Browser Problems

[Collegekid19]

I've designed my site in Dreamweaver. I finally previewed my site in Mozilla looked Great! Then I previewed it on a Mac Broswer... again it looked great!! Then I previewed it in Internet Explorer and... what the heck!! it looked horrible!! How can I work out the kinks in my site so it looks good in IE, Mozilla, and on a Mac. Simple site with no multimedia. Help me please.

[AnotherDesigner]

Test the site validation using http://www.w3c.org - that should be the first port of call everytime.

Also, I use Dreamweaver and notice that my sites don't work properly in IE when I tell Dreamweaver to ensure the page is XHTML compliant. There is a simple solution to this if you are telling Dreamweaver to ensure XHTML compliancy. The process is detailed below.

Step 1 - Switch to Code View
Step 2 - Have a look at the code: line 1 should read
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>"
Step 3 - Delete line 1 of the code
Step 4 - Save the page...
Step 5 - Have a cup of coffee and relax, because look: Hey presto, deleting that line has stopped IE switching to 'quirks mode', and the site should now display properly in all browsers.


Like I said though, get your site checked using the HTML validator on http://www.w3c.org Fix any errors that show up on there, and the site should then display correctly across all browsers (hopefully... or at least the majority of browsers!)

[DreamWeaverRoxs]

Have you try going to a box with <> with a green check mark if not check for browser compatibility? You should click on Settings and choose a browser that can be compatible for your site so that the browser checker can show you errors before you post it on a Web hosting service and the error messages can be good for modifying the code before posting. Remember IE for Mac is dead and it is outdated and lacks some Web standards plus slower than Safari, Firefox, Camino, and Opera.