[WEB4LIB] Problems with New Web Page and IE 5.0

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Easy: Change your table widths from pixels to percents (for example, 750px
would be 100%). 
Be sure to change ALL (td, th, etc.) or Netscape will ignore all.
DreamWeaver lets you do it all in one command, not sure about other
programs, but edit/replace is good if you're careful and thorough.

Undoubtedly others would have answered this already, but probably most folks
on this list are heading off to vacations about now.
;)
Nancy


on 12/20/02 11:29 AM, Robyn Barker at rbarker at ciis.edu wrote:

> I'm in the process of re-making the Library Web site for the Institute
> -- mostly to be more user friendly.  I use 1st Page 2000 -- but mostly I
> hand code.  I've been trying to incorporate CSS as much as possible and
> to the extent I can understand it.  I began using HTML 4.01
> Transitional, but have tried using XHTML 1.0 (as suggested here) for
> more recent pages.  I attempt to validate pages after creation using the
> W3C Validator.  Mostly the pages validate, but occasionally they don't
> because of tags I use so that the pages work in Netscape 4.08.
> 
> I've loaded Netscape 4.08 and the latest version of Mozilla to join the
> IE 6.0 already on my computer and check each page to make sure they look
> reasonable on each of these browsers.  Finally, the Institute uses
> Windows 2000, so I rely on ASP to run the SSI (my navigation bar), to
> power my forms, and to insert the date when the page was updated.
> 
> So far, everything seemed to be working fine.  But I was horrified to
> find that some of my pages are completely falling apart on the IE 5.0 I
> run on my home computer.  They stretch out for an almost infinite
> distance horizontally.  The ultimate Web faux pas.  I've gone over the
> code several times and can find nothing wrong.  We're very small -- I'm
> the lone techie in the Library
> 
> I would really appreciate another pair of eyes!
> 
> Page that behaves:  http://library.ciis.edu/newsite/resources/index.asp
> 
> One page that does not:
> http://library.ciis.edu/newsite/services/index.asp
> 
> Thanks so much for any help!
> 
> Robyn Barker
> Systems Librarian
> California Institute of Integral Studies
> 1453 Mission St.
> San Francisco, CA  94103
> 
> 
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