Category: The Page

website… what?!?

mike d. 1 Comment Quickthoughts, The Page

Concerned Internet Reader:
“Mike D! Something’s wrong with your website!”

Mike D: “yeah… we’re working on it.”
CIR: “When will it be back and awesome again?”
Mike D: “probably not until the weekend.”
CIR: “oh no!”
Mike D: “it’s okay. I’ll reimburse you with brownies. Just e-mail me your address.”

The Answer to Schenk’s Question

mike d. 4 Comments The Page

In the post in the quickthoughts section today I beckoned the MikeDiDonato.com readers to switch to firefox. Ryan Schenk asked what the browser stats are for this website.

Great question Ryan!

Let’s take a look at the last 100 visitors.

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Oooh, exciting! let’s add the varieties together for a better picture.

Firefox: 47%
IE: 46%
Safari: 7%

FIREFOX WINS! but… just barely. That means that 46% of my readers are looking at a broken Internet Explorer page. It’s not pretty! let’s get some screen shots so y’all can see the differences.

First, IE.

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Notice the poor colors in the Quickthoughts and the Features section? NASTY! Even more disturbing is that if I post a picture… the post flies down to the bottom of the screen. WEAK!

Now, Firefox.

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Oh what elegant colors! And all the posts are lining up just right. Let’s make 2008 a great year for MikeDiDonato.com

Let’s all get rid of Internet Explorer.

Weird thing.

mike d. 2 Comments ExtremeWeb, The Page

A weird thing happened at work yesterday. I needed to find a means to make some six inch plumbing flexible. I opened up Google images and did a quick search for:

plumbing flexible 6″

I was cycling through the images trying to find something that might work when suddenly, I saw a picture of my bathroom plumbing. Google was suggesting my own website as a source of solution. Now, people find this place all the time through random searches… but it’s really weird when you find your own website by accident. It’s a very strange feeling.