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5 November 2006 4 views 2 Comments

IE7 does not like my blog. This blog, specifically. It likes all the other WordPress sites of mine, but not this particular blog. Hmmm? I’m guessing it is a plugin conflict, but do not know. I have so many running, I really don’t want to go through the process of deactivating them one at a time to see if that’s the case.

…this theme does load a bit faster, which is good … but, I don’t know if I’ll stick with this one…

As you can see, I have changed the layout. I did it for my own site to test one I’m creating for another project.

What do you think? I like the widget goodness of the newest WordPress themes. That is invisible to you, I know, but the AJAXY widgets make defining layout simple – without any HTML or PHP, if you wish. The opensource WordPress community has made the platform even easier to use and adapt. Their efforts are deeply appreciated.

This theme is Tarski. I like it very much. Great work from Ben Eastaugh and Chris Johnson. The flexibility is quite remarkable.

The theme I really want to implement is Canvas – by Karsten Temme and Yasser Dahab. It worked in WordPress 2.0.4, but the recent upgrade to 2.0.5 makes the Canvas plugin fail, for me. They state, on their site, that they will be rewriting the theme. I’m hopeful.

Have any of you had good fortune with IE 7, or any of these widget-friendly WordPress themes?

Update: Do not, whatever you do, put an ampersand in one of your tags. I had Style & Design in there and it crashed my feed.

2 Comments »

  • everysandwich UNITED STATES Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 said:

    I like this theme a lot, though I had to do a lot of scrolling to find the comment field. And I know what you mean about the ampersand. Code Kryptonite, apparently.

    # 8 November 2006 at 2:22 pm
  • Robert UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8 (author) said:

    Thanks. I agree, the top section sidebar has too much in it. That results in the need to scroll looking for the comment form. I’ll be clearing some of that clutter out of there.

    :) Yep, that ampersand certainly is kryptonite. The goofy thing is, I knew that, yet put it in there anyway. Then spent all that time searching to discover why the feed dropped off. It was one of those – doh! – experiences that reminds you – no matter what I think I know, I know nothing. :)

    # 8 November 2006 at 2:47 pm