Sunday, April 4, 2010

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I made a site on DW that looks great on Firefox, Netscape and
Safari, but IE destroys it (i.e. you open it in IE and the fonts
are all psychotic, the placements are screwed up, etc.)!

Anything I'm doing wrong or should be doing?

Thanks in advance!Displaying site on multiple browsers
%26gt; I made a site on DW that looks great on Firefox,
Netscape and Safari, but

%26gt; IE

%26gt; destroys it (i.e. you open it in IE and the fonts are
all psychotic, the

%26gt; placements are screwed up, etc.)!

%26gt; Anything I'm doing wrong or should be doing?



IE sucks. The only think you are probably 'doing wrong' is
not fully

understanding the quirks in IE and testing for them. There's
a lot of quirks

and a lot of hacks to fix the various issues with IE.



-Darrel





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What is the link to the site?



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''Kaklz'' %26lt;webforumsuser@macromedia.com%26gt; wrote in message


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%26gt;


%26gt; I made a site on DW that looks great on Firefox,
Netscape and Safari, but

%26gt; IE

%26gt; destroys it (i.e. you open it in IE and the fonts are
all psychotic, the

%26gt; placements are screwed up, etc.)!

%26gt; Anything I'm doing wrong or should be doing?

%26gt; Thanks in advance!

%26gt;




The site is called www.lasbestprinter.com. It's not the best
printing website you'll find, as I'm just starting with this web
design stuff. First site I've actually built.

quote:





IE sucks. The only think you are probably 'doing wrong' is
not fully

understanding the quirks in IE and testing for them. There's
a lot of quirks

and a lot of hacks to fix the various issues with IE.



-Darrel







Agreed that IE sucks, but what's all this about quirks and
hacks and such? Despite the fact that it sucks, a lot of people
still use it and my site looks like sh** on it.


The way to avoid the ''IE Sucks'' thing is to code your pages
to standards.

IE in standards mode is much better than IE is sucky mode
(quirks mode).

Code to standards by a) knowing the standards, and b) using
valid and

complete doctypes on your pages.



Your page looks fine in IE7, except for some overflow in the
right column,

but I count about a zillion AP Divs on the page. This is
definitely trouble

city. Here's why -




http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layer-overlap.asp



Open your page in FF and bump the text size up one or two
notches. You'll

see....



Also, you have this -



%26lt;p%26gt; %26amp;nbsp ;


MagicPress



The non-breaking space is not a layout tool!





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''Kaklz'' %26lt;webforumsuser@macromedia.com%26gt; wrote in message


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%26gt;
quote:





%26gt; IE sucks. The only think you are probably 'doing wrong'
is not fully

%26gt; understanding the quirks in IE and testing for them.
There's a lot of

%26gt; quirks

%26gt; and a lot of hacks to fix the various issues with IE.

%26gt;

%26gt; -Darrel

%26gt;



%26gt;

%26gt; Agreed that IE sucks, but what's all this about quirks
and hacks and such?

%26gt; Despite the fact that it sucks, a lot of people still
use it and my site

%26gt; looks

%26gt; like sh** on it.



%26gt;




Thanks, Murray, for the pointers.


quote:





Also, you have this -



%26lt;p%26gt; %26amp;nbsp ;

MagicPress



The non-breaking space is not a layout tool!





True. I'm just getting started on web design and I'm really
shaky (at best) on layout. Div tags placed on the WYSIWYG funtion
on DW is about the best I can do on that, hence the millions that
you see on my pages. I'm learning coding and I've got a basic
understanding of HTML, but tiny spatterings of everything else.

Is there a way around this (millions of Div tags) that I
missed back in Coders Kindygarten?

A good way around what? CSS is usually the answer for all
such questions!

8)



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''Kaklz'' %26lt;webforumsuser@macromedia.com%26gt; wrote in message


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%26gt; Thanks, Murray, for the pointers.

%26gt;
quote:





%26gt; Also, you have this -

%26gt;

%26gt;

%26gt;
%26lt;p%26gt; %26amp;nbs p

%26gt; ;

%26gt; MagicPress

%26gt;

%26gt; The non-breaking space is not a layout tool!

%26gt;



%26gt; True. I'm just getting started on web design and I'm
really shaky (at

%26gt; best) on

%26gt; layout. Div tags placed on the WYSIWYG funtion on DW is
about the best I

%26gt; can do

%26gt; on that, hence the millions that you see on my pages.
I'm learning coding

%26gt; and

%26gt; I've got a basic understanding of HTML, but tiny
spatterings of everything

%26gt; else.

%26gt; Is there a way around this (millions of Div tags) that I
missed back in

%26gt; Coders

%26gt; Kindygarten?


%26gt;




Thanks!

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