Website Design Forum

**ato_hayley** · 04:58 PM

Hi,

I've been told by someone that my website is pretty messed up when viewing it through mozilla firefox. I don't know why? I designed it with dreamweaver 8...

Any help is appreciated, please reply in simple terms

!

Whilst there, feel free to review it's design, I'm building it as and when I get time.

www.airtalentonline.co.uk OR www.airtalentonline.com

Cheers all!

**blue-dreamer** · 01-08-2007, 06:51 PM

With all due respect if you create a page in MS Word what do you expect? You should first correct all the coding errors - http://validator.w3.org/ and then review it again.

**vangogh** · 01-08-2007, 06:59 PM

I'm not sure what it's supposed to look like in Firefox, but I'm not seeing it all messed up. Seems to be working. Do you know what specifically might not be working?

One thing though is that just because you use DreamWeaver it doesn't automatically mean the page will work well in Firefox or IE for that matter. DreamWeaver is a tool, but it won't automatically make things perfect.

**LadynRed** · 01-08-2007, 09:18 PM

I have to agree with Blue-Dreamer, if you create a site with MS Word, you're going to get trash that only works correctly with IE.

In addition, your embeded flash menu will not work for people using IE until they go thru the 'activation' nonsense. You have to get rid of that <embed> tag. There is a sticky at the top of the html forum here that lists several methods for getting rid of <embed>.

**travelagent** · 01-09-2007, 12:42 AM

Learn how to use an HTML Editor -- MSWord is a WORD PROCESSOR -- not an HTML Editor for creating websites.

**ato_hayley** · 01-09-2007, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by blue-dreamer

With all due respect if you create a page in MS Word what do you expect? You should first correct all the coding errors - http://validator.w3.org/ and then review it again.

Thank you, I will check that out....I only used Word at the verrrrry beginning, a good few months ago since I was editing a template which automatically opened in Word. Then I bought Dreamweaver and edited the template so it doesn't look at all like the template now...I didn't realise it would still cause problems because I've obviously saved it again since, in Dreamweaver.

Having said that, I did a <HTML Tag Clean-up> in Dreamweaver, is that worth another go or is it pretty useless?

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Do you know what specifically might not be working?

Apparently, Females -> American (http://www.airtalentonline.co.uk/americanfemales.htm) has a few pages in between each name, and all text has huge gaps.

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In addition, your embeded flash menu will not work for people using IE until they go thru the 'activation' nonsense. You have to get rid of that <embed> tag. There is a sticky at the top of the html forum here that lists several methods for getting rid of <embed>

Again, was unaware since I didn't design that bit - someone on here did. Thank you for your help!

**LadynRed** · 01-09-2007, 10:56 AM

Actually, Dreamweavers Word clean-up utility does a pretty fair job of stripping out the MS garbage.

**vangogh** · 01-09-2007, 03:56 PM

The gaps are because of all the <pre> tags wrapped around the media files you're trying to embed. <pre> is for preformatting what's inside and the tags are holding a large space for the files you're trying to embed.

I think if you remove the <pre> tags you'll find the gaps disappear with them.