New look at bikes@vienna  Our redesigned bikes@vienna site launched last week. It didn't happen without some pain, especially for our sysadmin. Not only did we launch the new site, but we switched servers. I had worked up the new design a while back, using some ideas from zeldman.com. I used some of his background and div ideas. Once I finally had the site working in all browsers on which I tested, it was migrated to the old server and tested. The most ornery browser turned out to be IE 5.6 on Mac OS 9.x. The divs never seemed to line up correctly. It turned out that the other browsers I tested were somewhat forgiving of a small miscalculation of the div width. Once I got it worked out exactly, all was fine.

We struggled for a long while on the old server, and the ISP support was abysmal. Instead of beating our heads against the wall, we switched ISP's. It seemed to be a good time to turn on the new site as well, but there were a few missing links and other problems that took a little debugging. All now seems to be well, and we think the site is a bit more user friendly.
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:28 PM #