and then there is Firefox

Its not too bad trying to optimize for both IE and Netscape but Firefox is
really throwing my stuff around the page. Especially buttons and layers. Its
not like I see alot of distorted websites when I use FF so Its probably
something Im doing. Anyone else have this problem? Any advice or a good
resource would be appreciated.

Post a link to a page of yours and we can try to take a look at what you are doing and what could be causing problems.

I dont have a link but I can tell you I created a web page in photo impact
with layered images and some text. Converted to html. Once I open it in DW I
draw a layer and inserta flash button or nav bar component. These shift
verticaly when I preview. If I create a column to the left of the image and
insert flash button, it shifts vertically as well. Im sure this is not the
most efficient way to do this but as I experiment I learn.

"SnakEyez" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Post a link to a page of yours and we can try to take a look at what you
are doing and what could be causing problems.

I've been having the same problem. The machine I initially did my site
on just had IE6 on and the site lined up fine. I could even press F12
and expect it to look close to what I saw in DW. But then I checked it
on IE5 and the horizontal spacing was screwed. Then in Mozilla and
Firefox the vertical spacing was screwed but the horizontal was ok. IE5
also screws with the height of containers as you can see from my text
box.

I'm also trying to get text to over lap a frame boundary which looks
right in DW and IE6 but Mozilla and Firefox just won't allow it.

I've tried the Holly hack to try and ensure positioned boxes go where
they're supposed to bu it doesn't seem to be working for me yet. Its
not as if I'm doing anything complicated.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zogthedoomed/

And by all accounts its not a problem with Firefox. It a problem with
IE. The general concensus seems to be that you should code for
Mozilla/firefox and then and hacks to get it to work in IE since the
Gecko implementation of CSS is more accurate than Microsofts
deliberately altered one. Am I jumping to conclusions about you using
CSS?


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"Photo Impact" sound like a graphics editor to me! Make your graphics in
a graphics editor and do your html in an html editor... like DW.

Kim

mohamed hassanain wrote:

I dont have a link but I can tell you I created a web page in photo impact
with layered images and some text. Converted to html. Once I open it in DW I
draw a layer and inserta flash button or nav bar component. These shift
verticaly when I preview. If I create a column to the left of the image and
insert flash button, it shifts vertically as well. Im sure this is not the
most efficient way to do this but as I experiment I learn.

"SnakEyez" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cn6lgc$t4l$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...

Post a link to a page of yours and we can try to take a look at what you

are doing and what could be causing problems.

mohamed hassanain wrote:

I dont have a link but I can tell you I created a web page in photo impact
with layered images and some text. Converted to html. Once I open it in DW I
draw a layer and inserta flash button or nav bar component. These shift
verticaly when I preview. If I create a column to the left of the image and
insert flash button, it shifts vertically as well.

Firefox is probably the most compliant and stable browser available.
Actually, it is.

Im sure this is not the
most efficient way to do this but as I experiment I learn.

When someone says something like that, it usually means "I'm too lazy
and impatient to read a book. I think I'm so good I can understand this
anyway". My bet is that it'll take you 10 times longer - at least - to
wrap your head around this if that's your approach.

Get a book, find tutorials, check out the MM site for classes, check out
your library.

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you can ask here! (get Skype at http://skype.com)

Well I've just cured some of my cross browser missalignment problems by
ensuring I had margin: 0px in the body definitions. How annoying is
that.


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It is generally too bad when programs other than true web building programs
offer you a chance to save as html, like you've experienced with Photo
Impact. FrontPage users are often trying to use pages made in Publisher. In
both cases the pages are usually dreadful with yucky code and problems all
over the place. Don't be further tempted to use PI that way. Make your
graphics there but use Dreamweaver to properly build your pages.
Eleanor
Beware of "Converting" to HTML!

"mohamed hassanain" <webpresence (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

I dont have a link but I can tell you I created a web page in photo impact
with layered images and some text. Converted to html. Once I open it in DW
I
draw a layer and inserta flash button or nav bar component. These shift
verticaly when I preview. If I create a column to the left of the image
and
insert flash button, it shifts vertically as well. Im sure this is not
the
most efficient way to do this but as I experiment I learn.

"SnakEyez" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cn6lgc$t4l$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Post a link to a page of yours and we can try to take a look at what you
are doing and what could be causing problems.

Also have padding set to 0px

so you have:

body {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}

what other sorts of alignment problems are you having? Are you using tables
or layers (divs)?
It may be useful to post a link to your problem page so some help can be
offered.

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Well I've just cured some of my cross browser missalignment problems by
ensuring I had margin: 0px in the body definitions. How annoying is
that.


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