New image for the Columbus Symphony

2008 marks a new year, a new image and a new website for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. For the past few months I had been working on their new website. Their new image reflects bright, vibrant and energetic colors. The website needed to reflect this as well. I also built a custom administration area for them. This includes a way for different departments to contribute to the website with newsletters, press releases, events, news, etc.

So, check out the new look for the Columbus Symphony and if you’re in town check out a show

IE6 image toolbar removal

You might recognize that little toolbar in the upper left corner of the image below. Maybe you recognize the character too…

Anyway, As a developer you hate that toolbar, it gets in the way of your pretty website. Well there are a couple ways to remove it. Its only occurs in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), but according to the W3C’s Browser Statistics, IE6 is still accounting for just over 33% of the market. If you are not, you should be testing your sites for every major browser whenever possible so your website is cross browser friendly.

Ok, lets get down to business.

The first way to remove the toolbar removes it from the site entirely. (My personal favorite.) In involves a simple meta tag.

<meta http-equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no”>

The second way is to put a tag on specific images (untested, but sure to work )

<img src=”image.jpg” galleryimg=”no” />

Now your site won’t look so silly in IE6, well atleast you can remove the IE6 image toolbar.

removing dotted links

If you use firefox, you may know what I mean. Its those dotted lines around links. below is a screenshot of what I am talking about

Now there are a few ways as a developer to remove these. I always thought it was easiest to just throw one line of css into your document, but some research shows otherwise… [...]

its up and running

Well I finally got the blog up and running. I’m going to post about web design and development issues. From time to time Ill post some experimental code as I have been working with mootools (javascript library) lately.

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