wayneswhirld

In GL CS, I created a website using an 800 pixel wide table aligned horizontally with a tiled background. For me it shows as aligning properly in Safari 3.1.2 and Firefox 3.0.1. However, in Internet Explorer 5.2, it misaligns vertically by a few pixels. Is there something I can do to assure alignment across all browsers and platforms? Should I be building this in a different way? Or is just a matter of an antiquated browser?

Please take a look: <http://www.waynemichaud.com/portfolio/>

murray

Are you *REALLY* worried about IE5.2? That browser has been in the mortuary
for quite a while, now. Do your session logs show any visitors using it?

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Murray

jonfritz

IE for Mac is an extremely antiquated browser. There have been no updates to functionality for many years (I'm guessing they kept up with security updates for a little while anyway). I don't think you can even download it from Microsoft anymore.

wayneswhirld

Thank you...I'm somewhat relieved by your responses. I'm just hoping it's otherwise consistent in all other cir***stances. As to visitors, It's been up for two days and has two visits! But that's something I'll deal with soon by getting the word out and using meta tags which I haven't done yet.

On a related alignment issue, why does the Contact, Etc. page jump to the left a pixel or 2 compared to the other 3 pages? The tables and images are all the same (I believe).

<http://waynemichaud.com/portfolio/contact.index.html>

kath_howard3

Meta-tags - concentrate on your page titles, a decent description tag, and then think what words people might use to find your site and make sure they are on the page as live text. Different description tag and page title for each page, keep it relevant. And get other relevant sites to link to yours as much as possible.

murray

If you're thinking meta tags are going to do this job for you, then you need
to read some more. The major search engines ignore meta keywords (and they
should) since you can say anything you want to in them without regard for
what is actually on the page. The real power methods for search engine
optimization involve fine-tuning (i.e., the use of page content specific
keywords and phrases) -

1. The page's title tag
2. The page's semantic markup, specifically the <h1> through <h6> tag
contents
3. The content on the page, and its location with respect to the page
length
4. The filenames linked to from the page
5. The incoming links from other highly ranked sites

Everything else is small potatoes.

What browser are you seeing the jump in?

And by the way, are you sure you want to use contact.index.html as a file
naming system?

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Murray

wayneswhirld

Kath and Murray, thanks for the suggestions, very helpful.

Murrray, I'm seeing the jump in both Safari and Firefox. As to contact.index.html, I'm going to change that page to ABOUT and make CONTACT just an email link. But why would contact.index.html be a problem?

murray

It's just an unusual nomenclature (I think) to have multiple instances of
"." in a filename. Of course, since making my last post, I have seen
several other usages like yours! So, it seems to be working OK....

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Murray