New Site
The new site is live. There’s a new theme, a new homepage, a bit of new content, and lots of new links. Even this blog you’re reading is all new.
I’ve tried to make the content a bit more succinct and keep the design of the site a bit more consistent. And I’ve redone the whole theme using HTML5, Javascript, and a lot of CSS3.
CSS3 is amazing!
The CSS3 theme is pretty fancy, but the entire site has only a handful of images. Most of which are the product logos and screenshots.
The gradients, shadows, colors, and text is all styled using CSS. This means things look slightly different depending on your browser. The site definitely looks best in newish WebKit based browsers like Safari, Chrome, and iOS. It looks roughly the same in recent versions of FireFox, too. It will look a bit blander on older versions, of course.
I get very little traffic from Internet Explorer. It’s no surprise, really. For those forced to use IE my site will work well in IE8, albeit a bit more plainly. In IE7 it’s plainer still, yet remains quite functional.
Stragglers
But YourHead no longer works in IE6. It looks quite bad, actually. I no longer employ the “PNG Fix” to correct for opacity and there are some box model problems I didn’t bother to correct. The good news is that only about 5% of my visitors use IE. And only about 10% of those use IE6 anymore.
I promised I’d drop IE6 the day it no longer represented 1% of the visitors; that day is today. Stragglers: it’s time to upgrade. IT managers: you’re standing in the way of prgress. Step aside. We’re coming through whether you like it or not.
And the Plugins?
No, I’m not dropping IE6 support for my plugins. Not everyone is selling Mac software. So most folks still have considerably more than 1% of their visitors from IE6. I’ll still work hard to make sure things continue to render well until that day comes.
