Learning a Lesson - Check Other Browsers

You would think I’d remember. It’s happened to me a few times recently. But yesterday I was reminded again: Just because my blog or site looks great in my favorite browser, doesn’t mean it will look great in a different browser.

I made a change to my blog’s style sheet yesterday morning and actually remembered to check the site with an alternate browser. Much to my surprise, the blog was a mess with Internet Explorer, despite looking perfect in Firefox. I backed out the change I just made, but that didn’t fix the problem.

So the search was on to find the cause. No easy task, since I couldn’t remember making any other recent changes. Luckily it didn’t take too long to discover the consequences of neglecting to close an HTML heading tag.

Of course there’s no way to check all the different browsers, but the two most common are still Internet Explorer and Firefox. IE users are split between version 6 and version 7 and I don’t know if you can install both on one system. Here are last month’s stats from the W3 Schools site:
IE7 - 22% of users
IE6 - 30.7%
Firefox - 36.5%

Hopefully from now on I’ll remember to check after every change. What I really should do is keep a change log…….

~Linda
Who always has been resistant to change.

Given the All Clear

Lately, I’ve had very little time to work.  We were all hit with a flu bug and there’s just so much going on at school with the kids it’s hard to keep up!

Luckily, I’ve been setting my business up the last year to sort of tick over even if I need time off.  I especially made sure to do this when we were  hit with a health scare a few months back…

I posted that my son had a lump in his neck and the doctors told me to “wait and see”… well after the lump didn’t go away and in fact it got bigger.  They sent him for tests, no conclusive results.

The doctor kicked things up a notch and said that we should do a biopsy just to be safe because they didn’t know for sure whether the lump was cancerous or not…

So we waited and days before he was due to go in… the lump disappeared!  So the doc cancelled the biopsy and we decided it must have been some sort of infection and have put it behind us…

But boy were those days scary.  I did also think what if I had a job to go out to or didn’t have the flexibility with my work that I now have?

Once again, I feel extremely grateful for the position I am in and most of all that my son’s okay. 

When events like this happen they really make you stop and think… without health nothing else really matters much at all.  I’m grateful today we’re all healthy and well.

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