Hello everyone.

New to this forum and completely new to website/webpage building. I had to build a site myself due to budgetary constraints.

Until 4 days ago I had no clue what Dreamweaver was. I borrowed a friend's Macbook with DW in it and armed with trial and error as speed reading web resources, I managed somehow to put up a (sort of) functioning site into a domain I bought a few weeks ago. The site you see is taken from one of the standard DW CS3 themed template library and tweaked it to the way i have it now.

It loads slow, but it works, and I can see it just fine on Safari (Mac) Opera (Mac) Firefox (Mac & PC) BUT , when I open it on Internet explorer, the page looks wierd. Its like the canvass underneath the site I built (if this makes sense) is bigger and out of line with the top graphic and appears separated from the rest of the site.

Right now I haven't even figured out how I am goin to put pictures in the text section or why the site has no www when I enter it into the url field.. but it sort of works..

My problem as I said is that I opened the Dreamweaver application for the first time ever 4 or 5 days ago. I had no clue what i was doing save for cut and paste, tweak and change and followed my instincts till I got a template resembling what I wanted. Then I basically replicated it over the many layers and linked it all up.

I really need help. Because I didn't consciously know what I was doing, I therefore have no clue where I might have went wrong, or why it all went wrong with the sites viewing in I.E as described.

Can someone please tell me what it is I have done wrong, or where in the source that I screwed up and how do I fix this problem. Any advice, or if someone can point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thank you all in advance. Also thanks to my wife lorraine who made the graphics for me!

The site can be found at http://www.basaga.com.

Thanks guys.


Regards,

BG

Our online validator reports a few markup errors, but they don't look like anything that would trip up MSIE. And your doctype triggers MSIE's standards mode.

The only thing I noticed is that increasing the minimum font size will force the horizontal navigation menu wider, which causes some of the background color to show behind the top banner image.

Someone with access to MSIE will have to look into this one.

Hey there.

Thanks for looking it over. This makes sense and I will see if I can rectify this. Embarassed to say I looked at the link for Marked up error and I still don't get it

Regardless I will try your suggestion now!!!

Thank you very much. Truly appreciate the pointer.

Have a great day.

You're using nonstandard markup. The standard approach is to use CSS for presentation like this.

The name attribute cannot be blank. In this case, your best bet is to just remove the name="" attribute.

All images should have alternative text. Since this image is just an image of text, the text itself should be in the alt attribute: alt="Home"

See also Use of ALT texts in IMGs.

Hello again Darin.

Thanks for the additional info. The errors you gave me are undoubtedly useful, but (I don't mean any offence by this) I have no clue what they mean! Wasn't kidding when I said I know nuts about this.

Anyway, your prompt assistance has really made me wanna get it right - so back to trial and error, I remade the templates and saved and checked with all browsers step-by-step... And guess what?? I am having some success to get it all to sort of show up in a presentable fashion. Its now 936pm here and I started at 12.40 this afternoon. For all your help I owe it to you to make an effort on my part!!

So I will let you know when it gets up there. Maybe another hour

Thanks again.

BG

Please see the FAQ entries Where can I learn about HTML? and Where can I learn about CSS?

Hi Darin.

Thanks for the tip. I will DEFINITELY read up on HTML soon. For now I am happy I got the site template out, working so far in all 4 browsers I tested on.

Next step,... read the link you posted! Hopefully I'll start to understand what I did.

Take care man.

BG