Website display varies with the following browser versions...

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Sixbells

I just published www.mwncov.com. It is (somewhat) compatible with the
following browser versions:
1) Apple Safari Version 3.2.1
2) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; RV:1.9.0.5)
Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5:
3) Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17 GoogleToolbarFF 3.1.20081010
GoogleToolbarFF 3.1.20081010.
NOTE: Small white space at bottom of Weinstein and Meredith's pages due
to Bio Link with both 1 & 2 browsers.
4) Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 Version 7.0.5730.13 (OS Windows XP-Pro
Version 5.1.2600 SP 2 Build 2600)
NOTE: All lawyers page(s) shifts left, minor and exclusive to IE 7.0
5) Opera Version 9.63, Build 10476 -- Looks and behaves perfect!!

-- I am doing this site as a favor to my brother, and am close to finishing
it, I appreciate your inputs!

Many Regards,
Sixbells
 
Your page is a bit chubby -


8.0K 1 HTML/Text
0.8K 1 JavaScript File
8.1K 1 Stylesheet File
530.4K 12 Images
547.5K Total size
15 HTTP requests

A home page should be <100K. You could optimize that 376K image of the
Golden Gate bridge down by quite a bit (at least 50% if not much more).

The most IMPORTANT thing you can do for a page to get started at achieving
reliable cross-browser rendering is to make sure it is rendering in
Standards mode, not quirks mode. Unfortunately, yours is rendering in the
latter. Fix that by adding a valid and complete doctype to all pages - try
changing <html> to this -

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

- as a first step.
4) Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 Version 7.0.5730.13 (OS Windows XP-Pro
Version 5.1.2600 SP 2 Build 2600)
NOTE: All lawyers page(s) shifts left, minor and exclusive to IE 7.0
Click to expand...

What you are seeing there is a shift in all browsers EXCEPT IE, to
accommodate the appearance of the scrollbar on longer pages. You can force
ALL pages to have a scrollbar so that this doesn't happen by adding this to
a global stylesheet -

html, body { min-height:100%;margin-bottom:1px!important; }

We've alread seen this page multiple times several months ago. Are you a
new developer on the case?
 
No Murray, I am the same programmer. I have been hospitalized most of the
latter part of 2008 with an aneurysm, and am frankly, not at the capacity I
would like to be at to deal with the finalization of the of the website, but
agreed to help my brother. I do appreciate you input friend.
 
Didn't recall that you were posting under "Sixbells". Best of luck to you!

How can we help you further?
 
Thanks Murray, I am only good for abo9ut an hour in front of the computer, so
I need to get away from it for a while, but I have done the following:

1) Optimized that 376K image of the Golden Gate bridge down to ~ 150K.

2) Addded thedeclaration as suggested:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

3) I am not a programmer (obvious), and I am struggling with the white space
below the copyright statements. I know my tables are all messed up; nested
within nests within nests, I just want to clean that one error up with all of
the Browsers above... IE: Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Safari.

Thanks for your help Murray, Microsoft's communities are the best!
Sixbells
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