appears fine in Internet Explorer 5 but in newer versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape it shifts down about 2mm. Is there a way to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@VladdySep 18.2003 — #You asked about site appearance in different browsers. The link shows how your site will appear in a text browser (which is also close to what search engine will see, or screen reader user will hear) - not something I would call a desirable result.
WYSIWYG editors such as dreamweaver are dynosaurs - web is heading towards a greater variety of user agents so you no longer can expect how your site will be seen and whether it will be seen at all.
When you say 2mm shift, what kind of medium are you talking about: paper, monitor, etc? If monitor, then what kind of resolution?
@spufiSep 18.2003 — #[i]Originally posted by Vladdy [/i]
[B]WYSIWYG editors such as dreamweaver are dynosaurs - web is heading towards a greater variety of user agents so you no longer can expect how your site will be seen and whether it will be seen at all.[/B][/QUOTE]
Can I just say that's bunk? While certianly we can agree something like FP sucks, DW is a good WYSIWYG editor and if used in the hands of the right web designer, it can create valid pages which look good on a number of devices, and generally within less time a handcoder can do it. I think WYSIWYG editors and other such tools for creating web pages, blogs, etc. are only getting better, so I doubt they are going away anytime soon.
@his_boy_elroyauthorSep 18.2003 — #Thanks again for your insight. What do you recommend that I use to create and edit my site? I am new to all of this.
What I ment by 2mm is a visual reference to the distance the buttons apear to have shifted. My screen resolution is 1024x768.
@PeOfEoSep 18.2003 — #I aggree with spufi about the WYSIWYG editors. But if you are looking for a good free tool nothing beats note pad along with several different browsers open to preview your site and google if you need to hunt down a cript, and oh yea the wc3 validator open so you can debug it on the spot.
@spufiSep 19.2003 — #[i]Originally posted by PeOfEo [/i]
[B]if you are looking for a good free tool nothing beats note pad[/B][/QUOTE]
Nope. Any free text editor with line numbers and color coding beats the pants off of Notepad. Using line numbers for errors in JavaScript code and color coding to make sure you have something spelled correctly can save a newbie a bunch of time trying to code a web page. There have been times I copied code people posted on here, and I could instantly see if they were using an invalid word, or a misspelled one just because the color wasn't what it should have been in my text editor. Even though I don't use it, HTML Kit is a solid free text editor.