This week I finished our latest redesign. I made a cleaner design with some new features, such as the top bar that is visible everywhere (wiki, blog, forum). Also the right column has links to Beta version and Last News (many people didn’t know before that we had a beta version…). I hope you liked the new design.

The most exciting thing for me wasn’t the site itself, but how IEs4Linux helped me doing it. There was a long time since I made a full design thinking about IE compatibility etc. When I started this new design I decided to make IE versions as close as possible to the “original” version. And usinf IEs4Linux it’s a lot easier to make web design using Linux.

Using conditional comments I fixed almost all IE bugs (like simulating :after and :before with JavaScritpt). I noted also that IE7 has less bugs and PNG transparency works fine (actually most problem with IE<=6 was PNGs, that I replaced with GIFs, JPGs). So, I was happy to see how easy is to develop a Site using this project I created

And I noted that Linux is the most exciting web development platform. What I used: Inkscape and Gimp for design, Kate for coding and IEs4Linux+Firefox+Konqueror+Opera to test everything.

About ads: I changed the ads position from right to left (Google says it’s better) and removed top ads. I think that the ads are less intrusive now, but ads are always intrusive. You know, this is an open source project so I have to generate some revenue from ads and donations… so close your eyes to them (or adblock them) if they bother your