I’ve taken a few days to re-build pagetoscreen.net and get rid of tables where possible. This page validates to XHTML Transitional OK, but I still have some old blog entries which are without their alt tags for the images. pMachine provides no easy way to go back and correct this. I have been through and edited some but I guess the best way would be to to some global search and replace in the mySQL database.
When the Pantone colour system was invented in 1962 and developed into the business it is today by Lawrence Herbert, the word ‘web’ was associated with ‘web offset’ printing; printing on a continuous roll of paper. The word ‘web’ now is more readily related to the Internet and there is a relationship between web design and Pantone.
I’m sure you’ll agree - test your web site in as many browsers as you can. How far back you go is another question; Netscape 4 is a particularly tricky browser to support.
But how do you keep a range of browsers to hand so that you can open up your pesky URL and see what others might see? Do you need to maintain a museum of browsers on different platforms? I have a couple of treasured museum pieces (a MAC Classic and a PC486) but I rarely fire them up!
If you have been checking out the articles over the last few days, you may have noticed a few odd renderings! I’m doing my utmost to deliver the actual articles without tables.
Yes. Watch this space for further updates and ‘how to do’s’ on using stylesheets to deliver this look. Click over some of the article headings to see what this looks like from where you are sitting.
Maybe, like me you are forever tweaking your stylesheets (css) to get your pages to look right in all flavours of web browsers. The problem is that when you make a change and then upload your new stylesheet to your server, it can take ages for the various caches to clear before you see your changes. What can you do? I think I have found the solution!
