Frontpage tags

Some tags don't work with other browsers

[steelrane]

I have seen a few stories about tags that FP creates are not supported by alt. bowsers like Firefox,Opera,mozilla, or Firebird. My web site looks terrible in these browsers most the pics are grainy but look perfect in IE is this a tag problem or maybe something else if you have the time please look <edit>no url drops</edit> its making me crazy!
Thanks

[edited by: caine at 9:00 pm (utc) on Feb. 11, 2004]
[edit reason] url drop - against tos [/edit]

[Blue_Wizard]

avoid using tags that adjust the brightness of an image, that an IE only thing.

Stay away from the javabuttons and marquees
non IE users just see a big white button that does nothing or a don't see the buttons and marquees at all.

If you are using words export to html and then importing into front page you get a ton of xml formatting garbage that is utterly redundant and useless.

If you are not bound to using front page consider using a more cross platform compatible WYSIWYG html generator such as Dreamweaver or Adobe Go Live.

If front page is a must- another option is to layout your pages in Dreamweaver and then import them into your Front Page web.

[steelrane]

Thanks for the help I just got dreamweaver so I will build my next site with that. Can I build in FP and then load it into dreamweaver to clean up the code?

[europeforvisitors]

First step is to RTFM--or, since manuals are pretty sparse these days, to read the Help file. :-)

If you search the FrontPage 2003 Help file on "browser compatibility," for example, you'll find information on Authoring Modes, on specifying support for features that require specific browsers, and so on.

FrontPage is a highly capable and versatile application, but--as with most programs--it requires a bit of practice and/or training to use effectively. If you're completely new to FrontPage, you might try typing the word "tutorial" into the FP2003 Help search window and taking some of the step-by-step tutorials that you'll see listed.

For what it's worth, I've been using FrontPage since version 1.1 (that was back in 1996, I think), and I've never found it difficult to use. But I suppose that a user who's diving into a newer, more feature-rich version of the program like FP2003 might find it a bit overwhelming at first.

[steelrane]

Thanks I'm using FP 2002 for about a 2 years and its seem so much trouble to get any of my site validated by wc3 without doing alot of changes so thats why I got Dreamweaver hoping that would help I'm also learning HTML so some day I can write code without worrying about bloated code! The only reason I didn't start with HTML is because I type very slow and it would take me months to do one page.Thanks again