The search box should be working now on the default white skin with the photos on the top, the gray skin with the photos on the top, and the gray skin with the giant big pink cookie taking over the world. The result template needs tweaking still, and the other skins will be fixed later this weekend. For now, Jason & I are off to enjoy the great outdoors!
Upgraded to MT 2.63 – making sure everything is working ok!
Dawn and others have reported to me recently that they have had problems leaving comments on my site while using Safari. Well, bigger than problems – it crashes the browser. I wrote Jay about it this weekend, since I know he was a victim of my crashes and asked him to poke around and see if he could find the bug. It seems it was in the processing.php page (which I need for the restricted access posts) and I begged Jennifer for her help fixing it. She knew the issue was in that file, and now she has found the specific code that was causing the error and she has fixed for it! Yeah! The ScriptyGoddess rocks!
I am curious though – why is there a browser out there that just completely crashes on a line of code? Shouldn’t it just throw an error message and move on? That would bug me if my browser just fell over on me like that!
I finally wrote the “What is XML? And What is RSS? Why Do I Want It Anyways?” post over at ScriptyGoddess. Please leave me a comment here if you update your feed so that I can update my news reader!
Now I’m off to add new photos to Pixelog.
I dreamt last night that Mike changed his blog design from the familiar yellow with the sidebar on the right to something much more stark, white, gray, with a sidebar on the left. The first thing I thought was that I needed to tell him not to put the sidebar on the left. Is it a sign? Is it something else I need to push now that my RSS Feed mission is going so well? Maybe.
See, when you put your sidebar on the left, you hurt those of us that might read your site on small handheld devices – PDAs, Pocket PCs, cell phones. I’m sure that some people can work CSS magic that makes the device use a design that works for it, but really – how many of you have standard compliant sites? I know I don’t. However, you can retrieve my site on a PDA because the main content loads first and if the page is too large it cuts off before the sidebar. On sites that have huge sidebars and have them on the right, sometimes it cuts off somewhere in the sidebar itself. Just something to think about as you design your site – not everyone is reading it on a full monitor.
I’ll refrain from starting on my hate of things like Zonkboards and tag boards and how they lag the load time of sites in general for now. But you’ve been warned…