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**n1kk1** · 09-05-2009, 10:46 AM

Hi, im just developing my first website and would really appreciate some feedback and help. I'm having trouble with making it compatible across all browsers, I've tested safari and Firefox but it does not seem to open on IE. Im using dreamweaver and have fixed the issues it gave me when running the browser checker but it still does not open in all browsers, my code is probably all over the place so an expert eye would be great!

I also can't position my index page to be the same as my image galleries - can someone please help me with this!

www.artandescape.com

I've designed it in dreamweaver on a mac and have used jquery if anyone needs this info.

Thanks
nikki

**aldor** · 09-05-2009, 12:23 PM

Hi, I have just looked at your site using IE8 and Firefox 3.5.2 on a PC running windows Vista and noticed no difference.

As you say your code is pretty messy, you might want to run it through the W3C validator here: http://validator.w3.org/

Good luck.

**LadynRed** · 09-05-2009, 02:53 PM

Your <head> tag is not CLOSED.
You cannot put <div>s inside of a <ul>
Content inside a UL MUST be inside a <li></li> tag

Code:

<h4>contact us <br /><br /><h5>gallery</h5>
                 <h6>Art &amp; Escape<br />23-25 Barnet Road<br /> EN6</h6> <br/>

                 <h5>telephone</h5> 
                 <h6>07503302208 / 07791075458</h6><br/>
                 <h5>email</h5> <h6>info@artandescape.com</h6>

That is completely inappropriate usage of heading tags, those are not HEADINGS!

Your code isn't anywhere NEAR XHTML Strict, so I suggest you drop it back to HTML4.01 Strict since you clearly have no idea how to code to XHTML strict.

Validate your code, as noted, and learn how to code HTML w/o DW doing it for you.

**n1kk1** · 09-05-2009, 03:47 PM

ok thanks for the feedback, I did build a website in text editor to get a rasp of HTML beforehand but I have only been learning this for a week so it's not all going to sink in straight away!

I will put your changes through and run it through the validator so thats great

My other problem is the website does not pick up my jquery files, I have copied over the js file where they are saved to the web but the link is not picking it up - any ideas why this would be happening?

**LadynRed** · 09-08-2009, 04:01 PM

The js files need to be in the root directory of the site the way you have it coded now.

In addition to that, you are missing the opening <body> tag following the </head>