As a youngster, I’ve always had an interest in history, obtaining an A grade in my Irish Intermediate Certificate (now called the Junior Certificate and roughly equivalent to British GCSEs), my study for the exam being to sit down and read both my Irish history books from start to finish, and was bitterly disappointed that I was unable to study the subject for my Leaving Certificate (again roughly equivalent to Britain’s A-Levels) due to subject choices (I wanted to study Physics as an aid to doing a degree in computers and the choice was one of Physics, History or Business Organisation).
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At work the other day I was running into an issue regarding rounded corners with shadows. I had the divs and background images all working fine, it all looked good.
Except in Internet Explorer 6.
Now I know that there are many people out there who believe that IE6, as it’s affectionately known, is the spawn of the devil and should be flung to the depth of hell, never to be seen again. Heck there’s even a campaign afoot to get rid of it. And perhaps they have a point. But IE6 is still used by some people, and therefore must be supported.
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A warm and hearty Irish welcome or fáilte to you all to my new website and blog! As you can see there have been many changes on the website itself, which is now just a glorified business card, and I am now using WordPress to manage my blog. My previous site design has had its time, and since I mainly used it to learn PHP, it had become a bit bloated and outdated. the previous blog entries and whiteboard comments have not been lost, but they are no longer being shown on this blog. I’m starting afresh.
The WordPress theme that I have currently chosen is Scrapbook with a few minor tweaks here and there. I may stick with this, I may change it. We’ll see.
This blog will contain information on web design and development, life and my love of history. Some may overlap, I may write about some topics more, others less and different ones all together, only time will tell.
Naturally I invite you to read and comment, and please do sign up to do so!
That’s all for now,
Ian
