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fflan513
October 15th, 2002, 03:45 PM
Would one of you experts please look at this website and tell me why the copyright data is skewed in a Netscae browser but looks just fine in IE 6.0? Tell me what I can do to correct this, I would certainly appreciate any help you can give. I love Virtual DR., you guys are the greatest. Thanks in advance.

http://gridironking.home.attbi.com/wsb/html/all_the_kings_men.html
Report_2
October 15th, 2002, 05:13 PM
I see no reason why it would be a problem with Netscape but you could try changing the font or font size for the copyright.

Additionally you may need to tell Netscape what it is by adding the following at the beginning of your document:
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

HTH
putasolutions
October 15th, 2002, 06:54 PM
Purely for checking out another site, I ran your first page through netmechanic (http://www.netmechanic.com) HTML Toolbox, a website analysis site.

This was the result (http://results.netmechanic.com/aps5/toolbox/summary.cgi?f=287/1838/53-03168&s=NetMechanic&fv=5&ft=3)

I'll be honest, I have very little idea about designing for netscape, though I wouldn't worry too much about te design for NS3, because I am incredibly selfish ;) and write mainly for IE, so I wouldn't know how accurate this is,

Do you really need all those meta names?
Tuttle
October 16th, 2002, 02:15 AM
The HTML validator I use is at validator.w3.org, and that shows up just over 80 errors in the page (plus the missing DOCTYPE element, which is considered a fatal error).

The big ones I'd look at as possible causes are the unclosed tags, the over-closed tags and the way that the <P> element containing the copyright text describes itself using 'class="main"'. Nothing wrong with that last one in itself, except you don't define that class anywhere or reference a style sheet which does.
DanC
October 16th, 2002, 04:46 AM
I took a look with Netscape 4.76 (I use it only for checking web pages ;)) and it looked ok (same as IE).

Netscape is very unforgiving about table tags though. It could look different in other Netscape versions. I use the w3c validator Tuttle provided the link for and also the Web Design Group validator.

Your page validation results are here (http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgridironking.home.attbi.com%2Fwsb%2Fhtml%2Fall_the_kings_men.html&warnings=yes&input=yes).

In addition to the typical aesthetic mess MS Front Page makes with font tags, there are some table nesting errors that might cause problems for Netscape.
fflan513
October 16th, 2002, 09:06 AM
Thanks guys, I appreciate all your input. I am learning and you are greatly aiding my pursuit. Thanks :)