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I’ve created lots of websites in the past using the tried and tested method of creating tables and messing about with spacer images until everything seems to work. Sometimes, this has been a hugely frustrating undertaking - especially trying to get things to work across browsers.

…and then we change something, and it all falls to pieces!!!

Now, I’ve always used CSS to manage the styles across my sites, Read the whole article - Tables vs. CSS

We all know that we should test our websites once we’ve developed them, and that we should test them in multiple different browers, but how easy is it to actually do this?  I have Firefox 3.0, IE6 and IE7 at my disposal, and I could probably install Flock and Safari, but what about SeaMonkey running under FreeBSD, or what about running on a Mac platform???  Read the whole article - Testing Your Websites

One of the nice features of Worpress (used for this blog) is that people can register as a user which lets themreceive notifications whenever I add new content.  Whenever this happens, I receive an email notification that they’ve registered - and as you can imagine, I like receiving emails like this.

Today though, this all changed!  Read the whole article - Wordpress Flaw

Wow - that was SO EASY!

You know what it’s like with ANY upgrade - I was understandably nervous.  The reality was that it took me longer to back everything up before I started than it did to actually run the upgrade!

If anyone hit the maintenance page that’s been up for about 10 minutes - I apologise and I hope that you made it back in order to see the new site in all it’s glory!

In fact, the site looks just the same as it did before the upgrade on the front page (so the Semiologic theme IS in fact compatible with 2.5) it’s just the admin interface that’s changed drastically - and for the better, it seems!

As I get more familiar with the changes, I may well post some more info.  For now - now that I know that the “posting” function still works - I can deactivate the maintenance page and get the site back up.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with Wordpress 2.5, or was it more challenging for you?

Please leave your comments below….

Well, I may be mad, but I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress - version 2.5!  This seems to be a huge step forward from my current version, and I’d love to think everything will “just work”.  My biggest concern though, is with the Semiologic theme that I’ve been using.  It hasn’t been updated since 27th June 2007 and I have a horrible feeling that my whole design will come crashing round my feet when I try to restart the blog….!

I’m planning to tackle this before the end of the week, so if you visit my blog during this time and it’s down - please come back again!

For my Entrecard advertisers,  I’m intending to put up a holding/maintenance page (maybe even a duplicate site), but if I DO cause any significant downtime, I’ll reimburse the people affected with double the credits that they originally paid me for the ad space.  That’s fair, isn’t it?

Finally, I’ll post an update here when the upgrade’s in place.

Watch this space……