Ok, I have mostly fixed the issues with the webpage that IE was freaking out about while Firefox and Opera displayed it perfectly.  The main page works as expected in IE now, although the individual post pages for some reason show a horizontal and vertical scrollbar.

You know what? That’s good enough for me right now. I mean, surely everyone should know by now that IE is the largest piece of donkey turd ever and should have switched over to Firefox or Opera. So come on people! Get out there, download the excellent alternatives and see my page as it was intended

Or at the very least, reduce the security issues that you get with IE and be safe on the ‘net.

[Edit: No longer using Blogger]

Venomous Kate from over at Electric Venom was kind enough to drop me an email and let me know that my comment links were having issues and that it took some digging to be able to post comments from some browsers.

The only place I could figure that the problems were coming from was the peekaboo comment code that I was using. I’ve removed that code now so that by clicking on the “X Comments” link it should now take you directly to the post comment page.

Chalk it up to being over eager and trying to add gadgets (the curse of being a techno geek). At some point I might switch over to Haloscan comments as they seem to be a little more robust and useful than the blogger stuff. For now the standard comments will suffice.

She also pointed out that the page doesn’t validate correctly. After checking through a large portion of the 1200 or so errors, it would seem that they come almost exclusively from the following

• Blogger’s own code in the templates
• External html being returned from a few of the hacks that I use
• a few errors coming from Live Writer

Unfortunately that means that most of them are errors that I can’t do anything about for now. Unless I move over to a different blog host that allows me more control over the template then I guess the errors are here to stay.

[Edit: No longer using Blogger]

I only just found today that comments aren’t appearing on individual post pages. They show up fine with the peekaboo comment script on the main page though.

Going to have to look into that on Monday.

[Edit: No longer using Blogger]

I thought that I had found a way to use Live Writer to add Blogger Beta Labels to my posts. Unfortunately I was only half right. I was able to make labels search links in the posts, but the labels for each post itself are not transferred to Blogger.

The only workaround I have at the moment is to insert Technorati tags and then manually copy those tag labels to Blogger by editing the post. It’s a pain but hopefully they will include this functionality in the future.