A couple months ago, I began having problems (on my end) with www.museinterrupted.com redirecting (or pointing) to www.cindyprocter-king.com/blog. This began after an update to Internet Explorer 8, the web browser I most frequently use. I didn’t always use IE. I used to be a steadfast Netscape Navigator user. So you’d think I would have gravitated to Firefox rather than going backward to IE. It’s the web designing that got me using IE again, simply because, at the time that I redesigned this site and built one for Penny, it was the most popular browser and therefore it was (and still is) very important for me to ensure that my websites look decent on IE.
I am trying to remember to use Firefox, and soon hopefully I can turn my IE habit into a Firefox one (I’m more inclined to use Firefox now that the Facebook Scrabble game isn’t glitching on the browser like it was for me all summer). When I do use Firefox, I don’t have a problem with the redirect to my blog not working. I type www.museinterrupted.com into the browser, and it brings me here like it’s supposed to.
I need some testing from my blog readers so I can learn if this is just a glitch on my end or for others as well. If you use Internet Explorer 8, how do you usually arrive at my blog? Via www.cindyprocter-king.com/blog or via www.museinterrupted.com? If you type in the latter with IE 8, do you get a Page Can Not Load Error (or a variation thereof)? I’m assuming IE 7 doesn’t have the problem, because I never encountered it before I upgraded to IE 8. However, if you have the issue with IE 7 or any other browser, please let me know in the comments section. Thank you!
When I’m talking about my blog on other sites or Facebook, etc., I find it so much easier to refer to www.museinterrupted.com, not only because it’s a shorter URL but because then I don’t have to worry about browsers mistakenly typing a dastardly second O into my name (as in Proctor-King, excuse me while I barf), which definitely won’t bring them here.
Please test by opening a new window and typing www.museinterrupted.com into the window at the top. Don’t test by clicking on the Muse Interrupted links within this post, because, strangely, when I preview this blog post the darn links work. It’s when I type the URL into the browser window that I get the error messages on IE 8.
Thanks!
I had no problem!
Yes, I’m commenting via Firefox, but I held my breath and opened IE8 and typed http://www.museinterrupted.com and it came up and I quickly shut the program down. LOL
Thanks, Natalie.
LOL, why did you quickly shut down the program? Is it addictive?
Maybe I have to remember to hold my breath…
no proble for me either 😉
It works if I type in http://www.museinterrupted.com, but not plain ol’ museinterrupted.com, which works for other sites. Gotta have the www, apparently.
Was that even what you wanted to know? I was reading fast, LOL.
Thanks, Emmanuelle. I wonder what gremlins are screwing up on my end?
As long as people can find me from the Muse Interrupted URL, I’m happy. If *I* can’t find me, I can live with that. 🙂
Avery, thanks. It doesn’t work for me if I use the www or not. And, yes, you helped, even reading fast!
Hi Cindy,
I’m typing this comment from IE8, after opening it on my desktop (I still have IE 7 on my laptop) and putting http://www.museinterrupted.com in my address bar. It worked just fine.
Ordinarily I use FF as well…
Looks like it’s just me. Thanks, everyone!
No problem for me, either. I use Google Chrome.
I just hate IE, Cindy. 🙂