Google Chrome

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: April 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks i have started to use Google Chrome as my main internet browser, i decided to start using it more because it is really fast to open. Although i really like Firefox i will be using Chrome for the next while for the bulk of my browsing. 

I will however still be using Firefox because i use it a lot when editing websites because of all the great plugins that i have that make problem solving with websites a breeze. I will never go back and use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and have not used it in about 2 years now. 

I found that when watching some of the high definition videos in firefox it made the video jump when you try to play it when the video is still finishing off downloading. In chrome however i found that it plays seamlessly, i would assume this has to do with the fact that because Firefox uses so much memory compared to other applications, when you try to run a HD video it just becomes a little too much and since Chrome uses less memory it dosent find it as such a struggle to play the HD videos.

There are a few other reasons i switched to chrome, i like how much screen space i now have with this browser, i can see a lot more of the page which is great :D

There is one other time when i use all of my internet browsers, (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), i use them when i want to check to make sure that my website is displaying right in all the different browsers, because chances are when you are designing and using the one browser to check if it is looking ok, by time you come to finally check it when you are finished you will most likely find something that has broken in one of the different browsers because the code differs slightly from browser to browser.

My new site layout

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Well as you can see i have recently changed the complete appearance of this website. I think that it was about time because everything kind of looked all over the place. This new theme (Wicketpixie) i have was created by Chris Pirillo and can be found here. This theme has everything in it, it allows all of my different accounts that i am signed up into to be all displayed on the one page, My Site!

When you get this theme it has all of Chris's content in it such as live video's and his Flickr and youtube account. It is a very easy process to change all this to your own content 

I have just recently signed up to Flickr and you can see all my pictures here.

There is one problem that everyone was having with this theme when it came out and that was that it would not display properly on Internet Explorer 7, like come on it works perfectly on every other browser such as firefox and safari. Considering that this theme is FREE to everyone, what you get is unbelievable. This theme could just have easily been made for purchase only!

Back to the problem with IE7 the reason it is not displaying properly is because this theme is still in development. This theme has been released early so that people can get the feel of it and if they like it they can donate for the further development of it.

I have made some CSS up to help fix the problem of the appearance of this blog in IE7, this CSS will align the navigation and search bar at top back to where they should be, the code is as follows:

#nav {

 

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

top:224px;

 

}

 

#topbar {

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

}

 

#mid {

padding: 30px 0 0 0;

 

}

 

 

You can just paste the above CSS code into the IE7.css file in the CSS folder of wicketpixe or download this file and replace it with the original.