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Lepard

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I have been working on this design for a while now and
everything is going by perfectly. I uploaded the sites
and using FireFox they all show up correctly.

But my problem lies in that the site in IE looks horrible.

Here is a link to the site. Mind you that everything works
except for the "Home" link as its pointing to "index.html" and
not "index2.html". I did this purposely.

http://www.romanpc.com/index2.html

I made sure they were all W3C validated as well. And that
yielded no results.

Can someone please help me?
 
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George P Burdell

Lifer
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your problem is specific to IE5, the site seems fine with IE5.5 and IE6. google for IE5 bugs, might find something useful
 
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Lepard

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Im using WinXP SP2, with all the updates from Windows Update applied.

IE version 6.0.2900.2180
 
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Shawn

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Some of the links show up ok in IE6 and some don't. But yea, they all look fine in FF.
 
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rmrf

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so this is how people advertise their businesses these days.....
 
mobobuff

mobobuff

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Your Website In 4 Browsers

Versions Used:
Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
K-Meleon: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9
Maxthon: 1.3.3 (Build 50)

I didn't notice any major differences, what I did note was...

- The top and bottom dark blue cells are slightly thicker in the IE based browsers.

That's it. Hope that helped.
 
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Lepard

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Originally posted by: rmrf
so this is how people advertise their businesses these days.....
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i am not advertising.
if you go to the main page (http://www.romanpc.com)
you will see that it is not even open yet.

also, why would i advertise a local small computer
repair business on the anandtech forums?
 
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rmrf

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Originally posted by: Lepard
Originally posted by: rmrf
so this is how people advertise their businesses these days.....
Click to expand...

i am not advertising.
if you go to the main page (http://www.romanpc.com)
you will see that it is not even open yet.

also, why would i advertise a local small computer
repair business on the anandtech forums?
Click to expand...

I was j/k man. It's 4 f'ing 30 in the morning. Can't be serious all the time. :p
 
mobobuff

mobobuff

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I just noticed that your Custom PCs page doesn't look right with IE. Horizontal flow is horribly misplaced. I'd look through your code to find what IE doesn't like, but I'm tired. And like someone else said, 90% of your customers are going to be using IE, so don't bust your butt over trying to make it compatible with Firefox. Just work on making it look the way you want in IE and if it looks a bit off in Firefox, that's too bad.
 
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Lepard

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Originally posted by: rmrf

I was j/k man. It's 4 f'ing 30 in the morning. Can't be serious all the time. :p
Click to expand...

Oh ok. No harm no foul.

Originally posted by: dug777

only the second was a bit dodge (paragraphing was not aligned)..remember 90% of your customers will be using IE ;)
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I know i know. that's why im wondering what's going on
with the IE engine.
 

Screw IE 5. Just don't even support it. It's CSS support is horrible. Why support a 7-year-old browser?
 

You might want to set the right margin on your content div to a negative value in CSS. IE looks like it's dropping the stuff that floats left down below the nav entity. Common bug in IE.

I had the same problem with the site I am working on and the fix looked like:

.content {
float: left;
width: 700px;
margin-right: -700px; /* ie hack */
padding: 1em;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
}
 
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jjones

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The home page (index2) and about us page look fine, the other pages lose the right side margin way over to the right. IE 6.00.2900. Haven't looked at teh code but it's probably something simple that's borked.
 
hdeck

hdeck

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are you using css? if so, it could be an issue with the box model but i don't know.
 
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Lepard

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Originally posted by: dwell
You might want to set the right margin on your content div to a negative value in CSS. IE looks like it's dropping the stuff that floats left down below the nav entity. Common bug in IE.

I had the same problem with the site I am working on and the fix looked like:

.content {
float: left;
width: 700px;
margin-right: -700px; /* ie hack */
padding: 1em;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
}
Click to expand...

tried adding that but it looks worse. Here's the code from the CSS
that deals with the content:

/* +++ Start Of Content Section +++ */

#content {
margin:0 0 0 20%; padding:0.8em; border-left:1px solid #294D69;
}

#content img {
float:left; border-style:none;}

q {
display:block; margin:0; padding:0.4em 20% 0.6em 20%; color:#999999; font-size:120%;
text-align:center; height:3em;}

q:before, q:after {
content:"";}

#content h1 {margin:0; padding:0.1em; text-indent:2.5em;}
 
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