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If you want a website that you can manage yourself with relative ease, and without having to know any sort of web coding, a CMS (content management system) like Wordpress is definitely the way to go. Contrary to popular belief, Wordpress is not only for blogs. It’s one of the better blog management tools out there, for sure, but that’s not all it can do. It helps manages pages as well as multiple users, has plug-ins for things like photo galleries and mailing lists, and has one of the most intuitive user interfaces out there. Even better, if you have a designer in your corner (ahem, me), you can customize the theme to any style you want. Read the rest of this entry »

Any one who knows a web programmer even remotely well will probably have heard a rant about the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser at some point. If you are a programmer yourself, you’ve likely been the voice of numerous such rants yourself. I certainly have. You build a beautiful site, it looks perfect in every major browser – even IE7, which has it’s own ’special’ quirks. But IE6, for some unfathomable reason, refuses to recognize one little style or div tag, and suddenly it looks like your site got hit by a virtual grenade and is splattered in a haphazard fashion all over the screen. It’s a mess and fixing it, more often that not, results in the site looking bad in every other browser. So you have to do these complex, inefficient hacks on your own code just to get it looking good everywhere. This of course takes a considerable amount of time, as you can’t always tell right off which small tag is the one causing the problem, let alone hash out the work-around. Read the rest of this entry »