Firefox layout difference in Frontpage Page

[Smallfishfry]

Hello

Thankyou for looking at my problem. With www.e-aquarium.com.au the text is being butted up flush with the left hand edge of the browser while there is a gap when viewed in IE. Can anyone suggest why this might be?

[Smallfishfry]

Sorry

I should have added that I dont think Firefox is recognising the cell spacing atribute set for the tables in frontpage, it is as though the attribute is=0. How would I best code this differentyl

[drhowarddrfine]

You will never get IE to try and perform like a modern browser, such as Firefox, without a proper doctype. See my link below. Use html 4.01 strict. Then validate your html and css for any errors to fix and you especially have a number of CSS errors to fix that affect this.

FrontPage leans toward IE when it produces code. That code is, typically, awful. And IE is worst browser on the planet. So putting that altogether shows why professinal coders don't use FrontPage.

In any case, do what I said above and see where we stand.

[abz]

agrees with above

Also, for future project, you may want to keep in mind that using tables to layout a page into visuals is a bad idea. You are misdirecting the browser to think that your content is something it is not. Using divisions <div> in your page and then styling with CSS will make your page much more accessible to users, search engines, not to mention making it easier to update, and read.

http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

[Smallfishfry]

Hello and thankyou both for your excellent improvements

I have made some changes to my homepage and hope to follow suit with the rest later.

I have stopped using tables as layout tools. I need to learn a lot more about <div> tags to replace my 2 colum table layouts with div layout.

I got down to 15 errors using the doctype standard of 4.01 transitional. A lot of the remaining errors are from the frontpage navigation bar.

The ony outstanding visual browser difference now is firefox underlines the links in the navigation bar.

Having now become aware of these standards I am surprised to read that google doesnt take the doctype and it's relavency to the page into account with its ranking.