Site looks different in older versions of IE?

Lusam52 · March 13th, 2007, 12:13 PM

Newbie web designer here - hello.

I've created a simple site in dreamweaver 8 and it looks fine in IE7, but when mates view it with IE6/firefox it looks rubbish? Fonts are TNR instead of Arial and mouseover buttons aren't there, just crappy text?

Any ideas?

Thanks

karinne · March 13th, 2007, 12:21 PM

We need a link. We're not mind readers. if you don't have it hosted yet, put in on a free host (there's tones out there ... freewebs.com is a pretty decent one) for testing purposes.

The other thing you need to know is that you should code your site with Firefox in mind and then hack for IE.

Don't use IE as your primary testing browser

Lusam52 · March 13th, 2007, 12:26 PM

sorry, here's the link http://tennysonleague.110mb.com/

Thanks

karinne · March 13th, 2007, 12:35 PM

Looks fine to me ... Win2000 / IE6 and FF

The code is terrible tho ... you don't have <html> or <body> tags in there.

To avoid problems with browsers not displaying your site properly when DW does, do yourself a favor and learn HTML. Get away from the design view of dreamweaver and stick the code view and hand-code your site.

The basic HTML/XHTML document should look like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">

<head>
    <title>Some title</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

Lusam52 · March 13th, 2007, 12:38 PM

Ok, thanks for the advice. Not sure why he can't view it properly though

Oh well.

karinne · March 13th, 2007, 12:42 PM

Well ... maybe the fact that you don't have <html> and <body> tags? They're probably sending IE into what-the-heck-do-i-do-with-this mode.

JacobHaug · March 13th, 2007, 06:06 PM

hahaha...lol, you defiantly need some work on your code, but you are in the right place!!

Lchad · March 13th, 2007, 07:00 PM

Dreamweaver puts html and body tags in automatically so they must have been deleted.

Maybe their browser needs refreshing!

Lusam52 · March 14th, 2007, 03:56 AM

Hi,

thanks for all the advice.

I'll look into it further. The code problems doesn't explain why I can see it ok though? I use IE7 under Vistya OS, my mate uses IE6 under XP. Yet Firefox on my machine has the same problems as his?

Maybe i'll start again

Thanks again

Phil (lusam52)