IE7 spells trouble

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:31:00 -0600

Right now I "hate" IE7, after loosing several hours of worktime because of it. Our company website looked good in FireFox, Opera and previous versions of IE. However in IE7 some things looked not like they should, making the whole site look very crapy - not good for a web development company. However in my IE7 standalone it looked good, so in order to see the same as others, to be able to "debug" the site back in order I went on and downloaded the "real" IE7 update. I then had to restart the computer (after installing a web browser - sigh), opened up our site in it, and got the same mumbo-jumbo layout as others have reported. Time to try and solve what is wrong. Open up my trusted old Dreamweaver 8, and.... "Error conecting to site". What is this? Hmmm, username and password seems to have gone awol in my Dreamweaver site setups. Hm - trying to put them in there, and get a different error. Restarts DW and username and password is yet again gone. A colleague tell me he has had the same problems with DW lately as well. I think for a second and ask if the problems came after installing IE7, he thought for a second and said that it could indeed be so. A little Googling and behold... Installing IE7 can indeed mess up your Dreamweaver settings. So, being a bit quicker than me, my colleague after a while reports that installing the DW 8.0.2 updater fixes the issue. For him that is. After a while I find out that while the username and password no longer disapears, I still get an error trying to connect. I try to remove and create the site again - still same error. I've always set up sites creating "FTP and RDS Server" connection, as this is what I have found is the most efficient way of working with stuff on the server. I then, after suggestion from my colleague try to set it up as a "site" with exact the same ftp information, and behold it works. Well, now on to the task of getting our site to work in IE7 as well. I created a stylesheet for IE7 and included it like this:

Then it was just to try and find what could fix the problem. After a little while the following piece of code was all that was needed to fix everything:


#articlewrapper2_subpage1 {
	min-height: 200px;
	}

So now I "hate" IE7, not so much for breaking a layout that was from before working in all browsers. That was kind of expected. But messing up my Dreamweaver settings - now that is unforgiveable.

Comprehensive directory of design resources

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:33:00 -0600

As a response to my "five minutes ago post" my colleague showed me a directory site, not only over font sites, but stock photography, icons, clip-art and more. The directory is called Blue Vertigo (you'll understand why when you see it) and can be found here.

A great font resource

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:09:00 -0600

When doing desing work I often find myself wanting a suitable font for the given situation. Looking for fonts on the net is often time consuming and frustrating. Today I accidentaly came upon this site. Here is a bunch of font categories to choose from. However, what really caught my attention was the "All Fonts" link. A page displaying all the fonts in all the categories, so that you can quickly scroll through and stop by the ones that catches your eye, without any cumbersome back and fort clicking. It takes some seconds to load as there is a good selection of fonts, but the selection seems useful and versatile. As far as I can see all the fonts are free to grab and use as you like. Do you know of a easy to browse font resource, let me know.

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IE7 spells trouble

Comprehensive directory of design resources

A great font resource