 & 7 on Windows so I’m happy.

By: John Lunney

John Lunney — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:45:58 +0000

Vaughan,
I think he was slandering IE on the Mac specifically. It’s a very different browser from its PC cousin, and the rendering engine is pretty insane. IE on the PC is a lot better than it used to be, IE on the Mac died a death.

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:04:37 +0000

Simon – looks great with IE 6.0 running on Windows XP!

(I remember using Opera for a couple of years when it was the ‘cool’ browser, but could never quite get used to it for some reason).

By: Vaughan

Vaughan — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:50:24 +0000

Well, I know full well how painful site redesigns can be, so I’m glad you pulled through this one!

On IE, while MS come in for a lot of hate (especially from Mac people who basically seem to have PC envy and an over evolved sense of superiority, only feeling truly good about themselves while attacked the other OS) you have to face the fact that the majority of net users have IE. But excluding IE from consideration you threaten to alienate the site a bit. I’m sure you have the numbers on which browsers your viewers use, please do kep it in mind. Personally I happen to think IE is pretty lame – it’s too slow, and the tab feature is particularly poor. BUt I have to face the truth about what others use.

Moving on from that, the redesign looks reasonably good. I’m somewhat bothered by the front page, where the link lists on the right go down way beyond the front page text, making it seem unbalanced. The content, as usual, is excellent.

Anyway – it works fine in my IE (IE 7.0 running Windows 2003 Server), and also on Opera (version 9.24). Opera is my favored browser, but as is common in Internet circles, some pieces of software grab the “cool” tag, and Opera, sadly, has been the greatest loser against the likes of Firefox. Pity, it’s a wonderful thing!

Anyway -enough preaching. Honestly, the main point of my coming on here was simply to confirm that IE on the PC and Opera on the PS render the site correctly. So there you go.