Technically Feasible

New site design live

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Michael Oldroyd
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I'm happy to say that after buying my domain nearly four years ago, the site is now live. It's the first design that I am generally pleased with. Planned updates include adding support for mobile browsers, and the right sidebar needs some work, and comments lists have been left slightly neglected. There will be some QA tests of available mobile plug-ins at some stage, though I hope to avoid the "Instant iOS" styling that the popular ones provide.

The design is under technical review, so if anybody notices any rendering issues feedback would be appreciated. The theme is built from the ground up, loosely based upon the skeleton theme Bianco. There's some CSS3 sprinkled around; differences in older browsers are intentionally not addressed. Rendering bugs in IE6 won't be fixed, lets not go back to the mosaic browser either :).

Here's the list of versions for mainstream desktop browsers that we should look OK in:

  • Internet Explorer 8+
  • Firefox 3.5.x+
  • Google Chrome / Chromium 8.0+
  • Safari 4+
  • Opera 10+

The CSS that may be unsupported in these browsers depending on version:

  • Text Shadow
  • Box Shadow
  • Border Radius
  • Multiple Backgrounds
  • 2D Transforms
  • Web Fonts
  • CSS Gradients

I won't be adding any shivs or poly-fills to the design, other than to add support for forward-looking technologies like HTML5 elements in up-to-date browsers only.

It's also worth noting that the Last.FM plug-in was non-functional in WordPress 3.1 (the admin area was broken). I converted the code to a class-based widget. After doing some cleaning up, I may provide the code for others to use.

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Michael Oldroyd

Michael is a Software Engineer working in the North West of England.