More lessons in web design.

Well ... Wednesday night my DaughterV IM'd me and announced that she also couldn't see my Thursday Thirteen banner (from last week).

We muddled through it a bit and compared notes and made sure we were both on the same page and finally I also saw the disappearing act that the banner was pulling. DaughterV said, "Yeah, you're just going to have to report it missing from coast to coast ... well, no, really it's more like that Bermuda Triangle thing -- Oregon, New York, Texas ... "

Welllll it turns out that I messed up my HTML code and I could see my Thursday Thirteen banner with Firefox and the Mac browser, uh Safari(?), could also see it. Microsoft's Internet Explorer ... Yeah ... No so fortunate.

So, again, I'm forced to look at something that has caused me issues before. I do not have a blogging system ... I don't have it down to where I can put it in a flowchart and follow it. I have a few portions of it charted out but then I get sloppy and start thinking I don't have to follow it because ... uh ... I'm good? Okay. We won't go there.

One of the most basic rules of web design is: Always check your work in multiple browsers. I've routinely done this when I'm changing the design lay out but ... what I failed to remember is that every post is a design element that deserves to at least a glance in that IE thing.

So I'm working again on my flowcharts and trust me ... "Check IE" is on the board.

And for my mother ... I am sorry I ever doubted that the photo of me on the car wasn't there ... but I know how advertising resistant I am from growing up with ya'll ... so much so that I honestly thought that you just glanced right over it like I do with advertising that shows up in the middle of the blog. Trust me ... I'm not complaining about being advertising resistant. It saves me a lot of eye strain, time and, of course, money.

For everyone else who uses Internet Explorer ... hey, get Firefox ... LOL ... no no really, I'm sorry and I promise to double ck my posts from now on. Oh and I fixed the Still Me after all this Time post. Now everyone can see how adorable I was sitting on the trunk of the car.