Michael's Random Thoughts

warning for IE 6

Internet Explorer 6 is the worst, yuck, for the post i will refer to IE 6 as The Yucky. As a web devoloper you have to make sure your websites and web apps run nicely in all of the web browsers out there. It always seems like The Yucky gives me the most problems, nothing every looks exactly the way i designed it and not to mention that it runs slower than every other browser and that it does have tabs and there are security issues and there is just no reason to be running The Yucky at all.  I ran into an artical expressed my same feelings and had a neat little word press plugin to help with getting people off of The Yucky and into a newer browser that enhance there internet experence.  This plug pops up a warning “You are using Internet Explorer version 6.0 or lower. Due to security issues and lack of support for Web Standards it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a modern browser.” and give the user a link to download several other browsers.

The plug in is called Shockingly Big IE6 Warning, which is named appropaly.  Like every other word press plugin it was easy to install and easy to set up.

You can choose from 3 types of warning:

• TOP, a discreet top bar
• FULL, a fullscreen warning
• CRASH, the mean option

I choose the full warning type because i want people to be informed and go to my site but i was tempted to just crash The Yucky everytime someone came to my site. So hopefully people start to get off of The Yucky and start using a browser that will cruse you around the internets faster.

I forgot to add that the free iPhone app is clutch for wordpress. Even tough I don’t write many articals on it, I do place most of my ideas in the local draft and then uploaded the draft when I have time blog. But with 3.0 os for the iPhone with the sideways keyboard I might be writing more blogs like this one from it. Sidenote: iPhonesAreDaBomb.com

Most of you may now that i am a computer programmer and i develop web applications as a job. i have always wanted to write my own blogging application like word press but way cooler. I just don’t have the time when web apps like wordpress already existes. One of my goals is to get this blog on my own written bloging web app. I just wanted to get his blog up and rolling and i didn’t want to wait for me to write my own before i started blogging.  So i just installed word press and started blogging.

Here are some of my thoughts on word press so far. godaddy made it easy to install word press. There were alot of diffrent themes that were easy to install. It was straight forward to edit the theme i don’t know how hard it will be to create your own, also something i would like to try.   The blog were simple to draft and anyone could write a blog that looks good with the html view. i still want to try out some javascirpt or maybe even PHP if it will allow it.  The last thing that word press had build in search engiene friendly urls that were fully customizable which will be great if google ever spiders my site.

Myth: word press is the greatest thing every.

Fact: Word press is one of the best blogging application out there.