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neilcg1
Posted: 20 January 2009 04:51 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Hi All

I am a complete newbie.

I have managed to teach myself how to build a website using Frontpage, but have come across what appears to be a common problem. My web site works fine in IE but not Firefox. I have looked extensively for the solution, whilst I have found stacks of info, I just can’t find the specifics I need to solve my problem.

I also want to build another website and the best advise appears to be build it in Firefox using the web development tool first and then fix for IE.

If anyone could help I would be most grateful.

Firstly how do I fix my current web site; http://www.whattolay.com

Secondly can you direct me to where I find the Firefox web development tool to build my new website.

Sorry these are probably very simplistic things.

Many thanks in advance

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PS-Productions
Posted: 23 January 2009 12:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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you shall outsource the table-based design. use modern styles by using <div>-based design. try to understand what CSS can do for you and you will see that its not difficult ;-)
i think it does not make much sense to continue working with that table-monster! in addition: i never heard of a “firefox web development tool” :-)

give it a try: http://www.w3schools.com/ and your page will fit to firefox, i promise.

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Terry_Wilcher
Posted: 23 February 2009 06:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Design your site to suit FF, then add bug fixes for IE… heaps easier

closest thing to Firefox web development tool

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Terry

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X96 Web Design
Posted: 24 February 2009 12:41 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Same as everyone else said - Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and basically every other browser except IE will display your site correctly if you code it right. IE has it’s own annoying bugs and layout issues…

And you can’t really fix things if you’re using Frontpage, it’s built by Microsoft (I think), so it’ll code to IE standards, not for Firefox, etc.

I second the recommendation for w3schools.com, I use it for reference all the time, and I find it very helpful.

And if you are stuck, try using a free css template from a free template site, they work in Firefox and IE, and look cool. I’d suggest http://www.freecsstemplates.org or http://www.freecsstemplates.com or http://x96webdesign.tech.officelive.com/developers/templates.html

Hope that helps!

// X96 WD

(PS >> You may want to find an alternative design, or split up the text on the homepage at least, the design isn’t that attractive. No Offense…)

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sandblocks
Posted: 07 March 2009 07:38 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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On of the most important things you can do when getting started with standards-based web design is start with a good DocType. If you don’t do this, different browsers will do their best in different ways to interpret your HTML, but they will fall short.

I would recommend coding in XHTML with this as your starting point:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” >
<head>
  <title>My Title</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

While IE6 (and just about every other browser) will render certain things incorrectly, starting with a valid DocType that corresponds correctly to the code you’re using will keep things as tight as possible between browsers.

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