Mobile disaster

When you design a website nowadays you have to effectively make TWO websites. That wouldn't be so bad except for all of the BULLSHIT THAT SAFARI DOESN'T DO! I swear Safari is the new IE.

I don't care how well or responsive you write your code, Safari will always find a way to dash your hopes on the curb like so many teeth.

Pro my ass...

I am SICK of Wordpress plugins that have a PRO version.

What's worse is when they advertise certain features that are ONLY in the the "pro" version but hide that info until AFTER you have installed it. I guess they figure that now you have it and learned how to kinda use it, you will give them your hard earned monies. Let me tell you now, that is what will get me to remove that shit quicker than I install IE on Windows.

I wish Wordpress gave you the option to tell these companies WHY you are uninstalling their plugins. Tho' I suspect getting "I am deleting this plugin because you are all a bunch of money grubbing asshats" all day would grow tiresome.

They might as well just put, "We think you are too stupid to find a plugin that does what you want that is free".

I get that people should be paid for their work and alla that but maybe spread out the useful features huh? I feel like I am flying a discount airline when I download this shit. I shouldn't have to pay to have a seat INSIDE the plane.

Wix on... wix off...

As much as I dislike Wordpress still, even after learning it better (know thy enemy), I still have a slight disdain for sites like Wix, Mobirise, and Squarespace. It's not the fact they are like the Mac computers of the website creation world and made for soccer moms and people with more money than knowledge. No, it's the fact that someone was smart/evil enough to create a self-contained CMS system where, if you want the cool useful features, it costs extra and you can ONLY get it from them.

At least with Wordpress, if you don't want to pay for a theme, you can say "Fuck it, I'll just learn to make my own". The same with the plugins. These other fenced off assholes however keep their ball and make you come to their house. I think what makes it worse is that they charge you a pretty penny for the privilege of having a website that doesn't say "powered by so-and-so" at the bottom.


And for those thinking I am just bitter for not thinking of it first, you can stuff that kind of talk up your own custom backend.

< Ijustcan'teven >< /withthis >

A jock strap offers better support...

If anyone actually reads this damn blog, you will know my hatred of Wordpress.

Well, for the sake of the children, we sat down and had a long talk and now we both understand each other and are willing to work together... you know... for the kids.

However, the more I use custom templates that are for sale, the more I want to punch the authors of these designs in their fucking idiot faces.

Yes I tried turning off all my plugins before I contacted you...

I appreciate they have done half the work for me. Hand coding responsive websites sucks. However, when something goes awry with their coding and I find a bug they somehow missed because they didn't test it properly it kind of annoys me, especially when it's something they SHOULD have found through basic usage.

"That's not that bad" you say? You're right, it's not. HOWEVER, it's when I contact them and let them know their shit is jacked up. They either A: Treat me like a fucking idiot or B: completely ignore most of my post/question where I laid out the exact details of my problem and what I have done and they respond with the equivalent of, "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

That's just the emails. Gawd forbid I have to interact with a whole team of guys on a forum. I get the same requests from 4 different people because none of them could be bothered to read the previous posts that laid out all of the details they are asking for.

"It works on our machine. See?" Yeah that's great. You just showed me a photo of a layout that is NOTHING like the photos I posted so your tiny mind wouldn't have to guess at what I am talking about!

I have been on the verge of asking for a refund I don't know how many times because their themes break easily AND their "support" is a joke... but I don't. Why you ask? I clearly hate myself...

But not as much as I hate them.

I don't understa....

The other shoe...

Well Internet Explorer is finally going the way of the Dodo.

What worries me is it will be the same old shit in a new box. With any luck it will be shiny better working poop all tarted up in new clothes but I guess we will all have to wait and see when "Project Trojan", or whatever they are calling it, comes out.

It seems the logo at the top of this blog might have been a bit of a prediction but will soon be redundant.