looks messed up in Dreamweaver

[grammy]

Hi, I am using Dreamweaver 4, so that might be the problem; let me know if it is. I cannot afford to upgrade.

After I finished your first CSS lesson, the first time I have tried CSS, I opened it up in Dreamweaver, and it didn't look correct. The Main Heading and Main Navagation headings are overlapping. When I open it in the browser, it looks alright. I tried your mypracticehtms.htm file, and that had the same result in Dreamweaver.

What do you think?

[falkencreative]

Don't worry about that -- Dreamweaver's Design view doesn't always display accurately. Trust what your browser shows you, not what Dreamweaver shows you. This is especially true for old versions of Dreamweaver -- the latest versions, CS3 and CS4 -- do a better job (though, again, they aren't always perfect).

[administrator]

Always test in the browsers.

 

The 'design view' in Dreamweaver is only there to give you an idea (a good idea though ...) of what the page will look like in the browsers. F12 is your friend in Dreamweaver - it pops open your browser so you can see your page as it actually looks. But you have to set this in the preferences.

 

In terms of what browsers to test with, you always want to go with the browsers that are being used by the public. These days, that's:

 

• IE 8
  
• IE 7
  
• IE 6
  
• Firefox on Windows and Mac
  

 

If your site looks good in Firefox, it should work in most other browsers (not including IE6, and IE7).

 

Stefan

[grammy]

OK, thank you....on to the next part of the lessons. I am very slow having to do things over and over...and of course, it needs to be perfect. Talk to you later I am sure.

I love your tutorial...it works for me.

Grammy

[amitte]

I love your tutorial...it works for me.

Grammy

 

 

hy stefan.. i'd like to strengthen grammy on this... i'm here over a year now... these days more than ever.. hope to join your university soon..

 

 

about Browsers and Os check... do u (or anyone) can post a good link for that?

 

thanks

[falkencreative]

http://browsershots.org/ can be useful, though you do have to wait based on how many people are using the website

https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html is similar, though it requires a free Adobe account, and you don't really have to wait. You can test different versions of Firefox, IE, Safari and Chrome.

 

I personally use MultipleIEs, a program that allows you to install multiple versions of IE on your computer. http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE. I believe some use IETester: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

 

I usually test for compatibility in IE6, 7 and 8, the latest version of Firefox, and briefly in Opera/Safari/Chrome. Usually if it works in Firefox it works in those three browsers. I have a mac, so I can use VMWareFusion to run multiple OSs at a time, allowing me to test in Windows browsers (IE specifically) easily.

[administrator]

I love your tutorial...it works for me.

 

Glad you liked it.

 

BTW, I am about to release new video tutorials to the killersites university this week.

 

Stefan