minning.de VI

It’s been more than two years since the last major revision to minning.de. To coincide with the upcoming release of a new version of Normality I thought it would be a good idea to finally push through with the new design that’s been cooking for almost ten months.

WordPress remains my CMS of choice and I am very happy with the latest version. I was considering both Drupal and TYPOlight, but WP does everything I need and does it well.
My new design also makes heavy use of jQuery, which I am using to spruce up the site with some neat effects and also to significantly cut down on loading times through the use of AJAX; according to my tests, this iteration of minning.de is fastest I’ve ever developed, even though it is by far the most complex personal website I’ve worked on.

And thanks to web browser’s increased standards compliance developing this site was relatively painless and at times an actually enjoyable process. Firefox and Safari pretty much render the way one expects them to.

At this point I’d also like to send out a really big F***YOU to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
From the get go I decided not to make any effort whatsoever to support IE6. Little did I know that IE7 would require personal attention as well.
It’s almost like Microsoft is intentionally trying to screw web developers: They have accumulated nearly a handful incompatible versions that each require individual hacks and to top it off, you can’t install them at the same time to test your site – brilliant!