[thelist] Template Check (PM) with opinions and help with two problems, please-Correction.

[Pat Meeks]

Oops!
Correction! The URL for page is:
http://home.earthlink.net/~measureone/template/

Sorry! Pat


> I'm redoing a component distribution site and have put together the main
> template page for product info. Any opinions, suggestions, critiques and
> comments are welcome.
>
> The site must continue to serve Netscape 4x. It gets a much higher
> percentage of 4x visitors (especially on Sun systems) than most sites and
> some come in with JavaScript disabled (so I had to do some parts with
tables
> for layout).
>
> Goals: Compatibility back to NS4; Quick loading; Easy, clear navigation;
> Clean design; Good robot navigation for indexing.
>
> The problems: (1) In trying to get the tables centered with left-aligned
> text in IE6, Opera 6/7 makes the tables left-aligned. (2) The top margin
> where the search box is and the top navigation varies widely between
> browsers. I'm not looking for pixel perfect anything, but the differences
> are quite dramatic. I've been trying margins, padding, etc. but when I fix
> one browser, the other browser breaks.
>
> Design: The client likes the colors and the simplicity. I'm worried it's
> "too" plain. I'll revisit the idea of using CSS buttons every few months
> when I see the NS4x users dropping even more.
>
> The CSS has not been trimmed down and consolidated. I'll do that when the
> site is finished. The html and CSS is fully commented and the page
validates
> to XHTML 1.0 transitional.
>
> The page can be seen at:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~measureone/template/  (Corrected URL)
> Browsercam:
> Browsercam can't take full screen captures (sob), so the best I could do
was
> to take hi-res captures to try and see how the data tables look. I have no
> idea what is happening beneath the top of the first data table! I've
checked
> the pages in NS4.75, IE6.0, NS7.0 and Opera 7.11.
> http://www.browsercam.com/view.aspx?proj_id=8501
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Pat (remove TODO)
> pmeeksTODO at msn.com
>
>
>
>
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