CSS Design

Web standards are maturing with each day passing. Design approaches and practices that were commonly used eighteen months ago are obsolete now. If you do not use a content management system (CMS), your site designer or developer probably uses an XHTML structure with information presented using one or more cascading style sheets (CSS).

Religious Web Sites

I am honored to create and maintain Web sites for church congregations and parishes. I build these sites to the congregation’s specifications to help them tend to their members and promote their message to the world.

Commercial Web Sites

I create commercial Web sites that:

Comply with Web standards
Are accessible to persons with disabilities
Effectively present the client and its operations to potential customers

Non-Profit Web Sites

I work hard for our non-profit customers to present their organizations clearly and effectively. These Web sites comply with Web standards, are accessible to visitors regardless of physical condition or disability, effectively promote the organization’s work, and build community support, sponsorship, development.

Alumni Web Sites

Our society has always been mobile; friends and family spread out across the continent and overseas over the years. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, permit greater continuity or reestablishment of friendships among alumni. A Web site dedicated to a particular class, however, allows members greater opportunities to reconnect by focusing on that class.

Personal Web Sites

Blogging allows you to publish your thoughts or experiences to the public. Many use personal blogs to help keep their extended family informed or to promote their professional or political perspectives.

CSS Design
Religious Sites
Commercial Sites
Non-Profit Sites
Alumni Sites
Blog Sites

February 10, 2012

Text Size

What’s the Problem with Internet Explorer?

Okay, this is pretty technical. The designers of Internet Explorer® include restrictions on the placement of certain types of code, such as JavaScript, or the introduction of security access files (htaccess) outside of the <header> tag in the HTML markup for a site. That’s okay with sites that are hand-coded.

Another reason, or excuse, for this conduct is that a component plugin starts to parse the code before the Web page is fully loaded, causing a null exception in the DOM (Document Object Model).

Many managed content sites, including ours, depend upon, and use, modular components or plugins. These code elements often have their own style sheets, JavaScript, and access controls. Since these occur outside of the </header> tag—because they are not “called” until the link to the element is clicked—Internet Explorer either returns a message saying that it cannot open the site or just leaves the area blank. (Look at the URL given for the “site;” it will be the Web address for the component you tried to open.)

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