Why do MAC users have a problem with the page views?

[Crystal]

When MAC OS users view my website the text and pictures run together why?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

URL?

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
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nor a lender be.

 

[Crystal Wells]

www.interimministry.org

URL?

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Neither a follower
nor a lender be.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Well, the home page looks fine. That's the URL you posted.

I dug a bit deeper (tip: make the person answering do as little work as
possible to help you, or they might lose interest), and did find one page
that had some text overwriting an image
(http://www.interimministry.org/Conference/2004 home.html) when viewed on
IE for Mac (Mac suppoprts at least 3 different browsers). I found that this
was due to the use of VML in your pages (Word Art). VML is not universally
supported, and you will get different results from different browsers when
using it.

Designing for cross-browser support is one of the most diffuclt aspects of
web development. Judging by your apparent skill level, I would advise you to
stick to using tables for all of your layout.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Neither a follower
nor a lender be.

 

[Crystal Wells]

Some of this website was developed buy using Frontpage 2000 and the problem
is only on pages that we developed using Frontpage 2003. Using tables is much
easier for me. However I used tables on the page below and the columns still
overlapped only on the Mac users.
http://www.interimministry.org/Conference/2005/Details.htm

 

[Kevin Spencer]

That page also has VML in it.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Neither a follower
nor a lender be.

 

[Jim Carlock]

The link you provided is totally hosed up in other non-MS
browsers.

This is the best suggestiong I can think of:

1) Run the page through the CSS validator. Get real familiar
with CSS. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

2) Run the page through an HTML editor. Also, program the
page according to strict w3 standards. I started out doing
everything in HTML/XML and when XHTML came around,
everything was beautifully sweet. I would suggest explicitly
putting <DOCTYPE tags on all pages for XHTML transitional.

You'll end up seeing where Microsoft DOES NOT stick
to the World Wide Web standards. And the help provided
by the validation services is outstanding. The Validator is
found here: http://validator.w3.org/

Links to both of the validators are found at their homepage.
http://www.w3.org/ ALL Internet standards are found there
as well. Some of it may take a little more time to grasp but
the validators are invaluable in my opinion and experience.

3) Download the FireFox browser for your PC and use that
to view your pages. It's a free browser that is becoming very
popular: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox.

4) w3.org also provides a FREE browser called Amaya,
which is kind of cheezy but it's worth taking a look at if
you have the time. You can find it from the link at their
homepage, and being free it's definitely worth the efforts
to take the time to use.

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Jim Carlock
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Some of this website was developed buy using Frontpage 2000 and the problem
is only on pages that we developed using Frontpage 2003. Using tables is
much
easier for me. However I used tables on the page below and the columns still
overlapped only on the Mac users.
http://www.interimministry.org/Conference/2005/Details.htm