Cross OS heartbreak-- dreamweaver guidance needed SOS!! 1

[JayDubDesign]

You folks seem to know your stuff and so I was hoping you could provide me with some Dreamweaver advice or perhaps point me in the right direction….



I am designing a site for a friend:

http://www.southindianlake.com

I have used DW2004MX for the Mac to design it. In all tested browsers, the site looks fine. There are no breaks or screw ups. However, when I view it on my PC in the same browsers, it looks like ass. Broken up and separated spaces-- an absolute embarrassment. I desperately need some assistance here. I can't find a direct solution in the other forums.



I know some HTML and CSS, and hand coded my own portfolio site, but I want to switch to using DW because it is faster than hand coding. Plus, I am still pretty much in the dark when it comes to fixes.



Like I said... the site looks and works fine in all the major browsers in the Mac OS but on PC it looks really bad.



I appreciate any help or advice you can give me.



John

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[vacunita]

It looks fine in both IE6 and Firefox for Windows to me. What particular browser is giving you trouble?

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[JayDubDesign]

I am using Explorer 6 on my PC and explorer for Mac on my G4.

The PC version is inserting spaces everywhere. A good case in point would be this page:

http://southindianlake.com/PREVIEW SITE HERE/location.html

There are breaks in several of the images. These breaks don't exist in Firefox for either platform, nor do they exist in any tested browser on the Mac.

J

 

[vacunita]

I see the brakes in the images, however I can't find any reason for them in your code. Dreamweaver shows some misaligment with the images, try adding some CSS positioning to the images and it might correct. Maybe someone else here can pinpoint the problem, cause I cant see anything wrong with the code.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[johnwm]

Start off with a valid doctype. See:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...nlake.com/PREVIEW%20SITE%20HERE/location.html

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[ChrisHirst]

use a full and valid doctype first of all. A list of valid ones are here and remove all the whitespace in the source code from around the <img> tags

more questions on similar issues in forum215

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[JayDubDesign]

Thanks guys. I have fiddled with different doctypes without any luck. I am still not totally sold they make all that much of a difference, however, I will make the effort to enter proper doctypes onto each page.

As for the white spaces... that is a new solution for me. Can you be a bit more specific? Is that to say that I should have no white spaces before and after the closing brackets of the <img> tags? Interesting... I will give that a shot and report back my findings.

 

[CTekMedia]

If you don't use the correct doctype then IE will go into quirks mode which can negatively impact the display. Don't have time to look at the code but suspect you need to tweak your CSS (positioning).

Cheers,

Bluetone

 

[JayDubDesign]

Thanks to you all for your assistance. In the end, the suggestion to eliminate white space was what fixed the problem. Also, I have placed <td> tags on a single line rather than have hard returns in them. Legibility may be decreased, but stability has increased.

I should note for others, that Rowspans and Colspans are pretty fragile things. I guess I should be more careful with how I use them.

I haven't uploaded the new pages yet. I am going to take some time off. This coding stuff really burns me out. I am more of a front-end sort.

Thanks all,
John

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