Now that I’ve got this site launched, maybe I should take a closer look at it. I’m told in the comments that layout is broken in IE6. I have dealt with an IE bug like this before and ended up creating an alternate css file just for IE and just for one div. I may end up doing that here too. I was going to try the display:inline trick, but the css already uses that and it doesn’t seem to be working. I tried a couple of other tricks but was denied. Maybe if I wasn’t at the airport about to hop a flight, I’d have more time to dig into the details, but I guess it’ll have to stay broken a bit longer. Sorry IE6 users! If you are reading this and thinking to yourself, that Vanessa is so lame and that fix is so easy, please drop a note in the comments and I’ll check it out when I land. The “fix is so easy” comment that is.
Other broken things:
- The comments feed didn’t seem to be working in my feed reader. It’s fixed now (er, I was subscribed to the wrong thing I think), but now I’m thinking about that Search Engine Land article about owning your feed URL again and maybe I should do the MyBrand thing. Because even with the WordPress plugin, I’m using a Feedburner domain for the feed, which doesn’t seem ideal. Alas, that too will have to wait until I land.
- The link to the theme in the footer was broken. (And if the owner of that site logs into webmaster tools, they’ll be wondering where the heck that broken link is coming from!) That was an easy fix at least.
- The feed URLs in my header don’t match the links in the sidebar (the header URLs are the original; the sidebar URLs from feedburner). This means that if you pop my domain into a feed reader, it finds two versions of each feed. Again, not ideal. Will fix that when I do the MyBrand thing. Er, maybe tomorrow.
- I’ve got all these meta tags:
<meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="robots" content="follow, all" /> <meta name="language" content="en, sv" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="robots" content="follow, all" /> <meta name="language" content="en, sv" />
Hmm. For one thing, everything is there twice. For another thing, I’m not thinking I need most of these tags even once. I’m also not sure why my content is specified as Swedish. I definitely don’t need to tell the robots to follow all. They’re pretty good at doing that on their own. Anyway, I just need to track down how these are being generated and fix ’em up.
- This isn’t broken, but I’m thinking of moving by blogroll from the sidebar to a tab, so you don’t have to see it on every page. Especially as it might get longer over time. I do read a lot, after all.
- Someone asked for pictures. That’s what the Flickr feed at the end is for! No, not those kinds of pictures.
- Someone in the comments was questioning the seagull. Don’t be hating on the seagull! That’s not really a broken thing to fix. I just wanted to represent for the poor little guy.
In my hasty testing, what have I missed?