firefox is out to get me...

[jefito]

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make a website Firefox friendly? It will not display my pages correctly. They have a gripe forum for people whose sites don't work called Firefox "Evangelism" but don't offer any suggestions. Has anybody encountered this, and if so, what can be done?

Thanks!
Jeff

[VerbatimEB]

I wish I could help! I have the same problem with a couple of my sites. Thank goodness my clients sites have, so far, turned out good in firefox, knock on wood!

I would love to have some help on this myself. Great question!

Verb :)

[jefito]

Well after some intensive research, I found some great links which I have provided at the bottom. The first thing is to get your site validated. There are lots of free links to test it. They don't repair it, but they test it. I downloaded a free validator- "CSE Validator Lite v8.0", but the "Lite" free version only finds about 60% errors. However, it lets you repair what it does find, and it's extremely easy to use.
There might be better free ones out there. I would try www.tucows.com. It has a ton of freeware.

I hope any of this helps.

Jeff

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abfaq.shtml

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html

[Support_EL]

I think anyone would need to see the website you are referring to in order to offer any input. Maintaining a design that appears well in most browsers can be difficult but typically Firefox does a nice job displaying websites. Thanks for the references and information you did provide.

[jefito]

This is my site: if you have firefox, please check it out to see how badly it displays-especially with changing font colors, faces and sizes. I can't edit the html in WE (or can I?) so I can't fix it.

http://www.jeffs60s.com

[jefito]

Here's another good link, the first truly good one I've found yet. They advocate that you build your site for Firefox first and give tips on how.


http://webdesign.about.com/od/internetexplorer/a/aa082906.htm

[Support_EL]

Jefito,

I think you need to run this over to tech support. The site appears to be in pretty good condition with only some oddities but it would take reviewing the album file to narrow down the cause, and you don't want to post that file for everyone :D

[Dave Koehler]

I just put IE and FF side by side. I can't see anything different between the two. I only did the opening page though. Perhaps the temp files need dumped on your computer?

Dave Koehler
www.koehlerinjection.com

[jefito]

How do I submit my album for tech support to look at?

and thanks Dave, I already emptied the cache.


Here are 2 of the worst pages.

http://www.jeffs60s.com/jeffs60s_031.htm
http://www.jeffs60s.com/jeffs60s_032.htm

[Dave Koehler]

Yup, Ok 31 is quite a bit different/off. I noticed that you are still using version 5. You may want to spend the cheap 30-40 bucks and upgrade. 6 and 7 got a whole lot better about problems like this. 6 was a good upgrade and 7 refined quite a few things. Anyway I would upgrade before spending any more time on it.

Dave Koehler

[jefito]

I'm using version 5 because it's the only version that works. I've sent numerous emails to support, only to get the same pasted in answers from the help menu which I've already tried. In short, WE 6 is useless to me, and I seriously doubt that 7 is any better. I built a corporate website after they bought version 6. they want page transitions, but they will not work. So, I have to try and figure it out on my own. It's very frustrating.

However, I went back to writing my own html and am happy to say that I have been able to work with Firefox. Some pages have been repaired. I'm still working on the ohters. p.31 is looking the way I want it now.

Here are the problems I've encountered with WE6 after 4 reinstalls:

Page effects and transitions don't work.
Linking to specific spots on a page don't work.
Audio files will not play.
Links change colors to dark purple even after using the inspector, build menu, and voodoo. I had to create my own links in html.
text formatting doesn't work, and if it does, it changes colors arbitrarily.

So basically, I'm just using the program to display pictures. Dreamweaver is next.

[Support_EL]

Page transitions are actually not supported by most browsers these days so we still offer them but they are not used much by developers anymore since few browsers display them.

The only issue with audio files not playing is if there is spaces in the file name. Some servers fail to recognize the HTML convention for replacing a file name space so we recommend not using spaces in file names to prevent this.

You can use the help section 'defining default link behavior' to help set the appearance of links when using HTML w/CSS as your build format.

Arbitrary color changes in text is usually due to having brought the text in as a cut and paste from another source. When you do this you may bring over HTML fomatting tags. The easiest solution is to convert the text from rich to plain text to remove any formatting, then return it to rich text to create the formatting changes desired.

Good luck :)