Comments on: John Newth's excellent analysis…and my workaround

By: Jason Holden

Jason Holden — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:50:19 +0000

You may well be right Dennis, and no doubt that is the way forward, for now I am leaving well alone, I did the site when I first set up and had time to kill, now I think any redesign would kill me!

But, I will not sell out and using a generic site like so many poor souls!!

First I have to sort the firefix issue out, then next consider an interactive platform, then hopefully it will be time to retire and sit on the beach, how’s spain today?

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:44:44 +0000

Update – a shade under 40% for FF – as to a redesign, might I (gently) suggest (ahem, cough, splutter) you think about moving it to an interactive platform that is self-sustaining?

Nothing wrong with the content.

By: David Tebbutt

David Tebbutt — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:44:33 +0000

Hi Jason. Like Dennis, a fair number of my visitors use FireFox – 26% against 54.5% for Internet explorer. Opera scores 3.5%.

The problem for website design generally is that IE is not W3C compliant. It’s best to get stuff working in FireFox then tweak it for IE.

I have been through this agony recently with one of my sites. I’d be happy to share what I’ve learnt.

By: Jason Holden

Jason Holden — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:38:35 +0000

I hear you loud and clear Dennis, time to look at my site and work out how to get it looking good in firefox.

I hope other than this people appreciate my site, I designed it and maintain it myself, no crap lets have it like everyone elses site big corp site for me, more the lets keep control of it and do it ourselves, plus I have to admit I enjoy it.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:34:29 +0000

Firefox and its derivatives have about 1/3 of my readsership – that’s big enough for me. FF is inherently more stable and secure + it has lots of really useful features.

By: Jason Holden

Jason Holden — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:25:40 +0000

Hi David, thanks for that, we have many IT company clients who keep telling us the same thing, but as I keep telling them firefox only has a small market share (at the moment), and as such I am not too worried about this aspect of the site, yet, as I understand it, it is only a bit of code I need to change so I guess this is another job for me, why do these companies have to make the life of the small business so difficult!

By: David Tebbutt

David Tebbutt — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:17:25 +0000

Jason: your website looks horrible in FireFox. Just thought you’d like to know. It seems okay in Opera and Internet Explorer.

By: Jason Holden

Jason Holden — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:04:29 +0000

Interesting, we are currently in (I hope) the final stages of testing phone recording software that (I think) can also record what happens in the room when in meetings (if you want).

It would appear we have chosen the ideal time for looking into implementing this.

At this rate it won’t be long before everything is recorded, what’s the world coming to?

And as for play back, I never thought I sounded like that, is that really how people hear my voice, I hope its only the quality of my speakers or the recording devise!

By: David Tebbutt

David Tebbutt — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:44:38 +0000

Thanks for the mention Dennis.

May I mention a most superb recorder? It’s simple, it’s low cost, it needs no external equipment – I have recorded absolutely clearly from 12 feet away. It’s an iRiver 790.

I dare say it’s been updated since I bought it (December last year) but I can’t see that the quality will have been reduced.

It also contains a radio and the ability to record from an external source (line in) and play back MP3 files. The accompanying desktop software allows you to convert recordings to MP3 as well. Great for simple podcasting. And meeting tax inspectors.