I designed a site with frontpage and can view it great in Internet Explorer but not Firefox, what do i do?

Question

I designed a site with frontpage and can view it great in Internet Explorer but not Firefox, what do i do?

Answer 1

You should ensure there is no errors in your code and design your sites for Firefox or Opera. Internet explorer will be ok if firefox is ok

Answer 2

You need to use HTML standard compliant code. Both Microsoft Frontpage and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are badly broken and non standard. Code up everything properly first so that it works in a standards compliant browser, like Firefox, then add hacks for IE. IE8 will start to address this problem, but that is a little way off.

Answer 3

It all depends HOW you designed your site in FrontPage, what version you used, and what tools you used within FP. To give exact help we need your link. FP is perfectly cabable of producing compliant code, you just have to know which buttons NOT to press. Turn off the formatting/common toolbar, don't use any fp bots apart from Page Includes. If you are not using FP03, we would have to know the version your using.

This tutorial might help

http://accessfp.net/frontpage-2003/tutor...

Have you thought of using Expression Web 2.0? You can upgrade, and there is a sixty day trial to try out. EW is the successor to FP. Do not use hacks where you can avoid it, producing code that works in most browser is the best practice. As I said we really need your url.

Tina

Answer 4

Using FrontPage writes a lot of Microsoft specific schema which only IE understands.  If you are not properly coding your page, Firefox will show you your page exactly as it was coded and, with FrontPage, it's going to be bad.

Just try validating your code and you'll see all the errors:

http://validator.w3.org/

Ron

Answer 5

Generally its the other way around, this look as they should in Firefox but not IE.

Thankfully, Firefox has a bunch of awesome web developer add-ons you should download.

The most important one for you would be the "Web Developer" add-on, it allows you to modify the HTML and CSS while seeing the changes happen in Firefox. You should also grab the FireBug add-on.