[WEB4LIB] Strategy on designing web page

[P.A. Gantt]

You can use Netscape Composer then clean up
the code using Dreamweaver2 which can remove
coding aberrations.

The beauty of DW2 is it is cross-platform and cross-browser.
Don't forget to run your pages thru. Bobby for Accessibility also.

http://aware.hwg.org/why/myths.html

and this:

http://www.w3.org/1999/05/WCAG-REC-fact

Use the Verdana, Arial, Helvetica font family for readability.

> 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?

I wouldn't go with FrontPage, IMHO.
DW2 a better choice. 

-- 
P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor
Electronic Media Design and Support
http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/
[the Internet] could remain what it ought to be:
just a public instrument. There ought to be efforts --
not just talk but real efforts -- to ensure Internet
access, not just for rich people but for everyone.
~~ Noam Chomsky< MIT ~~