I designed a website for my non-profit using MS Publisher...I know, it's a lame program for web design, but it's all I have and I have no budget yet.
The website looks and runs great on Internet Explorer. It looks like crap and only two links on the home page run using Firefox.
My web server support says everything looks fine on their end, the problem is with Firefox or Publisher. I know it's easy to blame Publisher, but after going on the Firefox support site, I see a FAQ "Why don't websites don't look right using Firefox?" Now I wonder if there is something on the Firefox side that is messed up.
Does anyone know what I can do with my meager software or ability to edit the code to help remedy the problem?
2007-09-21 08:39:43 · 4 answers · asked by lduncan00 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
The odds are it is not a problem with Firefox. I will not say it is a problem with publisher either. I will say though I would actually review the source code and run it through the w3c validation tool.
I have seen that problem in the past and it seems that Firefox is not as forgiving on coding errors as IE can be. I would start by verifying the paths on the hyperlinks are correct.
Build the website to look good in Firefox and use Microsoft conditional comments to make it look the same in IE. Do not use tables for positioning of non tabular data. Use CSS instead for your positioning. If your editor does not support CSS download a trial of Dreamweaver or homesite to do it in.
Check out http://w3c.org for information on (x)HTML and CSS
2007-09-21 08:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Universal gripe! Browsers behave differently. Depends on how you look at it, but, the way the World Wide Web Consortium defined language standards is slightly different from the way IE interprets them in a lot of ways, and you wrote with MS Publisher, which is geared toward (of course) IE...to really make your pages cross-browser friendly, you may have to git in thar and finagle the code.
One tiny example is that, IE decides the "width" of an item is the "border plus padding" while the others (like Firefox and Opera...) take it as the "border plus padding plus margin" ... and like that...
So, for your links-that-don't seem-to-work, maybe you should go in and look, and edit by hand, and make danged sure what MS Publisher put there is correct, and fix it if it ain't.
Maybe, too, you'll want to diddle with styles, and placement of paragraphs, and such.
And I'll bet ol' Publisher (if I recall?) did your layout from a Word document? You may have a real booger of a time digging through the resulting code, so be prepared to take your time...
2007-09-21 18:05:06 · answer #2 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is not with FireFox. Publisher is not a web-design tool and your code is not right. Learn to code properly. Check out http://www.w3schools.com.
2007-09-21 15:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by ѕσмєgυy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is with FireFox
I have the same problems everytime I design a website.
2007-09-21 15:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by Samurai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋