January 2008 - Website Of The Month: Martin

[Bagi Zoltán]

As the requested judge of this competition I would like to announce the winner, which is not else than Martin's website.

Congratulation to Martin, this is a very unique website so never stop maintaining this!

[gkd_uk]

Congrats Martin

[espmartin]

WOW! There was tons of other great sites up for this as well.

I thank you all, and remember - the site is being redesigned this month

[Resonate]

Originally Posted by espmartin

WOW! There was tons of other great sites up for this as well.

I thank you all, and remember - the site is being redesigned this month

Look forward to it, hope your staying with same color scheme

[piet]

congrats martin, nice design

[espmartin]

I have a confession to make

I have harbored bad feelings towards Internet Explorer 6/5.5/5.0/etc... So much so
that I've been cutting my own throat with this sites CSS design. If you view it in
FF/Opera/IE7/standards-compliant browsers (YES!!!! IE8 Passes Acid2!!!!) you see
what I've intended.

But with IE<6, you get a wide space on the left, and PNGs that fail. NOT that the site
is broken, but it does not look as good as in FF/etc.

Why would I do that? Shouldn't I use IE CSS hacks and IE conditional statements?
Doing so will make that browser behave. Well, the answer is simple, "I have, but now I don't want to"

I'm going to, with the re-design, either create the necessary crap hacks for IE<6, or
do away with that particular layout, and use a more cross-browser one.

But just to let all you IE<6 users know...my site looks that way to you on purpose.

[SkinnerW]

Martin,

As promised please submit your site for free listing in my World Web Directory and ignore payment page.

[espmartin]

Thanks! I've filled out the form, and stopped at the Paypal login. Did I get in?

[SkinnerW]

Your listing is live here: Web Standards in Design and it's also on the home page.

[espmartin]

That's so cool.