Outer Spice Buzz

In an industry that is so often plug-and-play, to find exceptional customer service and dedication to a product is remarkable... I am beyond thrilled with the product we will end up with, due in large part to Brian's willingness to go above and beyond and ensure a successful product. Keep up the good work (and thanks for everything

- Stacey (The MMA Corner)

Amazing themes, and customer service was beyond great. We will purchase themes from you anytime.

- Lisa (Graphics N Jeneral)

You are a legend! It is all up and running great. This is the first time I have ever used WordPress and bought a theme. You have made the process very easy and you have one very happy customer!

- Danny (Men's Cover Model)

I wanted to thank you again for all the great work you did for my website. It has received a lot of great comments lately and I even had a great website review in our local paper.

- Suzanna (Seacoast Kids Calendar)

You ROCK! Thank you so much for being so responsive. That's highly unusual in this day and age, and I just want you to know how much I appreciate how quickly you responded to our needs. THANK YOU!.

- Lisa (Let My People Know)

I've downloaded, modified, used, and generally learned many themes, and I have to say that this one is a pleasure to work with compared to some of the others. The site is clean, and Outer Spice is quick to respond and very helpful. The colors are very well chosen, and the ads are placed well. This is a great buy if you like the theme. I'm sure you'll be happy.

- Marty (thebloggerspost via ThemeForest)

[Socket is] one of the best WP themes (I just love the Aluminum skin!). Great work and definitely my next purchase. This theme is close to perfect!

- Th30d0r3 (via ThemeForest)

Outer Spice did a great job on our web site! Everything works the way we envisioned it. They have been very responsive to our needs, developed great solutions to some of our unique challenges and were a pleasure to work with. The site works smoothly, looks great and never crashes. We will definitely continue to use them for our current web site as well as on future projects.

- Rodney (RTM Consultants, Inc.)

[Socket] is a damn good template and will have saved me days and days over writing my own site. I love this theme - it's great.

- TwistedKev (via ThemeForest)

Outer Spice has played an instrumental role in helping consult and bring our ideas to life. The newly rebuilt and updated site gets rave reviews and helps us continue to sell work and grow our company. Outer Spice listens well, has vision and talent, and does great work!

- Cory (True North Landscaping, LLC.)

Good job, guys!! Other developers should learn from you how to do dropdown animations - they are PERFECT. Good luck with sales. I'm a perfection hunter, so I've noticed your themes.

- _freshface (via ThemeForest)

The professionals at Outer Spice Web Company did a wonderful job designing our website. They were very knowledgeable, listened to our input and responded quickly, turning out a website that really reflects our products line.

- Karen (Knit Happy)

Great work on the theme! I use a lot of themeforest themes, and yours is by far one of my favorites... clients are going to love it.

- Stacey (Lawlis Creative)

Just wanted to tell you guys what a beautiful theme you have created! I have purchased several themes because I was not able to find the one that would fit my taste. Your theme has everything I need.

- Bill (via ThemeForest)

Blogs We Actually Read

Feb

Finally, All Versions of IE Simultaneously & Standalone

by Brian in Applications

Browsers, Chrome, Compatibility, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari

The ~~funny~~ depressing thing about Internet Explorer is that you can not install more than one version on your computer at a time. Since all versions render websites differently, and there are users out there still on version 6 even though the latest is version 8, web developers are left wasting countless hours making websites compatible with 3 separate browsers – and that’s just the IE Trident engine! That doesn’t take into account the Konqueror engine browsers like Safari and Chrome, the Gecko engine Firefox is based upon, or Opera’s Presto engine.

While I cannot help you with the amount of browsers you have to develop for at this point, I can ease your suffering a bit. Just go drink some whiskey! Actually here’s a better solution (I guess that’s debatable).

As I said, you can’t have more than one version of IE running on your machine natively in Windows. Most developers use unreliable emulators like IE Tester (my emulator of choice) to test websites. They work for the most part, but you can never be sure exactly how IE6 is going to display your site until you open your site on a computer that has IE6 and only IE6 installed. The way I do this is to RDP into a server that has IE6 installed. That’s a clunky, slow, cumbersome process, and usually the development web servers I use have high security and don’t display some of the page components I want to test.

Enter IE Collection. Finally, you can run all versions of Internet Explorer at the same time on your machine, each of them standalone. I’m not talking about versions 6 and up, I’m talking all the way from 1.5 to 8. Most of us wouldn’t need older than 6, but it’s still interesting to see what version 1.5 was like.

I can’t tell you how much time this is going to save me. I’ve literally been waiting for this for 4 years. Four. That’s how long you’re in high school. I don’t know how they did it, but I assume it has something to do with modifying DLLs so they don’t overwrite each other. That sounded knowledgeable, but I really don’t know the first thing about operating systems, so that’s as far as I’ll go.

So, download it, use it, enjoy it, and you know what? – go ahead and drink some whiskey anyway as a celebration. Cheers!