Recently I have Chris has moved this website away from my old free hosting over to his own paid for hosting because he was keen for it to look more professional (i.e. lose the big advertising banner across the top of the page) and for my RSS feed to work (which for some reason didn’t with the free hosting). The nice little plugin that had the thumbnails pop up in their own window had stopped working and it seems it may have something to do with the dodgy bodged-together theme I have been using.
Chris (my personal blog fairy) has been experimenting with new themes, hence the new look. It is by no means a permanent thing as it still looks bodgy and needs a lot of work doing to it, but the picture viewer now seems to be working.
Please bear with it for a while until I find the time and acquire the expertise to find and customise a theme I feel happy with. It may be that I swap to a simple and plain one for a time, just so that I know everything will work and it will all sit properly on the page without any dodgy misalignments etc etc.
In the mean time, a big thank you to Chris for all his hard work in the wee small hours, especially as he now has the added responsibility of helping Irina look after their five month old baby, Anna, now
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Ooh, it looks different again this morning – the alignment is better and the heading background is shorter so doesn’t clash with the RSS feed. It appears my blog fairy has been tinkering again. Thank you
And the gravatar (little picture icon next to my name) plugin is working – super cool!
Eeewww! I’ve just noticed that the heading is seriously not right in IE7. I’ve upgraded to IE8 at home which displays the heading ok though excludes the dark green box round each post for some reason. This must be the first time I’ve checked it at work (which is still on IE7). Oh dear, it seems it will never be quite as I’d like it in every browser.
If it softens the blow at all, only 1 in 4 people browsing this site in this month use IE7. Double check the theme settings page (your current theme has its own special page, separate to the default pages in WordPress) to make sure there aren’t any IE7 fixes that need to be ticked or anything.
Full browser stats for August, so far. (Don’t forget these include your own visits as well).
Msie 8.0 No 5899 12.7 %
Msie 5.00 No 1 0 %
Msie 7.0 No 12382 26.8 %
Msie 6.0 No 5805 12.5 %
Msie 5.17 No 1 0 %
Msie 5.5 No 41 0 %
Msie 5.0 No 25 0 %
Msie 3.02 No 1 0 %
Msie 2.0 No 3 0 %
Msie ? No 1 0 %
Msie 4.01 No 1 0 %
FIREFOX 14912 32.3 %
NETSCAPE 296 0.6 %
Others 6782 14.6 %