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Red Ripple

May 29 2007, 08:23 AM

Hi everyone/anyone!

I have some similar problems to another person on here with the latest Internet Explorer - it completely mashes up my website.. and I don't know how to fix it. I displays just fine on Firefox and earlier IE versions - both on PC and Mac platforms. I'm new to web design - have taught myself Go Live and produced the site on a Mac. A programmer friend thinks that Go Live is the problem - as a drag and drop type of web program. Any thoughts as to how I can get it to view accurately in IE 7 - without doing a complete rebuild ? I would be eternally greatful! Please see www.redripple.com.au

Thanks !
Red Ripple

Brian Chandler

May 29 2007, 09:05 AM

You have everything specified in absolute pixels. This pretty much guarantees that on the computer on which you designed, with your settings for font size etc., it looks just how you want. Unfortunately, elsewhere it looks a complete mess.

There is no way to "correct" something like this. I would throw it away and start again.

Peter1968

May 29 2007, 04:03 PM

Errors:

CODE

Result: 0 errors / 65 warnings

line 6 column 2 - Warning: <meta> attribute "Ê/" lacks value
line 49 column 48 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 50 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 53 column 45 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 55 column 43 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 57 column 43 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 59 column 43 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 61 column 43 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 63 column 43 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 69 column 58 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 70 column 30 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 77 column 33 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 82 column 33 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 87 column 33 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 92 column 33 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 97 column 33 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 98 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 101 column 47 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 103 column 34 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 104 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 107 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 108 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 109 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 110 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 111 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 112 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 113 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 114 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 115 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 116 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 117 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 118 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 119 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 120 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 121 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 122 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 123 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 124 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 125 column 31 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 126 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 127 column 32 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 128 column 30 - Warning: <spacer> is not approved by W3C
line 171 column 5 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 205 column 3 - Warning: replacing by 
line 205 column 3 - Warning: inserting implicit 
line 10 column 3 - Warning: <link> inserting "type" attribute
line 47 column 3 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 48 column 4 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 52 column 4 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 72 column 4 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 100 column 4 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 106 column 4 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 46 column 4 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 132 column 90 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 138 column 4 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 158 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 159 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 160 column 53 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 160 column 9 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 160 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 175 column 3 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 186 column 3 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 191 column 77 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 195 column 141 - Warning: trimming empty 
line 206 column 3 - Warning: trimming empty 
Info: Doctype given is "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
Info: Document content looks like HTML Proprietary

At 1024x768 (which is about what 80% of the WWW surf at) I get major horizontal scrolling in Firefox 2.0.0.3.

You use CSS yet you use things like <spacer> and .

http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ 40 fluid layouts for you to have a look at and use.

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