Posted by A. Russell Murray on 01/25/06 05:10

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> René Kabis wrote:
>> I have tightened up the code and the graphics quite a bit, and I’ve
>> discovered that IE support in my new layout and design is
>> temperamental at best.
>>
>> While Firefox and Opera seem to display the site just fine, one-third
>> of machines that I use to view it with IE have IE crapping out on the
>> design. The other two-thirds of machines where I use IE to view the
>> site with, it works perfectly.
>>
>> If anyone has the site crap out on them with IE, could they please
>> provide me with full machine stats (HW, O/S, Software, etc.) so I can
>> determine if it is a version, software or o/s issue.
>>
>> Btw, the site is http://rene.kabis.org/
>>
>> TIA
>> René Kabis
>>
> Aside of the fact that your images are way too big, a little
> optimization and compression can go a long way) you have a fundamental
> error in your layout. Absolute widths that are right justified means
> that on a average web browser with screen resolution of 800x600 must
> have their browser maximize or your site navigation disappears off
> screen. Not good at all.
>
Axemurderer writes...

Hey there.

I've accessed your site with IE 6, FireFox 1.5 and Netscape8 with a
screen resolution of 1280x1024 pixels...

The 1/4 sunflower background image is present in all three. There is NO
sepia toned background image only a background color of cornflower blue.
The rollovers assocaite with items 1-5 are only present, partially in IE6.

Overall, it is aesthetically pleasing if somewhat understated. The text
remains on the right-hand side of the screen.

Try running some of the roll-over images through Fireworks or ImageReady
since they allow you to monkey-around with transparency levels.

Axe

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