Bye Bye IE6, It’s (not) been fun.

06-04-2009

Internet Explorer is the bain of any web designer’s existence. It has been twice superceded, it displays CSS poorly, and more often than not, many modern scripts just don’t work on it.

LinkArtist Multimedia, like other companies (including Apple & Google) are going to be proactive in killing it off. As of June 30, we are no longer going to support Internet Explorer 6 in any of our websites as standard. If your site requires Internet Explorer 6 testing & development, it will now add to the cost of your project.

As a client of LinkArtist, you now have 3 options:

1. Ignore IE6 (and hopefully it will go away!)
2. Install a script on your website that encourages people to upgrade their browser (or has a disclaimer that, because the site is being viewed on IE6, user experience may be different to how it was intended.)
3. Pay for additional development time for Internet Explorer development & testing.

Naturally, IE7 & 8 will still continue to be supported, as will Firefox, Safari & Chrome.

This has been a long time coming, folks… Remember Netscape, anyone? :) It’s time to hold a funeral.

New Project: Kirsty Eagar

06-03-2009

Kirsty is a dream client. Not only does she have a rockin’ first novel coming out, but she is one of those wise clients that just allow me to “do my thang”. This design is the (rather spectacular if I do say so myself) result :)

Kirsty, I wish you the best of luck with your novel – and I urge everyone to pick up a copy and support our local talent.

Check out the site (and subscribe to Kirsty’s blog) at http://www.kirstyeagar.com

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New Project: Justine Ungaro

06-02-2009

Ellen Petty (from Identity Kitchen) and I have grand plans to revolutionise the way photographers use their websites. Wordpress is such a valuable tool for the professional photographer – I am even working on an ebook on the topic! I have become somewhat of a whizz in the Wordpress Photography blogsite, and love doing them.

So of course, when my favourite ever client, all round awesome person, and above all else, shit-hot-awesome photographer, Justine Ungaro, asked me to collaborate with Ellen on her site, well, the answer was a resounding “hell to the yes”.

This is the result. Its the little things about this design that make it, well, kinda awesome. And yes, entirely powered by WordPress.

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New Project: Jarrah Grove Retreat

06-02-2009

First off, apologies for not updating the blog very frequently. As you may or may not be aware, in late February I gave birth to my third child, Angus. He was premature and I fell behind on a few things, like blogging… so in the next few weeks I will be unveiling some new projects and writing some more articles.

Anyway, in collaboration with YourSite (a great CMS), I designed & HTML/CSSed this site for Jarrah Grove Retreat – a lovely new luxury chalet retreat in Margaret River. Be sure to check them out and tell them I sent you… we hope to get down when the baby is older :)

It is worth noting that I quite literally worked on this whilst in hospital. If anyone has ever doubted my commitment to my work, that’s proof, I guess :)

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