February, 2008 Archives

I now get to blame something other than my genes for my loss of hair, and that something is Internet Explorer 7. Why would a browser that was supposed to be an upgrade to the flawed IE6 work? Why would a Microsoft product be compliant to web standards?

If you have viewed my portfolio page in IE7, you will notice that all of the layout is horrible. There are horizontal rules running through text, terrible spacing, and layout that looks like a grid is it’s worst nightmare. However, looking at the same page in any other browser (including IE6), the layout is fine. I have been stressing over the layout in IE7 for a while now, and I am at the point of wanting to tear my hair out.

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One of the reasons I am balding…

Thanks to one of the best Firefox add-ons (StumbleUpon), I recently came across a blog that drafted some interesting design rules.
http://hi-and-low.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/a-new-year.html
These were rules from the “Immaculate Heart College Art Department”

  1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
  2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
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Design Rules