What-Is-What website

They're already doing this but it's not going to change anything for IE6 users.

Highly unlikely. They'll just ditch the broken websites.

In my opinion, for such a simple layout, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to get this to work in IE. And you're right: I think the 'this site doesn't work properly with IE' message is particularly naff.

IE doesn't appear to be your only problem I would worry about getting the page to display in a user freindly manner, I opened up your site and immediately find header elements disappearing off the right edge of the viewport, oh but no scroll bar! I don't like having to resize my browser which is set to accommodate my work environment.

You might also want to remove the style tags from the external css stylesheet?

Especially so given the fact that help (as noted in the stylesheet) with the styles has been provided by so many acknowledged 'Experts' in the field!

They're already doing this but it's not going to change anything for IE6 users.

True. IE7 already addresses most of the major problems in my opinion.

Highly unlikely. They'll just ditch the broken websites.

If it's only one two two, maybe. But if developers start taking small steps to educate users, then it will help. Even on my sites that work fine in IE I'm considering adding the message. The users will have no reason to ditch the site, as it works fine, but they will have a bit more information.

I agree that it's a simple layout. I'll start threads touching on the individual problems, and we'll see if it's a simple fix as well. I'm even willing to rewrite the code from scratch so long as it displays how I want and meets accessibility requirements. There's probably a hundred different ways to code that layout.

What OS/browser/resolution? Of the problems that I have been able to identify, I haven't seen what you describe. Could you post a screenshot?

Why? Keeping them external reduces page load times as the CSS file is cached.

Especially so given the fact that help (as noted in the stylesheet) with the styles has been provided by so many acknowledged 'Experts' in the field!

Yes, I have received much help. Now I trying to stand on my own two feet. I don't wasnt to run to Sitepoint everytime I make a small change to the site. Also, now that I've added advertisements I feel a responsibility to maintain the site myself. It's not like I'm donating a portion of the revenue to Sitepoint or CSS Creator for the coding assistance.

Why? Keeping them external reduces page load times as the CSS file is cached.

I think Hugo is referring to the <style> tags in your CSS file

Just reduce your browser I never run a browser or any apps at full screen , and that goes for many others, I like to have a degree of visual access to my work, also a browser simply does not need to be larger than around 900px it's still a case that pages are best designed to accommodate smaller screens and in terms of text blocks they should never be wider than that anyway, fixed widths over 1024px are not a great idea in my opinion regardless of what people say in respect of everyone having larger high resolution screens, that's a spurious argument that omits laptop screens, pda's, mobile etc (I digress badly)

I was just slightly surprised to see the acknowledgements of help yet problems still evident in IE, did no one point out these or offer help on that?

Hugo, I'll arrange the page such that it won't be wider than 750px. I usually do that, but I had to widen this particular site to fit the radiobuttons in the google searchbox. I'll correct that, it was a quick fix and I know it should have been handled differently.

many people will argue that we should not worry too much now and many will be settling on 1024 as a resolution standard to code a site to I guess, course the option is there to design to fluid dimensions.
I was more concerned that those top bar search functions were overflowing the viewport width and were lost as the site wasn't able to scroll unless below the min-width set and even then it couldn't scroll back those elements lost.

Hugo, would you believe that it started off as a fluid design? It's because of that table in the header that I had to start fixing the size. I intend to work on that.

Other than that, how is the overall design from a user's perspective? Are the colours pleasant? Layout clear?

You've had a bit of polite stick so far in this post ...but then you mentioned the T word :scared: - careful!
Why are you using a table for the Google Search?

Have a sneaky peek at http://www.webechodesigns.com/search.htm (yes it's my site)
It's easy enough to code Google search with using tables



Search WWW Search Webecho Designs

The CSS

/* Search Google */

#google{margin-bottom:50px;}

#radio{margin-left:130px;}

fieldset{border:none;}

#submit{background-color:#dbeff0;border:1px solid #00908f;color:#00908f;}

#submit:hover{color:#ff7112;}

HTH

Fat Freddy

Hello Fatfreddy!
Just very politely butting in (and completely digressing)...
Have you looked at your site in IE6 - Seems your box border repeats a little section at the bottom!!
And continue....

Thanks, fatfreddy. I'm in the middle of a redesign that will eliminate all tables with the exception of the "Rate This" table at the end of each article. That one is a killer...

The particular table in question was used so that I could stack the "What-Is-What" and "The Web" radio buttons in the Google search code, thus demanding less horizontal space and looking nicer. If you know how I could stack them otherwise, I'd very much appreciate a tip! I've played around with floating a span and a p(aragraph) however I could not get the desired effect without pushing other form elements below the black underline.

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Don't you just hate that when you're trying to sound all knowledgable! :blushing: