People,
For my community's website, I designed a form in Dreamweaver MX on my PC at
work, which is running Windows 2000 Pro & Internet Explorer 5.00. Of
course, it looked great (the way I intended it to look) on my machine. But
just to be sure it looked correct (& was functional) on XP & IE 6, I took it
home & opened it up on my personal machine.
It looked weird, in that, the spacing between layers was different (& the
start of the 2nd page was affected by the more narrow positioning of the
layers.) Our webmaster (who is a community volunteer; & not a pro)
suggested that any web content should be constructed on the latest OS
running the latest browser, to insure the best possible cross compatibility.
So I took it home; & redesigned it so that it looks good on IE 6 running on
XP.
Brought it back to work (2000 Pro/IE 5); & of course, now the layers have a
more expanded positioning. I tweaked it just a bit, so it looks passable,
but was wondering...
Is this always the case?
Is it impossible to design a page (or a site) that will at least be uniform
from platform to platform & browser to browser?
Is what our webmaster told me correct (design on the most recent platform)?
Is there anything I can do with the code to give me a bit more uniformity?
Thanks very much,
DesRev1
For my community's website, I designed a form in Dreamweaver MX on my PC at
work, which is running Windows 2000 Pro & Internet Explorer 5.00. Of
course, it looked great (the way I intended it to look) on my machine. But
just to be sure it looked correct (& was functional) on XP & IE 6, I took it
home & opened it up on my personal machine.
It looked weird, in that, the spacing between layers was different (& the
start of the 2nd page was affected by the more narrow positioning of the
layers.) Our webmaster (who is a community volunteer; & not a pro)
suggested that any web content should be constructed on the latest OS
running the latest browser, to insure the best possible cross compatibility.
So I took it home; & redesigned it so that it looks good on IE 6 running on
XP.
Brought it back to work (2000 Pro/IE 5); & of course, now the layers have a
more expanded positioning. I tweaked it just a bit, so it looks passable,
but was wondering...
Is this always the case?
Is it impossible to design a page (or a site) that will at least be uniform
from platform to platform & browser to browser?
Is what our webmaster told me correct (design on the most recent platform)?
Is there anything I can do with the code to give me a bit more uniformity?
Thanks very much,
DesRev1