Topic: It's alive... But has Issues.

Ok I though I finally finished my web project:

www.nationaldodgeball.com

But I ran into slight problem. I just happend to open the site on my boss's mac laptop, running AOL's under OS9, version 5, which I think is Netscape 5. Only display much of my content that was using basic CSS, is screwed up. Now I expected some issuse with older browsers but, it appears to shift oddly.

Now the site appears fine Firefox, IE 5+ mac / pc display just fine, haven't tried opera, but I will download it now. Is this a Simply a Mac Netscape 5 /CSS issue, What is the current client for AOL users on Mac and PC, and should I worry.

I guess my stats will tell the tale, our old site did get much mac traffic so if that's the case I am not too worried.

If any of you happen to have, AOL client under 0SX, PC, and a spare moment could you give it a try. I also realy need to know if it works under Safari, but I can run to the apple store to check it there.

I'm not the designer, so I have little to do with that, but any feedback would apprecatied.

I should say, shame on me, I did use a few tables for the bulk layout and some CMS added item. I know, bad web developer, bad.... Yes I am weak.


J. Stuart J.

The way to fix the browser degradation issue is to have 2 different style sheets, a basic CSS1 sheet that contains only the basic basic formatting, and this is the one you <link> the other one you import with the style declairation <style>@import "";</style>

Older browsers will used the linked sheet, while newer browsers will use the link and imported sheets.

I don't have much time to look into your code, but it seems really messy. In the first line code block you have a <Meta as opposed to <meta. You have tons and tons of divs with separate ID's and then have an a link, it seems a bit overkill. Missing the separation of content from style? I would call it IDitus as opposed to classitus. I am sure you can clean your code up. You also throw a ton of tables in there everywhere. Your code just isn't what I would expect.

I wouldn't expect the code to look like that because the design is so nice, they normally go hand in hand. Good code, good design. You might want to spend some time cleaning up the edges of the dodgeball, but other than that it looks like a solid design. Just work on your code. The design is solid but structurally simple, and you code should reflect this simplicity of your content structure, and place your graphical complexity into the style sheets.

Dan @ Code Town

Thanks, for the advice. I didn't know you could do that. I will be working on my personal site next, that technique should prove useful.

Just wondering, If included ID's for the major, and link elements in the base template, just in case I need to referance them later on. Should this not have been done?

Perhaps there's somthing I can take for IDitus, a cream perhaps, or a patch.

I will atempt to clean-up the code a bit more, Thou I'm not finding it as easy as I would like as, much of it's embeded in ASP templates. Hopefully I will beable to clean up the rest content pages.

J. Stuart J.