I have added Gravatars to my site and made a few changes to the way comments are displayed and used. You may now use Gravatars in your comments and reply directly to specific comments, rather than only to the initial posting.
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Please check back shortly… This site has just undergone a major renovation and I am still getting content, tutorials, and freebies in place. Thanks for visiting!

Many inexperienced web developers often skip over or miss-understand the importance of DocType declarations. It is of crucial importance in today’s web development world to properly define your markup. If improper DocTypes are used, you can easily cause IE to switch to quirks mode. I am not going to get into quirks mode in this post, please do a search for more information!

Please note that for many of my demonstrations and tutorials to work, especially in Internet Explorer, you must be using a standards compliant !DOCTYPE, which for IE this needs to be in the first line of your HTML.
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As a web developer it seems that I am endlessly dealing with IE browser compatibility issues. As many of you may know, having multiple physical or virtual Microsoft PC’s just to run various versions of IE is definitely not a convenient option. For those of you working on Apple iMacs and Linux machines, this may go against everything that you stand for.

To solve this problem you can use this IE compatibility testing utility to see how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, instantly. Just type in a URL and the site generates a screen shot on the fly. Unlike other screenshot services, this site process a large number of capturing jobs in realtime, making it the fastest compatibility testing service that I know about.
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