website not correct on mac

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Hi, I am at a loss. This site views ok and the links work to me, however
when viewed on a mac the images and some text disappear and non of the
hyperlinks work. Thanks. www.jobs2see.com
 
A guess, but anything created such as word art, and XML objects like the
drawing tools (boxes & shapes) will only be viewable in IE for Windows - no
other browser will touch XML objects. Or you'll get a very (bad)
representation of those objects as a gif image.

If you want the word art, then create it, then take a screen capture of it,
crop it in an image editor and import/insert that image in to your page.

Not sure about the links problem since I don't use a Mac.

Which browser are you using? Since Mac's MacOS X has various others besides
the mainstream Opera, Firefox, Netscape, IE etc.
 
Thanks for yor help. It was really difficult for me to get that far.

Is there a way to insert a table with the black borders with rounded
corners to look similar to the word art?

Thanks in advance.
 
The problem is using FrontPage text boxes and possibly other VML
graphics.

VML graphics include WordArt, ShapeArt and Text Boxes.
Avoid using Word Art. Word Art uses VML graphics which can only be
seen in IE5.5 and later running on Windows PCs. A large number of
users (around 25%) do not use IE, those users will see a down-level
poor quality image if you have allowed that option, or nothing at all.

You can make the Word Art in Word, then copy and paste into a graphics
program (Paint is suitable if you are using WindowsXP). Crop and
optimise the image, then save for the web as a .jpg or .gif (use a
..gif if there are less than 256 colours in the image). Import the
image into FrontPage and insert where required.

VML Text boxes
Hyperlinks placed in VML text boxes may not work at all in some
browsers, particularly non-IE, and probably the older versions of IE.
Any text in a VML text box will be included in the down-level image
seen by non-IE browsers, that is if you are allowing down-level images
in Page Options.

FYI, VML graphics are produced by using text-boxes, WordArt, and any
other object produced using the FrontPage drawing toolbar. Due to the
restrictions outlined above VML should never be used in a publicly
accessible web site, but are fine where the browser is restricted to
IE running on Windows.

Additionally, as mentioned in the Apple discussion group, it looks as
if your cat has designed the end of the page by sitting on the space
bar and occasionally hitting the Enter key :)
The space bar should never be used for layout design, since different
browsers will render a space character with a different size,
depending on how the browser text-size is set.
 
thanks so much for that- had almost given up on the whole thing but renewed
enthusiasm now- here hoping can get all of the problems fixed.
 
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