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Welcome to yorkrules tech talk, or - as I like to call it in my very search-unfriendly way - tictactectoc. This is not where we’ll be discussing whether it’s better to use transitional or strict XHTML, or what’s the most popular CSS image replacement technique (even I don’t know what I’m talking about, so you’re not alone.)
Tictactectoc is where I will take the knowledge I have gained over the last several years of teaching myself web design and translate it into information that you can use to improve your online experience.
Step one: get a better browser. There are a lot of web browsers out there - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Navigator, Safari, Opera, and many more. You’re most likely reading this post using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, currently the most widely-used browser of them all, and the worst. How bad is it? Well, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was released over 5 years ago, which in online time is equivalent to about half a century. It was already a poor excuse for a browser then, but it’s only gotten worse as web standards have steadily advanced over the past half-decade. The recent release of IE7 is a dramatic improvement over its predecessor - yet it, too, sucks.
If you’re looking at yorkrules using IE, you’re not actually experiencing all the bells & whistles that have been included in the new design, because IE just doesn’t support them. If you want to know more about its shortcomings, you can read Criticism of Internet Explorer on Wikipedia (I haven’t, because it’s much too boring, but the fact that there’s a page on Wikipedia dedicated to the subject says all that needs to be said.)
The solution? Mozilla’s free, open-source, fully-customizable Firefox web browser. It’s the de facto browser for the digerati set, but its intuitive interface, elegant simplicity, and powerful expandability will likely make it the most popular web browser for everyone soon.
Do yourself a favour - do me and all other online artists a favour: download Firefox with a click, install it with a click, and meet me back here soon to talk about how add-ons can dramatically improve your online experience.
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Case in point: this post. IE incorrectly displays the text in relation to the image of the firefox biting the IE logo (perhaps it’s intentional on Microsoft’s part?)
To see this site as God and I intended it, use Firefox.
York My Love was kind enough to install Firefox for me and it is fantastic. I highly recommend it, especially coming from someone who normally doesn’t care about that stuff.
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