Website Balance...

[robot180]

I never thought about it, but I use pixels for fonts. I'll have to update myself on this stuff again. I know that and heard several people say that div tags are better and I made the last two versions of our team's website with div tags, but both times, they caused so many problems that I ended up disecting the coding and switching to tables. The tables work perfectly, even though they load slower, it works better. I think that div tags have to be developed more before I will start using them.

The worst is when I put an image in a div tag that is larger then the division. I set the div width to a certain width and the image to 100%. The image, in some browsers, tries to be 100% of the entire page, but is moved to the right, or where ever the div is, and a left/right scroll bar is used. When I use tables, images always work correctly. I can use percents with images in tables and for the tables so the page resizes for different resolutions. If anyone has tips for me on this, PM me or email me or something.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by robot180

The image, in some browsers, tries to be 100% of the entire page, but is moved to the right, or where ever the div is, and a left/right scroll bar is used.

That's why I really wish companies like Microsoft would actually make their browsers W3C standards compliant. This way when your making a major site, you don't have to work extra for their lack of sensibility.

[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

That's why I really wish companies like Microsoft would actually make their browsers W3C standards compliant. This way when your making a major site, you don't have to work extra for their lack of sensibility.

IE7.0 will be 100% CSS 1 & 2 compliment and maybe 3 complient.

Its not in that link, but its what I've heard from a couple reliable places.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

I check my forms with PHP. The user can't get around me now. hah!

Any thing which actually matters is done through PHP, but the Javascript is just there as a convience to users so that they get quick feedback.

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

Just out of curiosity...why do you guys choose XHTML over HTML? I know it's supposed to be neater and a lot of codes don't work, etc. But what are the actual benefits? Or do you just like saying you use XHTML ?

I use it because it's the standard and helps to ensure greater compatibility. And yes, saying XHTML is more fun.

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

Something else I forgot to ask about...what resolution do you design for? I design for 1024 x 768 (and it'll always look good in 1280 x 1024 too since thats my default). But i tend to not give much thought to 800 x 600. A fault I know, I'm trying to solve this by using CSS layouts now instead of tables, etc. But, anyway, what do you do?

I design for "any" resolution through CSS, but generally it has to look good on 800x600 for me to be happy. As with my use of XHTML over normal HTML, I aim for as high a level of compatibility as possible. I'm pround to say that every website I design can bear the W3C CSS and HTML (usually XHTML, but sometimes...) logos...

And as a side note, I find the HTML Tidy Firefox extension an invaluable tool for creating perfect code.