different screen resolutions

**Kahless** · 11-13-2008, 12:30 PM

I designed my website with frontpage, using tables. I used 800x600 resolution on my pc while designing, and found browsers, particularly firefox and netscape have a lot of issues if the resolution gets to 1280x800. It slings the page elements around. is there any script to help resize for Mozilla and netscape specificallY?

Thanx, Kahless

**hartofalyon** · 11-13-2008, 11:22 PM

do you have a link to your site for us to look at? it's a problem with your mark-up, not firefox/mozilla.

**Kahless** · 11-14-2008, 10:44 AM

http://www.spa10k.com

**LadynRed** · 11-14-2008, 04:08 PM

What you NEED is get rid of FP and lose the tables. FP creates sites that work well ONLY in IE - so you pay the price in other browsers.

You need to VALIDATE your code, you've got a ton of errors, unclosed and improperly closed tags etc., and you MUST put a proper DOCTYPE on your pages if you want ANY hope of cross-browser compatibility.

**Kahless** · 11-14-2008, 07:34 PM

Ok, I assume your solution to all of this is to crack out the notepad and write pages of code by hand. I have a job and a long commute doing something else, so I need simplere solutions than just saying, lose FP. Any practicval solutions for someone on a time budget?

Thanx

**The-Pixel** · 11-15-2008, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LadynRed

What you NEED is get rid of FP and lose the tables. FP creates sites that work well ONLY in IE - so you pay the price in other browsers.

You need to VALIDATE your code, you've got a ton of errors, unclosed and improperly closed tags etc., and you MUST put a proper DOCTYPE on your pages if you want ANY hope of cross-browser compatibility.

Listen to LadynRed she always gives really good advice. Your website color scheme is extremely hard on the eyes.

**chrishirst** · 11-15-2008, 08:10 AM

There are plenty of "page authoring tools" around that are capable of producing MUCH better code than FP.

NVU, HTML-Kit , 1stPage2000, CoffeeCup etc.

**Kahless** · 08:51 PM

Which one of these is your favorite?

Thanx

**Kahless** · 11-15-2008, 12:40 PM

And response to the person who said the site was hard on the eyes, I just made it to suit the client, not my call. The huge graphic on the front page not my call either.

thanx

**chrishirst** · 11-16-2008, 07:40 AM

NVU but then I'm equally Ok using Notepad or EditPlus for coding.

NVU has Site management and FTP built in. So if you need it to be more like FP or DW that would be "weapon of choice".

I also forgot about AEDix (download page) similar features as NVU just not quite as user friendly (IMO)

I carry the AEDix & NVU installers around on a memory stick just in case I'm "caught short" and need an editor when I'm away from my desk

**davemies** · 11-16-2008, 11:43 AM

chris - isn't nvu kompozer now (well rhetorical question really...)
http://kompozer.net/

**chrishirst** · 11-16-2008, 01:11 PM

Well "sort of" I think is the best way of putting it

Komposer started as a fork of NVU, but now that Linspire has abandoned the NVU project, hopefully Komposer will continue to be developed.

**Kahless** · 11-18-2008, 10:56 AM

If you saw the banner on the website, you saw the Spa 10K race is Nov 27. With driving 2 hours a day to work I didn't have time to learn a new web design program this year. I got some relief by redesigning it in FP while my screen resolution was set to 1024X768 and adding the following...

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">

However, when trying to validate the Document, "The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the <meta> element (windows-1252). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation"

I looked everywhere and I couldn't find a better DOC TYPE declaration statement. What should I use?

Thanx

**chrishirst** · 11-18-2008, 12:48 PM

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html

**Kahless** · 11-20-2008, 03:53 PM

When I try to save my notepad code as an html document before uploading, I noticed it gives coding options, ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, and UTF-8. What should I do?

The Doc statement I settled on was...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

The site has been reworked. Unfortunately since the race is 112808 and I don't have the time to learn to be a web making god, I stuck with what I knew, as limited as it is.

Does anyone have an ideas to improve this site for multi-resolution and cross-browser compatibility without starting over?

Thanx