[WEB4LIB] Strategy on designing web page

[Bill Feidt]

Faced with inconsistent results of the kind you describe, I'd first
make sure that my HTML was syntactically correct. Non-standard HTML
is very often responsible for this kind of symptom.  An easy way to
check is to use the WDG HTML Validator:
 
  http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/

If your page(s) has problems, this validator will identify then and
provide help in making the necessary corrections.

And yes, "WYSIWYG" HTML editors are notorious for producing illegal 
HTML, although I can't comment specifically about the Netscape product
since I've never used it.

Good luck,

Bill Feidt
AgNIC
wfeidt at agnic.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Giacanelli [mailto:md1251 at mclink.it]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 6:44 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Strategy on designing web page


Dear Web4Libbers,

I would like to have advice from you about designing web page with Netscape
Composer. I use Composer to design the web page of our library but what I am
experiencing are problems in visualizing the pages with different browser. 

Paragraph which seems to be correctly formatted in Netscape, receive more
space e.g. between each other in MSIE. If I open Wordpad and work directly
on HTML code I notice a lot of <BR> tags I suppose inserted automatically by
Netscape; tables are bigger in one browser than in another with problems
with the readability of the page.  This sound simple problems with HTML, but
I waste a lot of time also for inserting simple textual news. I know that
perhaps is better to work directly on HTML code, but as I work as solo I
don't have so much time.

Are HTML editor so unreliable? (I tried to open a page with FrontPage editor
and it looks completly different formatted as in Netscape). Is a question of
validation of HTML code?

Any advice on strategy for designing web page will be appreciate.
Best regards
Francesco Giacanelli