If I may offer a suggestion to the original poster. Web site development is
what I do for a living and believe me it can be a real irrating experience
to get a site so that it is working correctly in NetScape and IE (not to
mention the other browsers). You problem stems from the fact that IE and
most Microsoft wysiwyg Dev tools are very forgiving when it comes to html
code. Some tags that are opened may not need to be closed for it to work in
IE. Netscape on the other hand is not forgiving at all. (and this is a good
thing because it insures good code!) The first thing I would look for is a
tag that you opened but never closed. Usually this is a </table> that gets
left out, thus preventing that table from displaying in NS. The advice on
testing with different browsers is worth noting. You should test it until
you get it right, then test it trying to break it and then test it some
more.
Just my 2 cents for what it is worth.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 6:45 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Farina Magnette Site Revamp
MGMagnette@aol.com wrote:
>
> I use Netscape 6 and it works just fine!
>
Unless you got a secret advance copy, I bet you are not using Netscape
6. I will wager money that you are only using a preview release of
Netscape 6.
It really is important, especially when using wysiwyg HTML churners (and
*particularly* when using microsoft products), to check your web work
out on other platforms than the one running native on your machine. I
have Netscape Navigator 3.04 (no need to go earlier than that these
days), Communicator 4.7x (whatever the latest release is) and a similar
run of IE versions on both my Mac and PC boxes.
It really can be embarrassing (not that embarrassment is the case here
:-) to have your site screw up badly for 10/20/50% of people who you
seek to attract to it.
If you will, liken it to selling a car that refuses to start when the
potential buyer wants to take it for a test drive... doh!
Eric
'68MGB MkII
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