Website OK in IE not so good in Firefox?

[Seinman]

My website looks fine in IE but I just noticed testing it in Firefox that
the table borders do not display correctly and that the photo component is
too wide. All created in FP2003 Any ideas?

http://www.newyorktrumpetcompany.com/

TIA

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

Photogallery doesn't work well in FF. You may want to look into using a third-party gallery like JAlbum. You could try making the big images smaller, but don't think thats gonna help much.

Also...your site looks great except it's gonna cause anyone viewing it at 800x600 to have to scroll left/right. You've designed for an approx 900px wide viewport.

 

[Seinman]

in message
Photogallery doesn't work well in FF. You may want to look into using a
third-party gallery like JAlbum. You >could try making the big images
smaller, but don't think thats gonna help much.

Also...your site looks great except it's gonna cause anyone viewing it at
800x600 to have to scroll left/right. >You've designed for an approx 900px
wide viewport.

Thanks for your reply. Like many sites nowadays I have designed it around
1024 resolution.

Anyone have any ideas why the table borders do not work properly?

 

[Murray]

You need to give units to the widths in the inline styles. IE guesses that
you mean pixels instead of yards, but FF doesn't.

<td width="100" height="1" align="center" background="greymenucell.jpg"
bordercolor="#808080" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1;
border-right: 1px solid #808080; border-bottom-style:solid;
border-bottom-width:1; border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:1">

 

[Seinman]

You need to give units to the widths in the inline styles. IE guesses
that
you mean pixels instead of yards, but FF doesn't.

<td width="100" height="1" align="center" background="greymenucell.jpg"
bordercolor="#808080" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width:
1; border-right: 1px solid #808080; border-bottom-style:solid;
border-bottom-width:1; border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:1">
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Thanks! How do I do that? Also, is that what makes the borders of some of
the cells not display in FF?

 

[Murray]

Yes. FF has no idea how to interpret a unit-less number.

You would need to edit the code manually, I guess, to change every instance
of this -

border-bottom-width:1; border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:1">

to this -

border-bottom-width:1px; border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:1px">

 

[Scruff]

I opened my SBC site in firefox and noticed the same thing. The design photo
gallery is a mess.
Say again how that can be fixed?
Thanks, Murray!

 

[Murray]

Beats me - I can't see the code. 8)

 

[Scruff]

Beats me - I can't see the code. 8)

http://www.scrapbookcentralcincy.com/designfeature.htm> --

 

[Murray]

Hmm - well, the only thing I see in FF is that you have not controlled the
color of your body text, which causes it to display bright green for me,
e.g., this content -


As you walk around the store, you will notice the many 'sample'
pages decorating our walls. These magnificent designs were created by our
group of contributing designers. The artists use their own photos and create
pages using materials that can be found throughout the store. The goal is
not only to highlight the work of these talented individuals, but to also
give you plenty of creative fodder for your own scrapbook pages.



Click on the pictures of our Design Team Members
to view each designers personal page and layouts.

and the picture captions.

But everything else looks fine to me, on that page, at least.

This is with FF1/PC.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

I get that text in black New Times (I think).

Galleries look fine here too, except they'd probably be too wide for anyone viewing at 800.

I'm surprised that the FP slide viewer gallery works ok...I've had problems with them on FF before, but these seem to be working - I take that back..they only are working with there are only a few previews on top row.

 

[Murray]

I have FF specifically set to use a default color of green when no color has
been specified otherwise. This is just because not all browsers use black
as a default. I also have it set to use pink for a default page background
color to alert me when I forget to specify either. It's a "me" thing,
doncha know?

That whole gallery thing is too wide, but it works OK for me....

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Murray
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in message I get that text in black New Times (I think).

Galleries look fine here too, except they'd probably be too wide for anyone
viewing at 800.

I'm surprised that the FP slide viewer gallery works ok...I've had problems
with them on FF before, but these seem to be working - I take that
back..they only are working with there are only a few previews on top row.

 

[Scruff]

Thanks, I'll look in to that green. When I look at it in FF the slide show
scrolls way off the page stage right.

 

[Scruff]

Right, and in IE it looks great. I guess it's a ff thing rather than a IE
thing.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

It may be a FP thing with galleries.

You may want to try JAlbum or the SwishPix thing that Jim was talking about. I've been messing with SwishPix this morning..pretty cool. JAlbum is free though.

 

[Scruff]

I'll do that. Any Idea which one mimics the FP slide show the closest? I
need it contained within a single page. They both probably do, I just need
to check it out! lol

in message It may be a FP thing with galleries.

You may want to try JAlbum or the SwishPix thing that Jim was talking about.
I've been messing with SwishPix this morning..pretty cool. JAlbum is free
though.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

I've had the more experience with JAlbum, since I just found out about SwishPix today.

JAlbum has many "skins" created by users that are available to you. Everything is open source so it's free. You can also manipulate the look upon album generation and then also do more customization after you have IMPORTED it into FP.

I've done a couple that very closely match the 'main' web's look. Takes a little trial and error to make things match...or you can just slam-bam one with one of the skins.

If ya need more help lemme know.

You can read a review of SwishPix at http://www.jimcoaddins.com and there's a link there to download a trial version. In some ways SwishPix may be easier, but maybe not give as much flexibility once the album is generated since it creates a flash .swf file. Keep in mind I'm still messing with SP.

 

[Funny French Fry]

My sites always look a mess too. I design them in 800X600 resolution. How
do you design them in 1024?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Designing for 1024, assumes that users will view the site in the browser at full screen, which may
not be the case.

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[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

You can design a collapsing table design (which the OP's is not), so it will work from 750 -1024 it takes a little figuring.