Freed from IE6!

It has been more than 8 months since www.yola.com went live with a redesign, built and designed by a small team of people here in Cape Town.
Before we started the build (after months of design by committee), a simple decision was made: Let’s abandon Internet Explorer 6. This simple decision has had a significant impact on our development and design work at Yola, all for the better.
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CSS Reset and ‘Sensible Defaults’

Web Standards Advocates should really be called Zealots. I am also guilty of punting Web Standards, sometimes with no sound reasoning behind my convictions. This ‘blind faith’ led me to a point where one of my team members reigned me in and showed me the misinterpretation of my ways, and it had all to do with Reset CSS and my lack of ‘Sensible Defaults‘.

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