AOL compatibility

[gopi]

Hi all,

I am worried about my site's look in aol. Can anyone please check (the site in my profile) it in AOL browser.
I know that IE and AOL are near identical but heard that AOL displays images a little different as it use image compression.
I use an gif pattern as background in my header and navigational tables. So i am little concerned.
So if anybody has a aol connection plz take time to look over my site (in my profile).
Plz help a newbie in designing a good site.
Thanks in advance

[CaptainKarl]

Whats the URL

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(edited by: Marcia at 2:50 am (gmt) on Nov. 18, 2001)

[namniboose]

Hi Gopi, I have an AOL connection and your graphics look fine - photos on my site, on the other hand, look very blurred.

Need to put them into another format/make them smaller.

[gopi]

CaptainKarl , the url is in my profile...

[gopi]

Thanks namniboose ....
Also i heard that the default screen width in aol is 640 ,but i designed my site for 800.
Is it a problem ,How are the other sites (like cnn) look in aol ,as a user will you have to maximise the window to see them without scrolling horizontally??

[keyplyr]

>photos on my site, on the other hand, look very blurred.

The photos look nice and sharp to me Namniboose,

[namniboose]

Hi again Gopi,

Yes, I do have to maximise my browser to view your site but that is not uncommon - CNN is similar as is Overture and many others.

I'm sure AOL users are used to maximising their browser or scrolling.

[namniboose]

Hi Keyplyr!

Are you looking at them on AOL with compression turned on (the default)?

[keyplyr]

Hi there namniboose,

>Are you looking at them on AOL with compression turned on (the default)?

LOL - No, my machine is an AOL free zone. Guess my observations are OT. I viewed it with Opera6 and IE6 and it looks great. AOL makes a lot of media noise, but personally I wouldn't over inflate their significance. A very small number of my users have that UA.

[gopi]

Namniboose ,this is great. I am happy now .I am concerned with aol because lately i got good positions in aol search (ofcourse with tips from webmasterworld) for my keywords and i didnt checked my site in aol when i designed...
Thanks a zillion namniboose for this help. I find this board extremely useful.

[namniboose]

I get a lot of AOL visitors to our website, Keyplyr, and the compression does make our photos look TERRIBLE.

I agree that AOL sucks as a browser and as an ISP, but there are some things about the software that I like.

[keyplyr]

>I get a lot of AOL visitors to our website...

Namniboose, the AOL proxy server tends to inflate the unique visit count since one visitor can use 7 or more IPs.

[namniboose]

Actually, I was thinking more of the number of actual inquiries from people with AOL addresses - although visits from the server account for almost 25% of all hits to our site.