Webpage displaying incorrectly in some browsers
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There is no way anyone can help you unless you share the source.
Further, I advise you look at other websites for inspiration on layout and colours as what you have thus far is of a very, very low standard. If you can I'd pay someone, perhaps a family friend who has some experience.
Further, I advise you look at other websites for inspiration on layout and colours as what you have thus far is of a very, very low standard. If you can I'd pay someone, perhaps a family friend who has some experience.
It probably displays incorrectly because the browser recognises the design is awful and refuses to render it. Leave the computer alone for a few minutes and take a piece of paper and a pencil to block out a design. Google around for inspiration.
There's no point polishing a turd.
There's no point polishing a turd.
Now that's frank! `
I'm a Yorkshireman. Call a spade when it's a bloody spade.
Still for something more constructive, go to the newsagents and buy some magazines. I'd suggest Wallpaper and Edge, they might be poncey but they have good design for print and it should translate well enough into web.
At the least you are trying to flog old Land Rovers so do some research as to who buys these and rob the design of the specialist press. Autotrader doesn't count.
Spend some time understanding fonts: http://www.designzzz.com/typography-basics-serif-vs-sans-serif/
Spend some time understanding colour:
http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
Once you have an understanding of those, Google up web design.
Really do you wonder why a Microsoft design program renders best in the Microsoft browser? I'm afraid fella you have a heck of a lot of reading/researching to do if you want to design and implement a website in this day and age...and I'd ditch that program sharpish as it's pants!
pssst - the url is www.landroverman.com
uses frames so is well out of date by modern web design ways of thinking...
uses frames so is well out of date by modern web design ways of thinking...
right, and now onto a positive note(!) the reason it renders badly is the width of the right hand frame is too big, so browsers try and squash it into the screen space. Frames are really a no-no these days, bad for seo, bad from a design point and it makes the website look about 10 years out of date. The page renders very quickly however, and is pretty high on google. I'd look at something like wordpress to get yourself an easy to manage cms solution and get yourself a theme and go from there.
Thanks for the constructive criticism guys, only just started on web design and has been the first thing I've really ever done. I know it looks terrible, and yes, it has gone 12 years without a design update and I've only been on to it for a few hours. Once I'm on my Christmas hols, I will start to do a proper re-design with better software (why is the Microsoft version so bad? What would you recommend to an amateur?) once I have some sound knowledge and have some time on my hands.
sorry if it comes across as harsh, but I'm with sldsmkd on being honest. A great majority of websites these days are run using CMS or content management systems like wordpress etc. You design a template or theme, and then you can edit pages/posts and they are rendered into the style you defined with the theme/template. They use php or a similiar scripting language and need a database and database server. If you then update/change the theme/template it all changes on the page without you having to edit anything.
Re: Microsoft and browser rendering, IE really shouldn't be your testing browser as 99% of the time it renders differently to the others, not the other way round. A microsoft written program to edit pages is thus going to go about things the wrong way not the right way. As I said above, if you go down the cms route, changing pages is a 5 min job rather than half an hour or more, plus if setup right, anyone can edit pages etc. with the correct user details and a paswword...thus making a site editing program redundant.
You can just install wordpress, pick a theme you like to start and add text and voila a site up and running that believe me would be 100 times better than the current one, and render pretty well across all browsers. With plugins you can then have a mobile site, twitter/facebook whatever integration and go from there...any more questions then ask away...
Re: Microsoft and browser rendering, IE really shouldn't be your testing browser as 99% of the time it renders differently to the others, not the other way round. A microsoft written program to edit pages is thus going to go about things the wrong way not the right way. As I said above, if you go down the cms route, changing pages is a 5 min job rather than half an hour or more, plus if setup right, anyone can edit pages etc. with the correct user details and a paswword...thus making a site editing program redundant.
You can just install wordpress, pick a theme you like to start and add text and voila a site up and running that believe me would be 100 times better than the current one, and render pretty well across all browsers. With plugins you can then have a mobile site, twitter/facebook whatever integration and go from there...any more questions then ask away...
