MJS Blog http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog The MJS blog was created to share with others our successes, mistakes and experiences while on the internet. I hope we're able to provide some useful and meaningful advice in the process. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 en mjswebsolutionshttp://feedburner.google.com Test Everything http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mjswebsolutions/~3/6RuVzh9GdrE/ http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/test-everything/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:58:15 +0000 Michael Swartz Computer Personal Business http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/test-everything/ Muppets BeakerWhoops!

I almost sent out a confirmation email without seeing if I could login to their application or not. Well, I can’t. Good thing I didn’t send that email.

Test Everything

I learned that early in my career. There are so many things you have to check before launching a website, application or a simple web form.

What I learned was:

  1. Make one change
  2. Test it
  3. If it works, move on. If not, test again

If you test each change individually, you’ll always know what did or didn’t work. You’ll never figure out what isn’t working if you make too many changes at one time.

“Test, test and test again”. You can never be too careful.

]]> http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/test-everything/feed/ http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/test-everything/ MJS Web Solutions Receives MAC Gold Award from Boys and Girls Club of Alameda http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mjswebsolutions/~3/XB89O9H6t2U/ http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/29/mjs-web-solutions-award-alameda-boys-and-girls-club/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 16:21:29 +0000 Michael Swartz News http://www.mjswebsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/29/mjs-web-solutions-award-alameda-boys-and-girls-club/ Boys & Girls Club MAC Gold Award to MJS Web SolutionsMJS Web Solutions was awarded the MAC (Marketing and Communications) Gold Award from the Boys and Girls Club of Alameda for contributing their web development skills towards the We Can Build This marketing campaign.

“Please accept our thanks for the wonderful work you’ve done on behalf of the Alameda Boys & Girls Club. You have created a sense of professionalism and competence that reflects favorably on our efforts.” - George Phillips and Kathie Woulfe, Boys and Girls Club of Alameda

The We Can Build This marketing campaign was created to build awareness and encourage supporters to help the Boys and Girls Club of Alameda build a new 25,000 square foot Youth Development Center in Alameda, California.

The campaign also won top honors at the Boys and Girls Club National Convention.

The Boys and Girls Club of Alameda Needs You!

Since the campaign was launched (early this year) we have reached 60% of our goal. Please, consider making a lasting investment in our children and our community. Visit, the We Can Build This website and donate today.

Thank you.

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A client of ours contacted us to let us know after they downloaded the new Internet Explorer 8 there site looked messed up.

Knowing this was going to be a problem, Microsoft created a button called ‘Compatibility View‘ so users could view websites in the older version of their browser.

But this was not a work around for our client.

Instead of fixing (or hacking) all the code on the website I added the following code recommended by Microsoft:

<html>
<head>
<!-- Mimic Internet Explorer 7 -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >
<title>My Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Content goes here.</p>
</body>
</html>

It worked!

This is truly a work around - a Microsoft work around. Microsoft knew full well that their new browser couldn’t view perfectly good standard coded websites, so they had to come up with a way to view websites as if you were using their old browser.

What a joke. It’s no wonder why Microsoft is losing market share to Firefox and Apple.

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