This is Interesting: Free Magazines for Graphics designers and webmasters
Home > Archive > Webmaster forum > April 2006 > pages on website not showing in IE but fone in Firefox
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
pages on website not showing in IE but fone in Firefox
|
|
|
| I need some help with the website that I have built (and am still
working on). Some pages -ones that have images and some text) do not
show at all in Internet Explorer but show up fine in Mozilla Firefox!
Others are fine on both. I have no idea why and am close to pulling my
hair out... The site URL is www.archaeopteryx-online.nl - it's a dutch
(sorry if you can't read the text!) veterinary students' organisation
dedicated to birds and exotic animals. The site is a simple HTML site
made using MS Word 2003 (and Dreamweaver 8, initially).
The problems concern the pages that are hyperlinked in the 'Foto's'
section: try them in Firefox, then take al look using IE...
I really hope that there is anyone here with suggestions.
Thanks for watching!
Job.
| |
| Beauregard T. Shagnasty 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
| JobSt wrote:
> .. The site is a simple HTML site made using MS Word 2003 ...
There are no 'simple' sites made using MS Word, possibly the third worst
HTML generator on the planet.
4. Microsoft FrontPage
3. Microsoft Word
2. Microsoft Excel
1. Microsoft Publisher
IMO, you need to start over. First and foremost, get rid of that framing
nonsense for your content. Find a good two-column CSS template and start
fresh. Your site looks as if it could be simple enough to write with a
simple text editor.
I'll stop there. :-)
--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
| |
| Barbara de Zoete 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
| On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:32:41 +0200, JobSt <jstumpel@hotmail.com> wrote:
<URL:http://www.archaeopteryx-online.nl/>
> I need some help with the website that I have built (and am still
> working on). Some pages -ones that have images and some text) do not
> show at all in Internet Explorer but show up fine in Mozilla Firefox!
> Others are fine on both.
It would have helped if you had pointed to pages which have this specific
behaviour. I don't want to have to hunt for them.
> The site is a simple HTML site
> made using MS Word 2003 (and Dreamweaver 8, initially).
Hmm. This is messy coding and inaccessable structure with all those frames
and iframes in iframes (and not too good design either, getting a
horizontal scroll bar at 1024px wide viewport for example). The bad coding
is possably, no, probably what causes this undesired behaviour.
> I really hope that there is anyone here with suggestions.
Toss out Word. Don't use that for publishing anything on the web (besides
a Word document if you have no alternative). And better not use
Dreamweaver either, that is until you have some knowledge on HTML and CSS.
Dreamweaver can do you a good job, if you are specific in what you want it
to do. Otherwise it doesn't help you one bit.
--
______PretLetters:
| weblog | http://www.pretletters.net/weblog/weblog.html |
| webontwerp | http://www.pretletters.net/html/webontwerp.html |
|zweefvliegen | http://www.pretletters.net/html/vliegen.html |
| |
|
| Thanks!
> It would have helped if you had pointed to pages which have this specific
> behaviour. I don't want to have to hunt for them.
I did... "The problems concern the pages that are hyperlinked in the
'Foto's'
section: try them in Firefox, then take al look using IE..."
Would FrontPage be any good for building this site?
| |
| Barbara de Zoete 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
| On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:46:34 +0200, JobSt <jstumpel@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
>
> I did... "The problems concern the pages that are hyperlinked in the
> 'Foto's'
> section:
I don't see that section. Must be an image without using a value for the
alt attribute?
> Would FrontPage be any good for building this site?
No. Not unless you learn about HTML and CSS first. And if you know HTML
and CSS, there is no need for FP or DW or any one of those programs (not
for a smaller site that is, and whithout some more complicated server-side
stuff for example). A good text editor with colour coding and maybe a
prepocessor will do the job very nicely.
Any program that claims to be WYSIWYG, lies. There is no WYSIWYG (as you
notices with the difference in rendering in FF and IE).
Problem is that you have no idea what this sort of programs do and don't
do. Unless you have some basic knowledge on markup and styles, you won't
be able to correct problems that occure effectively. Meaning that it is
very likely you correct one problem by creating the next.
--
______PretLetters:
| weblog | http://www.pretletters.net/weblog/weblog.html |
| webontwerp | http://www.pretletters.net/html/webontwerp.html |
|zweefvliegen | http://www.pretletters.net/html/vliegen.html |
| |
|
| All right...sounds like there's plenty to do for me then.
The misbehaving files are on http://www.archaeopteryx-online.nl/ -->
click "foto's" in the left frame and then click one of the pictograms
that show up.
Thanks again.
| |
|
|
| David Cary Hart 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
| | |
| Jerry Stuckle 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
| JobSt wrote:
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
> I did... "The problems concern the pages that are hyperlinked in the
> 'Foto's'
> section: try them in Firefox, then take al look using IE..."
>
> Would FrontPage be any good for building this site?
>
Frontpage is only slightly better than Word.
There are several problems with this. First of all, one of your pages has two
<body> statements. I can't tell which one, because of another problem - using
the javascript like you have, every page has the same name. It's impossible to
bookmark a certain page. You also don't make very good use of screen sizes; my
window is much larger than the area you're displaying. The result is a lot of
white space to the right and below your info, but I still have to use scroll bars.
You don't need to throw everything out and start over - but it does need a
complete rework.
You're best choice is to learn HTML and CSS yourself. It really isn't that
complicated, and you don't have any fancy coding on the site, so it wouldn't be
hard. Otherwise, I'd suggest you hire someone to do it for you.
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
==================
| |
| Jim Moe 2006-04-30, 7:02 pm |
| JobSt wrote:
>
> I really hope that there is anyone here with suggestions.
>
As others have mentioned, the code is pretty ghastly.
Also, look at your site with images disabled. You will see why adding an
"alt," "width" and "height" attributes to images is a good plan.
--
jmm (hyphen) list (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com
(Remove .AXSPAMGN for email)
|
|
|
| | Copyright 2003 - 2008 forum4designers.com Software forum Computer Hardware reviews |
|