Web Designer Wannabe Having Compatability Problems

Netscape is making my head explode

[LoriB]

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone can help. I am putting up a website for a Cheerleading Gym. The design is what the owner wants (she's happy) and I really don't want to change the design. It looks like ^%$#* in Netscape. Is there a simple fix in my code to keep it the same in Netscape?

Thank you

[edited by: heini at 9:17 pm (utc) on May 24, 2003]
[edit reason] No urls/sitereviews please / thanks! [/edit]

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Whether the fix is simple or not isn't easy to say. Explorer will often forgive errors in your code that Netscape and other browsers refuse to deal with.

So the first step is to find out if the code is valid. You can do this by using the free online validators that are supplied by the W3C:

HTML Validator [validator.w3.org]
CSS Validator [jigsaw.w3.org]

Once you know there are no mistakes in your code, it's a lot easier to zero in on browser specific issues.

[fathom]

Hi LoriB and welcome to WebmasterWorld! :)

There is no simple answer to your problem, however validating your code may help identifying the problems.

W3C.org HTML [validator.w3.org] and CSS [jigsaw.w3.org]

In addition - a tip > if you design for Mozilla with valid code > your design should be appropriate for almost all newer browsers.

Tedster was faster on the draw > glad to see our problem-solving ability works Ted!

[LoriB]

Thank you both for a quick reply...I'll try the links.
And the Mozilla tip.