Hey, does anyone know how I can easily test my site in lots of different browsers without having to download and install them? I just noticed the new version of one of my pages I worked on all day yesterday looks great in Firefox and Netscape and awful in IE. So, that makes me wonder about all the other browsers.... Opera, etc.

Any advice?

Thanks,
-Bonnie

What is the url of your new page ?

Some tools: http://www.masternewmedia.org/2001/06/29/t...eb_browsers.htm


How to have all browsers in your machine?
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/mul...ebrowsers.shtml



give a look to http://www.netmechanic.com/browser-index.htm

Make sure than your page is showed right at least in IE 6 and Firefox.
You can see a Browsers use statistics here: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Also you can check an App called Browserola (http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000029033)
(I'll not put my hands in fire for this...but!)

Thanks mblendinger!

I'll check out those links!

Here's the url I'm talking about:
http://orphicendeavors.bpgisme.com/

It looks exactly as I planned in Firefox and Netscape. In IE the side section doesn't go all the way down... (Nitpicky, I know... )

-Bonnie

Your welcome, Bonnie
It's an interesting topic.



I confirm that with my Firefox and an IE 6.0.2800

Yeah... darned IE.

I use Firefox exclusively but I know plenty of folks who don't, unfortunately, no matter how I try to change them over. There must be just a simple code I can change somewhere to fix that. Anyway, I'll go check your links now. (I had to leave my computer for a few minutes.)

Thanks again!

(By the way, turns out it's a "float" issue in IE with "clear all".... *grumble, grumble*....)

The fairly simple solution to display differences between browsers is to ensure that your coding is 100% compliant to its standard. So if you are using 4.0 transitional, make sure it tests out 100% valid.

The way I test sites is I have all the major browsers install on one machine here. IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%....bpgisme.com%2F

I would recode it for HTML 4.01 Transitional as its more suited.

jason is absolutely right, writing valid code not only make your site looks good on most browser but also help browsers to load it faster and search engines to index it better, 265 errors is way too much, try to use css instead of html tags...

ps: looks horrible in safari (mac osx) (worse than in ie)

Ouch! Okay guys! I'll get back to work on it.

I went ahead and downloaded the browsers.

-Bonnie

Whew! I did it. I didn't fix the float issue yet, but by golly it's finally valid HTML 4.01 Transitional! Only took me all day. I learned a lot from this experience too. I learned that a template is an okay starting point, but just jumping in and altering it without checking it as you go doesn't work. I don't know yet how the page looks on a Mac, but it seems to work much better in IE and Opera and it always looked good in Netscape and Firefox. Tonight I think I'm doing to let that little irritating Float issue go.... If anyone knows of an easy way to fix it I'd be thankful. Otherwise it's back to the drawing board again tomorrow afternoon.

And I don't even want to think about the rest of the site yet. There's another day (or week or MONTH) for all that....

Thanks for your help everyone!

-Bonnie

(And I know the CSS might not be better yet either. I was mainly concentrating on getting the page validated today....That's another job for tomorrow afternoon.)

its much better now, but theres still a problem with the static banner... this is how it looks in a mac

Yeah... That's a resolution issue. I have an % size image setting on the rest of the site, but not on this page.... I can fix that.

Thanks for looking at it on a Mac! Now the page looks as I intended it to.
-Bonnie

safari works different than any other browser, no matter what screen resolution you have, you wont see it right, my screen is at 1680x1050 pixels and thats how it looks, you need to set a fixed width value to make it work

Does it still look like that? I did a bit of tweaking... It will probably look like "skinny vision" but that's okay.

-Bonnie

PS- Thanks for looking at this, carahost and responding to me. I know everyone here is much busier than I am. This website thing is just my hobby.

you got it! the layout is perfect... but the banner looks kind of shrunk, anyway i wouldnt have noticed that without looking at the previous one... wouldnt be better to resize (or redo) the banner to the same size of the flash one?




PS im still in school so i have plenty of time
keep up the good work Bonnie!