Category: Know the Code

Working on putting some code in to place that Ste wrote for me tonight and I’m watching the Mission: Comments post just hang at 86 comments. Oh… so close. 47 minutes to make it to 100 by midnight. Come on, you can do it…

Before you leave a comment, (blahblahblah … I edited this post because everything is resolving for everyone now… ) Just minor latency issues, nothing major.

I’ve figured out what is causing the wonkiness at the top of the blog pages, but it’s a script that I need Jenn’s help with. So, the ugliness continues…

It seems that right now you can’t comment. The site seems to think that it should be sending you on to my old IP when you try. Ugh. Looking for a fix, but don’t see where the glitch is… if you need me, send me e-mail to me at this domain.com. I’ll just be sitting here at the keyboard, ripping my hair out. Makes it easier on the stylist when I go there later today!

UPDATE: All clear! You can comment again – I just had to tweak a file in the subscribe to comments code that was pointing at my old IP address. Once I found it, it was a fast fix!

It seems that my site has moved, but somewhere I have something using the old IP address instead of a URL, and now there are freaky errors at the top of my site. Oops. And guess what? I’m working through lunch so I can go have my hair cut and colored later today … so I’m not going to be able to fix it until tonight! Ack! Sorry about the ugliness. Please don’t hold it against me…

I have been using the web browser on my phone again lately, and I am reminded again how important it is to present your main content first.

My default design for my blog is now all CSS – table free. I can leave the content where it is, but with a simple change of a tag that tells the sidebar where to display, I can change it from displaying on the right to displaying on the left. Zoom, zoom. Fast.

This matters. Maybe it doesn’t to those of you viewing this through a computer monitor, but if you were blind and had to deal with a device that reads websites to you, would you want to hear all the sidebar links first? No. And if you were waiting for a page to load on a cell phone or other mobile device, you don’t want to wait then either. My blog displays the content first, the sidebar last. If you use tables and have your sidebar on the right, that’s ok too. (Not great, but ok.) However, if you have a sidebar or two on the left, I have to wait for all of that to load before I can read your site – unless you use CSS and have the content of the sidebar at the end of your HTML code.

I understand that you probably don’t think you need to worry about accessibility – but you do. You never know who might be trying to read your site, so serve it up right.