finally finished my website...care to check it out?

[gmoniey]

After about 5 weeks of tinkering around, I have finally finish my website. I have ran it against several validators for both html and css and everything has passed. I have tested it on IE 7 (still trying to find some machines with IE5 & 6), Firefox, Safari (Windows), and Opera.

Opera had some problems with an accordion javascript and not rendering the page correctly (i.e. the accordion would expand, but you would have to switch to a different application and switch back to see the changes).

The site uses quit a bit of javascript, both synchronous and asynch, so if you have it disabled, everything will look wierd.

This is a personal website, so i dont expect much traffic, but I prefer to do things the right...so if you have any comments/suggestions, please feel free...i'm not the type to take things personally.

You can find my site at: http://www.lambandtunafish.com/ (http://www.lambandtunafish.com/)

Thanks!

[Mania]

I had an instant feeling I'd seen that template before and I was right. You did clear it up on the About page but I still feel you could have done some more modifications (even with just colour) to make it less obvious.

Btw. the header image drops out if you increase text size.

[gmoniey]

I didn't change the colors up because I like the unsleepable look (hence the reference in the about page)...I just removed the extra columns since I simply dont need them

As for the header image dropping when you increase text size..Are you referring to increasing the text size by with the browser?

I suppose that using px or pt for font size would resolve this problem?

I never thought to check what would happen if i changed the font size...thanks for pointing that out.

[gmoniey]

I just noticed that if you increase the text size several times...the whole layout goes to ****.

Would you advise sticking to strict font sizes and margins i.e. replace em with pt/px? or should I just leave things the way they are?

[gmoniey]

I realized that using explicit px for font size doesnt matter, the browser will still increase/decrease the fonts...however, I did use absolute pixel sizes for the widths, so the problem you mentioned has been fixed.

thanks!

[dtm32236]

you gotta check it out in IE6 too... the header is kinda a mess in IE6, but it still works.

Tredosoft's multiple-ie (http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) will allow you to install many versions of IE.

[gmoniey]

yea, someone else pointed me to this link in response to the same problem.


After checking this out...I am stuck wondering which versions of IE I should test and fix problems with. Eventually there is a point of limited returns on my time...so should I just focus on IE 6, or should I also include 5 & 5.5? what about IE 3 & IE4?

Same thing goes for firefox

[dtm32236]

I focus on IE6 and IE7, Firefox, and Safari...

IE 5.5 doesn't really matter, because only about 1% (or less) of the population uses it... so I don't think it's worth the time to worry about... that's my opinion. plus, if someone is still using IE5.5, they should be used to seeing broken websites.