Click to visit: W W W . D I G I T A L S P Y . CO . U K

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It’s midweek and it feels like the right time to highlight one of my favourite websites that I tend to visit every other day or so.

Digital Spy is a British entertainment website that has up to date information on anything from soaps to showbiz, cult shows to gaming, movies to music and everything inbetween. It covers such a wide spectrum that I find I don’t really need to search around for the latest media news because DS will have it covered - and usually they do.

It’s not all articles though; there are also plenty of pictures, features, interviews, videos, a tv guide and forums to browse as well as RSS feeds for each section should you like your news to come to you.

It does cover many US shows, celebrities and network news, however, to get the most out of the website it’s best to be from, or have an interest in, the UK. Overall it’s a wonderfully entertaining and informative website that I can’t help but recommend.

Click to visit: W W W . B R O W S E H A P P Y . C O M

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For a long time Internet Explorer has been the browser of choice for many Windows users because it comes pre-installed and supported. That doesn’t mean that it’s the best or that you don’t have any other options, but what you need to know is why you should change at all.

Many years ago IE was considered unsafe to use and didn’t offer the features that its lesser known competitors did. However, times have changed and the gaps aren’t as wide as they once where… but there are still plenty of reasons to switch browsers, some of which are mentioned on Browse Happy.

The website focuses on a few different browsers and explains what features they have over IE such as security, speed and tabbed browsing (the latter available with IE 7) - mainly I think it’s worth visiting just to read the different user experiences as their opinions tend to be less biased than the site is overall.

To finish, it’s a nice website with useful links that’s set out in a clean and simple manner. For those of you with IE and have never experienced anything else, I recommend having a look at Browse Happy to see if there’s anything you’re missing out on.

On a personal note I believe everyone should use whatever they feel the most comfortable with, whether that be Firefox, Opera, or even Internet Explorer. I used to use IE myself but now use a FF based browser that is customized to my needs.

Last Friday I mentioned how I wanted to get all those niggling little issues with the blog sorted out ready for today. Did I manage to tick off all the boxes on my checklist? The short answer is no. The long answer requires a little more explanation.

I feel I was perhaps a little too confident that everything would be ready for when I wanted it to be. Despite the hours I’ve put into it things still aren’t exactly as I’d like, but I have made some progress. The biggest issue I feel right now is that this blog doesn’t look right when viewed with Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Opera appear to display as it should but the older browser renders pages incorrectly.

I could insist to visitors that they use a particular browser. I could change to a different template. What I could and will do are two different beasts as I feel like no one should need to compromise just to view a website, therefore, I will do what I can to fix the issue so all browsers will display the blog as I intend them to.

The next issue I have seems universal regardless of browser. When viewing separate blog posts that have no comments or trackbacks, the headings down the right hand side are bigger than they should be. This doesn’t effect usage in the slightest, but it’s not an intended feature so I hope to sort this out as soon as I find out what the cause is.

Thirdly, although I’ve tidied up some of the code that had errors in it, there is still a way to go yet. It shouldn’t display strangely (other than what’s been mentioned before) because of it though.

So if I haven’t fixed those issues and I’ve yet to add any new posts or pages, what exactly have I done up to now? There are a few less validation errors now, behind-the-scenes pages have been updated, and now comments and trackbacks are listed separately underneath posts (the default setting is that they’re mixed together).

I still have a lot of things I want to do so it’s unfortunate that personal events have stopped me from fully concentrating on them, but these things happen. Soon I hope it will all be sorted out and I’ll comment on this post when issues I’ve written about are fixed.

Thanks for your patience!

I’m a day behind schedule unfortunately, but after the headway today and over the weekend things should be back to normal by Monday. Here’s my checklist right now:

• Make sure blog posts and pages are as XHTML compliant as possible
• Update blog so all pages have valid CSS
• Have the site appear as it should when using Internet Explorer 6
• Change any headings that don’t show as they should when viewing posts
• Create an acknowledgments page to highlight what makes this site what it is
• Start adding Technorati tags to posts and pages
• Get back to adding websites!

We’ll see how many of these actually get done!

As posted about yesterday, today Go To That Site now has its own domain! From hence forth this site shall be known as gotothatsite.co.uk.

I’m really happy about this and very soon I’ll be getting back to posting websites, but my work is not yet done yet so it will have to wait just a little longer.

The blog transferred over without fault, however there are a few hiccups. I have a few validation issues to sort out so it looks good whatever browser is used (right now it looks better in Firefox than it does in Internet Explorer). I’m also checking links to make sure they don’t still go to the old website, as well as updating the name for continuity’s sake.

Hopefully by the weekend everything will have pretty much settled down. Thanks for your patience!

P.S - Don’t forget to update your bookmarks if you need to!