I spent most of the weekend working on a new site design. I ended up scrapping it and photoshopping another one today but I got a chance to play around with some more advanced CSS.

Unfortunately, in doing that, I found out how horrible a browser Internet Explorer is (article is old but still valid). Most of the stuff I was doing was just CSS 1, not anything too advanced, but while Firefox would render it beautifully, Explorer would absolutely butcher it. There may have been a more universal way to write the CSS I was trying, but Firefox had no problem with it.

Really, Firefox is just a really, really good browser. I’m a creature of habit (I’m writing this in IE), but even I have started to do most of my web browsing in Firefox in protest of the fact that IE, with something like 90% of the browser market share, isn’t standards compliant. It’s ridiculous.

I’m hoping to have the new website up this week. I think it looks a little bit cleaner and more professional which should be a good thing. It’s still pretty graphics intensive so I’m also planning on putting together a digitalbackcountry-lite version with no pictures.

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