CSS Layouts

[Melos]

I am just starting to learn how to do CSS layouts for my webpages (I made my first one last night - just a tester site!) and learned that it makes the website load a heck or a lot faster than using HTML tables. 

The problem I had, is that I designed it in Internet Explorer and it came out looking the way I planned it.  But in FIrefox it was all messed up.  WHY does it come out different in different browsers?

[ninikins]

Different browsers just mess everythign up for me. I generally work with IE in mind because it's the most used, really. It's tough to get soething that works the same in all browsers.

[Melos]

But what about all those potential customers who could be using firefox?  Its a really popular browser.  I don't even have Opera or ... can't think of the other big one right now... to test my sites.  I want the maximum number of people to be able to see my site.

[OneofaKind]

I agree with you about people using Firefox.

I use it as do an increasing number of people that I know.

[Slashmire]

Well, a good place to start asking question would be firefox's own website.  Ask those questions on the forum, and they may be able to provide you with correct tags and syntax for your layouts.

[Melos]

Now why didn't I think of that?    Thanks for the suggestion.

I began my education in CSS at www.w3schools.com and was trying to make it W3 compliant.  I figured that would be okay for all browsers, but maybe I did something wrong - entirely possible and probable!

[ninikins]

I really need to get more familiar with css. I've managed a few baic things that seem to work in all browsers but I want to take it further.

[Melos]

This is a great site for seeing what CSS can do.  It is really inspiring to make me want to learn more and more about it.

csszengarden.com

[Business Brian]

The thing is to design in both IE and Firefox, and keep checking - that way you can tweak out problems as they arise.

2c.

[4silverstrea]

This is a great site for seeing what CSS can do.  It is really inspiring to make me want to learn more and more about it.

csszengarden.com

That is a cool site! It makes you WANT to read it and it is simple. I will have to check it out more thoroughly and will get back to you!

[4silverstrea]

I am just starting to learn how to do CSS layouts for my webpages (I made my first one last night - just a tester site!) and learned that it makes the website load a heck or a lot faster than using HTML tables. 

The problem I had, is that I designed it in Internet Explorer and it came out looking the way I planned it.  But in FIrefox it was all messed up.  WHY does it come out different in different browsers?

This is a major problem all around..although CSS is supposed to help that problem. I believe is was a few years ago when all of the browser developers got together and decided to make a standard so this wouldn’t happen. IE is really behind so I would go with Firefox since a programmer told me it was the most compliant and that IE will continue to pose problems as CSS develops in the future.