About a month ago, we reached one of those crossroads in the development of our (coming very soon) content management solution. Our development process is typically to develop a perfect standards-compliant site and then reverse-engineer a working Internet Explorer copy out of that–usually through painstaking pixel-by-pixel corrections of obscure bugs in IE-specific stylesheets, but also in rare cases where we had to make compromises with the design or markup of the page.
But IE stylesheets can only get you so far. When working with a public-facing website design you just need to get it right once: we make sure the structure is flexible and adaptable and forward-looking, but mainly we build to the best standards of the current day. But because development of our backend solution will be continuous (that’s a hint about a major feature, by the way), continuing to tie ourselves to IE6’s sundry limitations would be crippling down the road. Read more »
Tags: 37signals, ie6, internet explorer, livewhale, lwblog, whitewhale
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For those of you who have never heard of SEED, it is a conference collaboratively constructed (+2 points for alliteration) by our heroes at 37signals, Coudal Partners, and Segura Inc. The presentations were mostly geared towards taking what you love to do (mostly what you would be doing in your spare time whether you were being paid or not), and figuring out how to be greatly successful at doing it for a living. The conference was extremely thought provoking, interesting and entertaining—particularly Gary Vaynerchuk’s presentation, which had all of us struggling to keep a straight face. It was like watching our future selves communicate to our past selves about how successful our dreams will have become, and how much damn fun we had along the way. I’m posting my conference notes below for those that were unable to attend, and the rest of my fellow Whales are more than welcomed to append any additional notes that they may have. If anything, I’d advise browsing through the Quotes sections of each presentation, as there is a wealth of amazing truth therein. Read more »
Tags: 37signals, Conferences, ideologies, philosophy, productivity, SEED, thunder
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