My brother is in the process of designing his first web page and confused about making it compatible with all the different web browsers. Can you help?
Thanks..

First of all, try to make it standards compliant. It will make your life easier, but won't solve all problems. Get a copy of all the browsers you want it to work in, and test the site as you go along in each browser. Try to fix cross browser issues first of all by finding a different way of doing what you are trying to acheive. If you still have problems, create a 'fix' for the problematic browser, and put it in a seperate stylesheet. Use server side code (or JavaScript/conditional comments if server side code can't be used) to dish out that style sheet to only the problematic browser.
And one of the most important rules, keep it simple!

Here are some statistics that show you how many people are using the major browsers. Not sure about the accuracy, but maybe they give a rough idea.

Here is a link that provides downlevel Netscape browsers http://sillydog.org/narchive/JohnJ

Originally Posted by Minaki

First of all, try to make it standards compliant. It will make your life easier, but won't solve all problems. And one of the most important rules, keep it simple!

yes, i should agree on this.

but whatever you do, remember to check your codes for any errors.
an error free page displays properly 99% of the time.

remember NS4 is dead..
first kinda check out what your target audience are and what browsers/os they will be using. if you know that, it will be very helpful.

techies keep themselves updated (exceptions with some). old people dont bother updating.

if u audience is gonna use IE 90% of the time and you dont mind abt the remaining, go ahead and create a page supported by IE but at the same time renders well in others.

also check out browsercam.com
shows you how the pages look in a variety of browsers.