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User: Guest 11 years ago
When EasyWeb goes live with the Rage Web Hosting how will someone be able to view their site before it is live on the "InterWeb" for checking things like html snippets or drop down menus since these currently do not give you any sort of live preview?
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
That's a good point!

One of the things I really like about Rage's WebDesign is the Preview button...



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Roddy

Website: http://everwebwidgets.com
Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html
NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own.
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User: Guest 11 years ago
Seemed like an obvious question to ask. I saw the March 31st date for current hosting customers ... thought someone should ask the question.

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User: Roddy 11 years ago
I must admit that I like to preview in Firefox, Chrome and sometimes Safari before I upload. I know a lot people don't bother but a lot of the time I catch mistakes in the preview that I didn't notice in the design app.

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Website: http://everwebwidgets.com
Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html
NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own.
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User: Guest 11 years ago
Don't forget booting up a PC and checking it in Internet Exploder
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
Testing in IE is a minefield. SInce I design mostly for mobile devices I can ignore IE 6,7 and 8 but try to test in 9 since its going to be around for a while.

IE 9 introduced a lot of support for CSS3 which previous versions lacked such as opacity and border radius but NOT text shadow, gradients, transitions or keyframe animations.

I'm firmly in the camp of those who refuse to compromise a web design by loading a whole bunch of crap for those ignorant enough to use IE - especially the redundant versions. Drag and drop software developers use PNGs to overcome IE 6, 7, and 8's inability to comply with the basic rules of CSS3 and the result is slow downloading web pages. Using all these PNGs for basic functions like navigation and image effects means that you either have to suffer a ridiculous download time or refrain from using features like media players.

After looking at the problem from all angles I decided to go with the "Mobile First" approach. This is where you create a CSS3 compliant stylesheet for mobile devices and desktops that are using modern browsers like Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE 10.

Then, if the visitor is using and older version of IE or Firefox, a fallback, heavy duty, stylesheet kicks in using an [if] in the HTML doc . This stylesheet is ignored by modern browsers and mobile devices so it doesn't compromise the page download time.

Doing it this way means that you don't have to create a sluggish juggernaut of a design just to appease a small percentage of surfers who are too ignorant or lazy to upgrade.

Microsoft were forced into adding support for @keyframes due to Apple's decision to drop flash support in iOS. This type of animation is replacing flash...

http://www.ezmacwebdesign.com/animation/slide-in-image.html

http://www.ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/CSS-Sliders/keyframes/bezel.html

What do you do about older versions of IE? V9 will be around for a long time due to those who are too cheap to upgrade their OS. This is a work in progress which is supposed to function in IE but I haven't tested it yet...

http://www.ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/CSS-Sliders/cloud-slide-in/index.html

I suppose you could replace it with a non-animated jQuery slider for older browsers but who is going to go to all this trouble unless they are being paid big bucks by a client to do it?

I hope that EasyWeb will have a way to implement these new(-ish) design philosophies and not get stuck on trying to support those that should be dead and buried!

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Roddy

Website: http://everwebwidgets.com
Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html
NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own.
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User: Guest 11 years ago
We (my brother ... I) use to design sites in flash until January 9, 2007 killed the way people used the interweb. That's about the time I first started using iWeb it just happened to create a site that displayed nicely on this new device called the "iPhone" that was showing up everywhere. Here is an Old site from 1998 or 1999 (most the links are broken but, it would dynamically resize depending on monitor size) http://jeffnitschke.com/GotMoved/pages/ ... /main.html

I think I use IE 8 to test on (don't feel like booting it up to check right now) on an older Dell media center pc.
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