Good News. Bad News.

What do you want first? The good or the bad? Let’s go with the bad.

The bad. So, it’s the weekend and I’m just hanging around the house. It starts to rain, and then I hear thunder, so the little meteorologist in my head tells me that a storm is coming. I head to my room to shutdown my computer and switch off the power cord, but, stupid me, I switch the power cord before the computer finishes shutting down. I didn’t think anything of it because I have done it before, so I just went on my way.

About an hour later, I no longer hear rain, and the sound of thunder is slowly fading into the distance, so that little, genius meteorologist tells me that the storm has passed. I head back to my room and turn on my computer, fire up Internet Explorer, and it freezes. No biggie! Not yet, at least.

To make a very long, arduous, and frustrating story short, IE6 no longer works on my computer. It simply freezes, if not as soon as I open the browser, then a few Web pages later. I have been troubleshooting over the last few days, with help from the great minds over at the SitePoint Forums, but a solution is yet to be found. I’m sure you’re asking yourself, “uh, why not use another browser?” Well, the answer is that I am (Mozilla), but I’m very tense and won’t feel relaxed until I know that everything is back normal.

The good. The Get the Look design guides are in the process of being made over. Exciting, huh?! Here is a list of some of the changes, all of which are intended to either (1) make the guides easier and nicer to use, or (2) improve the guides from a content and helpfulness standpoint.

• New headers and borders, which improve the overall look and usability of the guides
• 50px wider, giving more breathing room for the content, thus making the guides easier to use
• Cleaner layout of the content, overall
• A new color section that will include suggested colors from the 216 web safe color palette
• Updated techniques and a couple new “Putting it all togethers”

The new guides should be posted to the site within the next couple weeks, so keep an eye out!