formatting?

[Guest]

I am having some problems with people coming to see my site and it seems to
be not working properly. I know that the hover buttons may not be able to be
seen on some computers but I can not figure out what is causing people to
have other formating issues. Is there a way to check for formating issue on
other browsers without have to have those browsers. Any ideas?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Please post a URL. Otherwise we can't see what actually could be the
problem.

Hope tihs helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Different browsers display HTML differently, and reside on machines with
different screen resolutions, and can be displayed in browser windows of
various sizes. Making HTML look more or less the same in different browsers
is a daunting task, and one of the tasks which occupies much of developers'
time. Your best bet is to figure out what browsers you want to target, and
find out what works in each one. Get a copy of each browser you want to
target.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Neither a follower
nor a lender be.

 

[Guest]

www.homelandcouncil.org

Please post a URL. Otherwise we can't see what actually could be the
problem.

Hope tihs helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

You may need to redesign a lot. Your page uses a lot of VML (Vector Markup
Language) to draw boxes and areas and things of that sort. The problem is,
VML is not widely supported by non-IE browsers. FP should have this actually
turned off by default through the authoring options. This is not something
that FP can just switch to doing it without VML, you'll have to remove it
manually and come up with a different way, usually involving lots of tables.

Definitely try an alternative to the hover buttons as well. Most users who
have bought a new computer within the last year or two will be unable to see
them unless they explicitely download the Java virtual machine, which isn't
as big a portion of internet users as it was 4 years ago or so. The hover
buttons were originally created to do nice image rollover effects at a time
when dynamic html (DHMTL) support was spotty and in it's infancy. Nowadays
there are lots of free scripts and tools that can create image swap
rollovers and FP has this built into the DHTML features as well.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage