Suggestions and help please

[Jamie Allison]

Hi All,

A long time ago someone helped design a website for HSNSG with me and now I
decided it was time for me to take the plunge and make it strict with CSS
etc.

www.hsnsg.org.uk

I am not a professional web designer.

http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/meetus.shtml
Appears OK in Mozilla Firefox with the pictures to the side and text on the
other side but doesn't display correctly in IE.

Anyone any ideas how to make this appear as i want in IE also?

http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/dvd.shtml
I want a secure safe way to submit details through the form. Any
suggestions?

http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/photos.shtml
Doesn't validate due to me using JavaScript to open and resize a new window.
Any better ways to do this? I have removed a lot of the code and validated
it as much as I can for one of the photo gallery pages
(http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/photos/playscheme2005_02/photos.shtml) but haven't
bothered with the others yet until I decide what I'm doing with this
section.

Thanks in advance everyone

Jamie

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Hi All,

A long time ago

you posted this same message at alt.html.critique, where there is a
discussion ongoing. Please look for answers there. Thank you very much.

 

[Jamie Allison]

you posted this same message at alt.html.critique, where there is a
discussion ongoing. Please look for answers there. Thank you very much.

Thanks, i just thought there may be different people in here who could
answer the particular parts of it.

I'll keep a look out in critique.

 

[Travis Newbury]

A long time ago someone helped design a website for HSNSG with me and now I
decided it was time for me to take the plunge and make it strict with CSS
etc.

Did the site suddenly stop working?

www.hsnsg.org.uk
I am not a professional web designer.

Ok, admitting this is the first step...

http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/meetus.shtml
Appears OK in Mozilla Firefox with the pictures to the side and text on the
other side but doesn't display correctly in IE.

Since 80%-90% of your visitors will come using IE, maybe you have your
priorities backwards? Maybe you should make sure it works in IE, THEN
test the others.

Anyone any ideas how to make this appear as i want in IE also?

Code it the way IE needs you to. (albeit, it may be wrong, but that is
really moot as long as it appears correctly in the vast MAJORITY of
your visitor's browsers.)

While not the answer you probably wanted to hear, it is a reality. Why
try to make something "correct" if being "correct" will cause it to
break in the Majority of your visitors's browsers?

Just something to think about.

 

[Jamie Allison]

Did the site suddenly stop working?

No but i am hoping this will make it easier for me to do a version of the
site with high contrast etc for partially sighted people/

Ok, admitting this is the first step...


Since 80%-90% of your visitors will come using IE, maybe you have your
priorities backwards? Maybe you should make sure it works in IE, THEN
test the others.

Yes i have tried coding it for IE but still cant seem to get that one page
to work. All other pages i am happy with in IE and mozilla. This page i am
happy with in Mozilla but no matter what i try i cant seem to get it to look
the same in IE..

Code it the way IE needs you to. (albeit, it may be wrong, but that is
really moot as long as it appears correctly in the vast MAJORITY of
your visitor's browsers.)

45% of the sites users are on IE where as 40% are on mozilla or firefox. I
know IE is the majority but not by a great amout so i am wanting it to work
in IE and mozilla. All pages work in both apart from the one mentioned
above.

While not the answer you probably wanted to hear, it is a reality. Why
try to make something "correct" if being "correct" will cause it to
break in the Majority of your visitors's browsers?

Correct so that screen readers can read it as in correct pages do not
translate very well with screen readers. Although the site still does not
read well with a screen reader i believe this making the code correct is the
firsts step in this challenge?

 

[feed_sheep]

http://www.hsnsg.org.uk/meetus.shtml
Appears OK in Mozilla Firefox with the pictures to the side and text on
the
other side but doesn't display correctly in IE.

Not sure, but I think your use of <P align=justify> on the paragraphs which
have those images and then the <img> tags including align="right" or "left"
may be the problem. Try floating the images (ie style="float:right;"). I'm
not even sure how well web browsers deal with justified text, but change the
<p> to style="text-align: justify;".

David