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Posted by Jamie Allison on 07/28/06 14:28
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jamie Allison wrote:
>> 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?
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/
>> 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.
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..
>
>> 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.)
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?
>
> Just something to think about.
>
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