The most annoying part about being a web developer is having to cater to the needs of outdated browsers and their awful quirks – I am looking at you IE ( specifically IE6 ).  The whole situation becomes woeful when you install IE7 and it wipes IE6 out, and then if you install IE8 it wipes out IE7.

Fortunately there are people who realized this was a problem, and have made easy solutions for us poor web developers.

My method is as follows:

IE7 and IE8 can be found here : http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

I installed those first, I don’t think order of install will effect everything – I just figured if I got those two in first, they wouldn’t overwrite IE6. Sweet logic.

IE6 can be found here : http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

There is nothing complex about those installs – they are very straight forward and shouldn’t cause any problems. Lucky for us we can now all blissfully test layouts and javascript in the incredible well built browser called IE . . . *sigh*.

When I catch a few extra minutes at work ( Web Developer at Neutron Interactive ) I have been designing and playing with the Neutron Interactive Web Site. I don’t like the old site at all – it does not capture the vibe you get when you are at Neutron. So in this new design I really wanted to get the feel of the office and the people that work there.

I drew out the general idea I wanted – took only one sketch to get there, but I had been thinking about the site for while.

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Threw it into photoshop, and kinda worked a little bit of stuff in there. The background if my favorite, it has some brick, the neutron logo, cracked cement and the bulk of it is a mushroom cloud. After a lot of tweaking, I finally came out with something I liked, except for the right column – which I still am not sure what I will use it for. But here is the gist of it . . .

The new site is currently running on a development server – but I recorded 30 minutes of coding out the CSS and HTML for it – for any of you that can make it past 1 minute of it without ripping your eyes out.

The site will launch soon . . . but for now – enjoy.