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What's wrong with my site? (netscape users welcome)

SagaLore

SagaLore

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So I'm working on my most recent renovation of www.hawgbuster.com, and this time I'm approaching it by using CSS. Since CSS is a W3C standardized approach at web designing, I figure my site has to be fairly compatible with most browsers. Today at work I decide to install the newest Netscape 6.2 - and find out that my renovation is almost completely unviewable.

Most recent upload

Netscape users - see what I mean? If you have IE, it looks perfect.

Just before the recent upload

Was my first upload when I was first deciding on the layout. Not really much of anything was changed between the two, but for whatever reason the original upload is at least viewable although there is a few problems with the table borders and missing images.

What am I supposed to do??? I thought CSS was supposed to be the answer!
 
For one thing - don't use Frontpage. MS doesn't give a $hit about Nutscraper (and neither do I, quite frankly) - so Frontpage isn't going to make pages that look correct in both Nutscraper and IE. You might want to try coding it with Dreamweaver or something not made by MS. (or by hand)
 


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<META content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" name=GENERATOR> I think that this is your problem ^. >>

w3rd
 
Looks fine to me in NS 6.22 GT, but you should definitely add a "VALIGN=TOP" to your menu's
table cell. On some pages I had to scroll down a screen or two just to find it.
 


<< Looks fine to me in NS 6.22 GT, but you should definitely add a "VALIGN=TOP" to your menu's
table cell. On some pages I had to scroll down a screen or two just to find it. >>



Did you look at a secondary page like "Our Products?" When I've pulled it up on older versions of Netscape (and Apple machines), the menu is all screwed up, as if the browser didn't render the tables at all.

It should look like this: screenshot.
 


<< Did you look at a secondary page like "Our Products?" When I've pulled it up on older
versions of Netscape (and Apple machines), the menu is all screwed up, as if the browser
didn't render the tables at all. >>



They look perfectly fine here. However, 6.22 is the latest version of NS and has only been
around for a month or two.
 
K, thanks. Anyone on an Apple machine like to comment?

I know the site loads kinda slow, so I'm going to edit the images at some point. I'm also going to revise the menu.
 
I don't think Frontpage is the problem, because I'm not doing anything special tha requires frontpage, except using the IncludePage componenet (server side extension). If I had coded this by hand I think I may have had the same problem since that component is being used in my old site, viewable in Netscape fine.

The only thing I can think of is in the table, for whatever stupid reason, I have to keep in the CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING with the table tag even if I'm assigning them values in my style sheet - if I don't, my cell borders get whacked up.

Very fortunate for me, is that I don't think there has been a single visitor to the site that uses Netscape. All different versions of IE.

Anybody care to dabble with the source?
 


<< This is a view from Galeon:

here

Dunno how it's supposed to look regularly... >>



Than's for the screenshot.

It must be something I'm doing then, something's not right. Those black lines aren't supposed to be there, they're just the table borders and should be hidden.

My dilemma is that when I remove the CELLSPACING and CELLPADDING from the TABLE, I end up with invisible borders with a 1px width. It's weird. I don't want to assign 0 to cellspacing and cellpading because I'm doing that in the style sheet. So what am I doing wrong in the style sheet that needs the null cellspacing and cellpadding?

😕
 
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