It’s hard to believe I managed to roll out, much less design, seven designs over the past six years, and that’s not counting the few years prior to 2003 that this site was home to a gaming organization. I took a different approach when transferring the design from a Photoshop mockup to HTML: I almost completely ignored Internet Explorer. When I did finally test in IE 7 and 8, there were very little changes I needed to make to the CSS. I really wasn’t surprised, as long ago I decided that today’s IE does a pretty good job at displaying standards compliant Web pages (as opposed to the IE of yesteryear). Is it perfect? Far from it, but a perfect browser doesn’t exist.

That being said, there are still a few bugs I need to work out for IE. I created the PNG files used in the backgrounds in two different versions of Photoshop, and the files made in the older version have gamma info. This is easy to fix, and once it’s done, it’ll look identical in all major browsers. This also marks the first time I haven’t cared about IE 6. A few of the PNG files have transparency, and I didn’t use any DirectX filters (nor do I plan to). So if you’re a IE 6 user, I’m sorry =)

On a different note, I’m putting the final touches on a .NET print preview control that responds to the mousewheel (why Microsoft didn’t add that functionality by default baffles me). The code’s sat for months in a mostly finished state, but it’s time I get it done and make it available. There’s some download logic I need to add to the site before it’s available, but I should have all that done by the end of this week.