Hi all, I'm pretty certain the answer is no but does anyone have any experience with this website builder on the one.com website?

 

I'll try to make this as short as possible.

 

• Problem is that IE8 browser doesn't display our banner or other images
• I understand IE8 is on its way to being obsolete (but our site is pretty basic - the only fancy thing is a sliding banner at the top - so would like it to be available to as many browsers as possible)
• I could look at creating the site using something other than their website builder but my manager wants to be able to edit the site and its simple enough for him to use.
• One.com support sit back and say 'we don't support IE8, don't design your site for it and everyone should stop using it.

From a tech point of view I can totally appreciate if all the answers are 'don't design/think about IE8' but from a non-tech POV (i.e my managers) he will simply say 'our competitors site has sliding banners etc..' and theirs looks perfect in IE8 so ours should too.

 

I've seen things like response.js (which can bring non-IE8 sites almost back up to scratch) but I think this website builder will simply over-write it if I was to introduce it.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

John

Tell your manager to bin the one.com site builder. In fact don't use any site builder. There are so many modern platforms that will do the job so much better. Using any of them will open his eyes to how rubbish the site builder is.

 

And using them will mean he can see your banner on the ancient PC he is still using. In fact it's more important that the site works proberly on phones and tablets than it does on IE8.

The fact your manager is concerned about that browser is enough of a concern, really.

 

It created uproar in my day job where a release of an ordering system went out and many users couldn't see a fairly fundamental function (a date picker) due to the fact their company pretty much states that they must use IE8. It has been redeveloped now in such a way that users of IE8 and even IE7 can view the date picker.

 

I think it is just interesting to actually understand how many people still use those versions of that browser.

Hi fisicx/ MG1878, thanks very much for your reply. Just to clear a couple of things - none of our PCs in the office are using IE8, we are simply conscious of the fact that a customer may be using it and go to our website and think (well this is sh*t) and immediately look elsewhere.

 

Guesses at how many PCs are still using it are ranging from 2% to 8% so its definitely something to think about. I am glad that an alternative to the one.com site builder has been mentioned - would you be able to recommend some please (free if possible). the one.come site builder is simple but by no means perfect to use so I'm definitely interested in looking at other options.

 

Thanks again for your replies.

John

 

A lot depends on what sort of site you want. Wordpress is popular and easy to use once it's been set up. There are many others that have varying degrees of complexity. What they all have in common is complete flexibility, none of the tstictions that you have with one.com site builder. This means you can add just about anything you want to the site, in any configuration and any style.

 

And if you don't like the layout, you can switch to a new one in seconds with having to change any of your content. Once you have played with a CMS you will never want to use a site builder again.

Don't worry about IE8. No one in the industry develops sites and web-applicatons supported on <IE9 (including some of Googles and even some of Microsofts own products).

Even if you order a professionally designed website* the design agency will charge you double if it needs to look good on IE8.

 

*which you should, rather than using a site builder, if you care anything about your business

Excellent, thanks very much for that. I am downloading it now and will try to get back here with my results. thanks again, John

Excellent, thanks very much for that. I am downloading it now and will try to get back here with my results. thanks again, John

 

I was reading through this to make sense of this, you must mean you are downloading wordpress ? I ask as I could not see any explicit references from the previous posters directing anyone to 'download' anything but then I thought maybe it must be the CMS wordpress.

 

Cheers.

Edited April 22, 201610 yr by Mazzuccato

Excellent, thanks very much for that. I am downloading it now and will try to get back here with my results. thanks again, John

You can't run Wordpress on your PC without turning your PC into a virtual server. Wordpress needs to connect to a database so what you really need is to install Wordpress on your existing hosting. If you need help with this let me know. It takes less than 5 minutes.