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Warped view of my website

Stafs

2006-08-30, 6:31 pm

Hi

Can anyone help. I have a website www.racing-edge.co.uk that uses layers.
The majority of users can see it fine - a couple of users go into the site
and the settings are all messed up.

The title is split onto 2 lines and the font is changed to a basic one and
font size is different. The introduce a friend box on the bottom left moves
up so it is over the menu on the left and the green bar at the top is also
over text.

One of the users is someone I know - I have checked all of their internet
settings, theer browser version (IE6), XP SP2 and it is all the same as my
own, yet they have these changes.

What is weird is that if they view another site it is fine - so it must be
something I am doing wrong.

Has anyone come across something similar? Is there some code I need to put
in at the begining to define some viewing settings or something?

Please help........!

Glen

Andrew Murray

2006-08-30, 10:26 pm

The user must have the fonts you're using on your site installed on their
system.

The font I see looks like Times Roman (Italics) - is that what you were
using? Times Roman is probably the most standard font that "everyone" will
have. There are about half a dozen that seem to be considered "web safe" eg
arial, verdana, trebuchet, times roman, courier.

Keep in mind there are other PC operating systems like MacOS and Linux. The
availability of fonts may differ for these.

However I don't see what your problem is, it looks fine on my PC (Windows XP
Pro, SP2 IE6) - the line is not split into two etc

The objects moving about is caused by the fact you're using layers &
absolute positioning. If you're not familiar with how to use layers
properly, you can run into problems such as these. I've never used layers
so can't give you much advice on fixing the problem.

My advice would be to do the site using tables as your layout structure.

"Stafs" <Stafs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5DBAE280-CB09-4D12-A881-D15203F2C44D@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> Can anyone help. I have a website www.racing-edge.co.uk that uses layers.
> The majority of users can see it fine - a couple of users go into the site
> and the settings are all messed up.
>
> The title is split onto 2 lines and the font is changed to a basic one and
> font size is different. The introduce a friend box on the bottom left
> moves
> up so it is over the menu on the left and the green bar at the top is also
> over text.
>
> One of the users is someone I know - I have checked all of their internet
> settings, theer browser version (IE6), XP SP2 and it is all the same as my
> own, yet they have these changes.
>
> What is weird is that if they view another site it is fine - so it must be
> something I am doing wrong.
>
> Has anyone come across something similar? Is there some code I need to put
> in at the begining to define some viewing settings or something?
>
> Please help........!
>
> Glen