A Little Construction
March 25, 2007 2:30 pm General, JoshMcConnell[dot]net, TechnologyOkay, so after a number of e-mails and a couple of comments, I’ve tried a number of different browsers over the past day or two. Thanks to everyone for the feedback!
I’ve decided to stick with Firefox as my guinea pig. I have been playing around with a number of extensions and themes and I am going to keep fooling around with it for a few more days at least. So far I only have three complaints (but I haven’t been thoroughly testing it yet, too busy):
- The font isn’t as smooth as in Internet Explorer. I’m a sucker for that extra little touch on the tiny things that don’t matter.
- When I try searching for something on Future Shop’s website, it doesn’t find anything and claims I didn’t put anything in the search box before I hit submit. Weird…
- I’m not a big fan of the RSS feed option or the popular RSS add-on you can download. If I can’t find a decent one, I guess I’ll still have to use a separate program for RSS feeds. That sucks.
Let’s hope the search box problem is just a temporary thing applicable only to Future Shop’s website. But when I open up Internet Explorer it seems to work… That’s not a good sign…
On the other hand, I love the auto spell-checker built into Firefox for when you are typing something in an entry field. Really cool.
I’ve been fooling around with a couple of plugins for this blog too. I tried to install a couple of Twitter ones so I can use something that is easier on the eyes than just the grey box to the right, but they didn’t seem to work properly. Dang it. I’ll keep looking…
The biggest plugin I added onto this blog can be seen at the bottom of every entry. It’s a Share plugin that allows you to send a specific entry to any of your favorite social networking websites (Ie: Digg or del.ico.us). When I first installed it, there must have been thirty or forty little icons at the bottom of each post… I cut it down to what I think are the most popular sites so it is less cluttered.
I’m just going to try the Share plugin for now and if it seems too distracting or cluttered then I’ll get rid of it. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions to make the blog better.
Rock on.
