plz help: Dreamweaver & Browser porblems

My Dreamweaver pop-up menu looks like crap on anyone else's computer

[mxgrogg]

Help desperately needed! I am building a dentist's site in dreamweaver mx and made the navigation and title bar in fireworks mx. The pop-up heiarchy that i created is one using graphics (looks great) instead of the lame looking 2-d HTML option.
When i look at the page on anyone else's computer, the popup looks like crap but on my comp with the latest ie, it looks wonderful. i can't seem to find any help in the tutorials, files, web or on macromedia's site. That's why i am coming to you guys.
In anyone else's computer the popup menu has weird colors and the mouseover slot is blanked out, and on netscape on my comp, the menu doesn't wig out like on other's computers, but the menu looses the cool 3-d button look.
Thanks in advance for your help.

url of my problem:

<sorry, no links to personal examples>

[edited by: tedster at 1:18 am (utc) on June 19, 2003]

[caine]

Welcome to Webmasterworld.

You've hit a wall called THE CROSS BROWSER PLATFORM ISSUE.
For every possible operating system, graphics setup, monitor display interspersed with a multitude of browsers, then you have hundreds if not more visual outputs to consider when designing any aspect of the graphics used within your site.
For me being able to view a site on a old box running 95 or an early linux, with Netscape 4.x and I.E 4.x, or mozilla is my benchmark, i also like to make sure that individuals with text based browsers can view as well.

Accesibility - design for the users, not for oneself's view of what is great looking.

[tedster]

This may be a stupid question, but since you are just developing the site, and since you said the problems happen on EVERYONE else's computer, perhaps you didn't upload the graphics for the pop-ups to the server? Or maybe you did upload them, but your HTML still has the local pathnames for your machine?

In either of these cases, only you would see the images and everyone else would have a problem.

[mxgrogg]

k, i'm gona check this out, but i think it has something todo with dreamweaver because the other computers can see the data, the java just doesnt respond as it should. i cant believe that dreamweaver can create functions that only i can see. i wonder if there is some way to make the site as fantastic as i want, then export it in a format that can be read by everyonge else. Ideas?

[tedster]

i cant believe that dreamweaver can create functions that only i can see

Me neither. MM is sharper than that. That's why I asked what I did...it's a relatively common thing.

By the way, your menu uses JavaScript. Java is an entirely different technology.