I’m subscribed to a weblog that posts interesting articles about the type of area I work in. I also use Firefox as my (mostly) browser of choice. When I clicked through to the actual blog from my feed reader, the template wasn’t working properly so I couldn’t actually read the text. It did, however, work in Internet Explorer when I checked it there.
Being the courteous blogger I am I thought I’d email the author to let them know. I hunted around for an email address but couldn’t find one. There was an About page, but no contact information.
So I thought I’d leave a comment and mention it that way. To leave a comment I had to login to WordPress but I don’t have a WordPress login.
So this blogger still doesn’t know that there is a problem with their template and I have no way of letting them know. I did consider adding a link here, but decided against that because I’d rather tell them privately via email.
I even checked the original WordPress theme and that plays nicely in Firefox, so I guess something the blogger has done has broken the theme.
My two main messages to you are: test your blog different browsers if you can, and leave some sort of contact information, or at least make it easy for people to comment.
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Just to let you know that you can also report sites that don’t render correctly in Firefox by choosing from the menu Help – Report Broken Website. I believe it lets the Mozilla team know so they can do changes to coding to ensure more sites render correctly in future versions.
Cheers
Hmm – at least it can’t have been me, as I don’t use WordPress and I use Firefox anyway.
Good tip by Sea Eagle that I didn’t know.
But thanks for the reminder – when I next (finally) get around to updating my site I will put better (i.e. any) contact me information on there!!!
As per Sea Eagle’s comment, I have now reported the website I talk about to Firefox.