Help with Dreamweaver 4 Cross Platform Web Page Design

Dreamweaver 4 cross-platform web page design problems

[LlamaTrek]

Help!

Are there any Dreamweaver 4 users out there who can tell me how to design my web pages on my Mac, but make sure the pages view the way I want in Windows?

Thanx in advance,

Stuart

[Syren_Song]

I'd suggest using fluid design. That way the images will fall more or less where you want them on the screen proportionately.

The other thing you may want to do is find some folks who use Windows and ask them to take a look and/or send you a screen capture and/or stop by their place(s) for a visit and take a look yourself. ;)

[Syren_Song]

Oh yeah. And make sure you run the page/site through an HTML validator. If it validates, you shouldn't have to worry about any weird coding that works on one platform, but not another.

Good Luck!

[Macguru]

Hi LlamaTrek,

Welcome to the board and to The Macintosh Webmaster Forum.

It is impossible to summarise in just a few lines how to write 'perfect' cross platform sites. Your question is quite broad and general. There are hundreds of answers you have to hunt for. As Syren_Song suggests, code validation is the place to start.

You can use W3C Free MarkUp Validation Services for HTML [validator.w3.org] and CSS [jigsaw.w3.org].

Once you have valid code, you will need to adress various Browser specific and platform specific bugs, glitches and behaviors. Using the site search [searchengineworld.com] feature, with specific queries, you will find that most issues have been already dealt with here.

The CSS [webmasterworld.com] and HTML design [webmasterworld.com] libraries also can be of some great help.