Enter the bowels of Internet Ex-plorer

[Lemur]

Why this dreaded web browser is still in existence is beyond me. IE has been nothing but trouble since I began web designing. I don't know much html coding or java script so granted it makes things a bit difficult to correct at times but it is nice when things make some sense. Well my problem with the site is this:

It works perfectly in every mozilla based browser on both Mac and PC but when I look at it in IE I encounter some nasty visual disturbances. The site was built on a mac with tables imported from fireworks into Adobe Go-Live CS and in certain places the background layer overlaps the graphic that is supposed to be in front of it but only when viewed in IE. The thing that confuses me even more is that another page with partly the same graphics used on it shows up as it should in the apparently defective section. All this might make more sense if you saw the pages. (If anyone feels charitable and wants to give me a hand with this I could always mail you the pages to view.) I have been pulling my hair out for a good week on this one and there just doesn't seem to be any reason for the problem. I REALLY don't want to have to dumb down my design for internet explorer and I don't know enough to use CSS. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA,

- Lemur

[Till]

I think with valid XHTML it has been less difficult to create designs that work among all browsers. The only sidekick is IE on a mac and the very old Netscape Navigator 4.x (which hopefully no one uses anymore).

From my experience IE on the PC has been always the easiest of all browsers to deal with since it virtually lets you do everything. With a lot of vendor-specific tags and functions.

How much experience coding do you have and what's your favorite browser?

Regarding CSS, we have a bunch of nice tutorials here:
http://www.htmlcenter.com/tutorials/index.cfm/css/

Give it a try. It's not just hip, but also very very convenient (for the lazy coders that we all are).

Best,
Till

[Allen]

editor = never 100% code
hand coding + good coder = always 100% code

[Lemur]

Thanks Till,

I'll check out the CSS link, that should be helpful. I have only a basic knowledge of html coding and I don't even know what xml is, anything advanced and I'm lost. My favourite browsers are firefox and Safari. You may be right about IE tho, it could just be the Mac version that I have reason to be so annoyed with. I should have more of a look on a PC at the site. Anyway I will go and try to learn the ins and outs of CSS. Thanks again,

- Lemur

[Allen]

BTW -- today at work i reviewed pages which are VALID xhtml and IE mac blows them up -- but safari and fx look great.

typical ie -- if you screw up your code it works, if you do things by the book, looks like crap

keep up the hard work and dont give up

[Fig]

I agree with you all - 100% hand coding is great.

I use it on my site. If you ever have a spare weekend, spend some time looking on the net & learning some basic - intermediate HTML - it works wonders. I did that, then moved on to JavaScript and am now getting OK at Perl.

I stuck with it... check my site to see the results... My Site