List-Corp.Com

I've recently finished a huge project for List-Corp.Com, Inc., which was a site design, and graphics creation for a large, and modern national business directory. You can click and view their web site. They have signed on for me to create the designs an graphics they'll be using for their entire network of nine total web sites by the end of 2007.

They wanted a design that was easy on the eyes, and ad-free site, and something easy to navigate and locate the information they have in their almost ten thousand categories.

I'm also building some of the software they are using! For instance, they wanted an easy method to have current news headlines on their front page, that could draw from multiple sources. Now usually JavaScript can be used to do this, but they wanted content that could be indexed by search engine spiders, so I built a handy little ISAPI to hit multiple sites, with the keywords they specified, parse the news links, and send them back to a file they could place with Server Side Includes.

The project has really went well, and they have a ton of information available, If I so say so myself, it's the nicest directory on the web.

IE7 Breaking Websites

Is Internet Explorer Version 7 breaking your CSS? Especially your 3-column layouts??? It's probably all the IE CSS hacks that you have for IE6 according to the IE developer staff, Their support for standards is greatly improved.

I know I'm having a heck of a time with some float issues. But that's the price we pay for the relative ease of CSS design. I mean remember tables?

About the only thing I use a table for these days is for a form design, still pretty easy to make those look good with the use of tables. But back to IE 7 breaking our CSS

The title of this post has a few answers, and below our some helpful links for you if you are facing this bug-a-boo. I guess we should have downloaded the beta of IE? Huh...

Some IE Blog Posts
IE7 CSS Hacks

Oh, and while I'm at it who else hates Yahoo and Google for indexing content on webmasterworld.com??? I mean you can't access the content, without a subscription but it seems neither Yahoo or Google have figured out this yet. You thing with a billion or so dollars you could put a few people on it especially for a site that has probably thousands of indexed pages!

Just de-list them already! You know how many times I've clicked on a link of their's and come up with a, "Only Paid, lah-de-oo-ga-dee"

Anyway good luck with the IE7 troubles... Hope this post helps a little.

BoogleBot

What's Up with GoogleBot??? Seems like it's been crawling my server for days on end, off and on. Sometimes it goes aways and is right back in a minute or two? Does anyone know if Google has the capabilities to crawl sites that there are no external links to?

That's a good question, because sometimes I put up a site I'm working on, if I go Server Side Includes, to test it out.

If anyone know the answer, please post it here. That way I don't have to research it for hours. Just a quick note to le me know, maybe I can do something for you someday...

Thanks in advance... OneSurfer