Your Curiosity Is Desired

[janestarz]

I need some people with various browsers to help test the new Dolle Griet website.

Yesterday Ragar came over with the graphical interface. The css file that went with it was forbidden (no permissions whatsoever) and the person who coded the whole thing is on holiday.
This does not seem to affect the performance of the site.

Also, the html I found in the pre-generated pages is messy at best. Lots of spans and /spans and other html I half-understand. Besides this, I've seen the site in Konqueror, Firefox, and IE and none of the views are satisfactory. The flash animation at the top of the page (not unlike the Castlefest website) refuses to work, which is all Konqueror's fault. Firefox had a border around the link at the top of the page, which might be attributed to the missing css file. I manually fixed that yesterday.

Internet explorer so far yielded the worst results. Borders around the frames, the links of the navigation not opening in the right frame, and no way to have a sneak peek at the source code since it's all interpreted as an image.

I wasn't very busy at work this morning so I attempted to make a start at building and revamping the html, but I don't see this happening very soon. Especially since I'm supposed to be reading up on a big project for work.

It's been a while since I worked with frames --basically, once they're in place you stop bothering about them as long as you get your "target" attribute right-- and I'm unsure what the idea of the builder was when he worked on this.

All this can be fixed in a couple of nights, I'm sure. I just need some time to sit down and busk it. And then I will need screenshots from people who are willing to take a few minutes to look at it in different browsers.
So, if you've got Mozilla, Opera, Safari or other browsers, please drop me a line (tell me about your browser!) and I'll draft you.

On a side note: squee! New icons!

Comments

[sna.livejournal.com]

I use the latest Firefox under WinXP. Drop me a line if you need it; since NoKey and you were instrumental in tweaking our site for the Linux browsers its the least I can do.

Edit: love the new icon.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

You should see some of the others. Ben Kenobi, Gandalf, and of course Atlantis.

I'll write you down for Firefox under XP. Any other browsers you are willing to volunteer?

[sna.livejournal.com]

I have always used Firefox, I only have an old Netscape Navigator and the ubiquitos IE on my computer.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Netscape...now where have I heard that name before?

[sna.livejournal.com]

The gray and dark past of early internet? ;-)

Netscape Navigator used to be quite the competition for ol' Explorer...

[webshark.livejournal.com]

Jeez, what about mosaic?

[anemoona.livejournal.com]

Safari and Camino, *PING*

I know nothing of html and building websites, but maybe I can do some functional tests for you.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I was kind of hoping you'd ping in for this. You're the only one I know of running a Mac at home. I'll send you an e-mail once I've dived into the code and got something to show for it.

[webshark.livejournal.com]

or you can try this:
http://browsershots.org/

you'll have to go page by page though, it doesn't check the whole site at once I believe

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

It works pretty well, though it refuses to work from my workplace. So does the new DG site, by the way, so it's probably the fact that IE here is faulty - though that's a contradiction in terms.

I've noticed that some links don't work the way they should around the office either, and that's something the browsershot can't test for me.

So, you volunteering?

By the by, the first chapter of Crooked Little Vein was pretty good.

[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

We're running Firefox 1.5.0.12 under Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). Happy to help if needed.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I'll contact you when I'm ready :-)