Posted by Nije Nego on 04/22/06 22:25

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:11:54 -0400, Bill wrote:

> No URL yet, the original site is www.faithecchurch.org . I started out with
> a badly botched up site and completely rewrote it using FrontPage 2003. My
> initial try is what I'm calling the interim site, works but not fancy or all
> that up to date code wise. I have done some research and discovered css and
> decided to rework the site to get most of the formatting out of the content
> page. My main goal is to get a technically correct site that will allow
> most browsers to view it in an acceptable way, including voice browsers for
> the blind(it is a church site after all shouldn't it be accessible to
> everyone who wants to 'view' it) and one that is not completely ugly ;) I'm
> not looking for extreme or fancy just down to earth, I'm not good enough to
> do a 'Heavenly' site :)
>
>
> Bill
>
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1i62g.28677$az4.10359@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Bill wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on learning html/css/java etc so I can maintain a church
> website
>>> and am currently rewriting said site to use css instead of tables for
>>> formating. After getting a good chunk of the way through the rewrite I
>>> decided to try viewing the site in other browsers, Netscape, mozilla and
>>> Opera, to see how well the would handle a site designed for IE 6. Of
> course
>>> there are differences so I was looking into detecting different browsers
> so
>>> I could add in css sheets to fix individual browser problems. Here's
> the
>>> kicker, should I be designing the default page for IE 6 or something
> else?
>>> What I mean is do I make a page that looks good in IE 6 and fix it for
> the
>>> other browsers or do I use something else and fix the page for IE 6
> quirks
>>> and bugs??
>>
>> Design for other browsers first, then possibly add some fixes for the IE
>> bugs. Make sure you are using a DOCTYPE that triggers standard and not
>> quirks mode.
>>
>> My philosophy is to design with no browser in mind at all.
>>
>>> Which browser is more Standards Complient?
>>
>> Among popular modern browsers? Almost any but IE. Perhaps Opera.
>>
>>> I figure that I'd be better off getting as close to Complient as
>>> possible and adding fixes for IE 6 but I'm not sure WHICH browser is
>>> the closest. Any suggestions??
>>
>> Seeing your efforts to date would be a good start on any
>> recommendations. URL?
>>
>> --
>> -bts
>> -Warning: I brake for lawn deer

/*url*/'file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/adm.ISSPECIALIST/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/FrontPageTempDir/button22.jpg');
makesnake()"

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maybe later

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