You make a site – write up the XHTML, add a basic CSS layout, and test. Firefox OK, Konqueror OK, Opera OK, Epiphany OK, lynx (non-CSS) OK. Then you make the mistake of testing it on IE6 – definitely not OK. :-(

I won’t rant or rage. I’ll just point out I spent as much time fiddling with the devsite‘s CSS file to make it work under IE than I did writing the thing in its original working valid form. (Well, almost valid. Small border issue with Firefox). It’s irritating to say the least. I don’t like too much web design to start with, once I get past the basic layout I founder on the ultimate challenge. Picking matching colours! ;-)

Anyway for what it’s worth to the millions of IE6 users out there I’ve fixed most of the original IE problems. Thanks to matthijs on the DevNetwork forums lt;gt;for his suggestions on CSS fixes for IE, and pointer to the small tweak of adding a br / tag within all DIVs with a top-border containing left/right floats. Avoided a lot of hair pulling with that…

Now to proof read and maybe extend. A few tweaks, a news posting function, and the site can be dropped onto the base directory.

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