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[CnB]

This is a quick site i made myself, yeah i know unproffesional for the thing i do.

But have a look Aeon Investing
Firefox seems to display it without a problem, however IE does not it cuts of several things.
Any ideas how to fix this.

And as for the look its a temp design untill i find somebody who can make me a decent design.

Thanks

[Xav]

It's not too much trouble to make your own decent design, CnB. Anyway, IE 7 and Firefox 2 account for around 97% of users, so if it works in these two, you should be OK. However, testing the site in [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://users.edpnet.be/adr3nal1n/index_english.htm - W3C Markup Validator shows over 80 HTML errors. Try making your code as clean as possible, and maybe it will help.

[phpforfun]

I have the same problem..

http://ffe.no-ip.org/AnalyzeThatHost
firefox shows the search and support menu fine, ie drops it ont he right hand side

[CnB]

thats the last time i used publisher for that.
I hardly added any code myself so amazing it has so many errors.

I know its not to much trouble.
Its just that i have very little time to focus on it, and all in all i think i am better of paying somebody a bit for this and have something decent then making myself a average one.

[Xav]

You used Publisher? Ah, that's where the problem is. You see, Publisher isn't designed to create web pages - your code is more likely to be correct than Publisher's!

Try creating your page from scratch using Microsoft's Visual Web Developer, available from Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Unlike Publisher, VWD actually knows how to create web pages - it will simplify the process immensely - and it even has HTML spell-checking, debugging, code/visual views and easy JavaScript. It's well worth a try, and will create pages that work across all browsers. It's much more satisfying than just paying someone - and what's more, it's fun, too.

[CnB]

Xav said:

You used Publisher? Ah, that's where the problem is. You see, Publisher isn't designed to create web pages - your code is more likely to be correct than Publisher's!

Try creating your page from scratch using Microsoft's Visual Web Developer, available from Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Unlike Publisher, VWD actually knows how to create web pages - it will simplify the process immensely - and it even has HTML spell-checking, debugging, code/visual views and easy JavaScript. It's well worth a try, and will create pages that work across all browsers. It's much more satisfying than just paying someone - and what's more, it's fun, too.

Aha that explains a lot.
Thanks for the tip, your right it is more fun doing it yourself.
I will give it another try with VWD, i just installed Dreamweaver but i think i am going to give it a try with VWD see how that turns out.
Because i am not sure if dreamweaver is all that great.

[Xav]

Dreamweaver seems to receive a lot of credit - but in my experience, VWD is even better - and free, too. Make sure you do it properly, though - use CSS styles, all that jazz. VWD makes it incredibly easy to manage it all, if you just spend a bit of time learning how it works.

Good luck with the website!

Xav :)

[Sionofdarkness]

I always associate web development and Microsoft with Frontpage, which is not that good. However, I am not experienced at all with Visual Web Developer, which apparently is much better.

[WingedPanther]

You may want to check your design in Kompozer as well. It's based off the Firefox engine. I also use the Firebug, Web Developer, and Html Validator add-ons in Firefox to help me with some of the more "interesting" aspects of development.

[Xav]

VWD has a few quirks but it's excellent and free. :)