Site does not display properly in IE

[maplelanesales.com]

I used Publisher 2003 to design my site www.maplelanesales.com, it displays
fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer the design template is all messed
up. I've tried to update my IE versison (just downloaded the latest
yesterday), updated all my services packs, tried changing encoding, unchecked
png and vml options but nothing seems to make a difference. I've not yet
compressed my pictures which I know would make it load faster, but I'm really
looking for a solution on the template/design issues. Any suggestions
appreciated. I use the publish to the web option in publisher and then ftp
the index file and supporting index folder to my service provider.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

One suggestion; tell us what's messed up! Looks good in IE7 & FF



message |I used Publisher 2003 to design my site www.maplelanesales.com, it displays
| fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer the design template is all
messed
| up. I've tried to update my IE versison (just downloaded the latest
| yesterday), updated all my services packs, tried changing encoding,
unchecked
| png and vml options but nothing seems to make a difference. I've not yet
| compressed my pictures which I know would make it load faster, but I'm
really
| looking for a solution on the template/design issues. Any suggestions
| appreciated. I use the publish to the web option in publisher and then
ftp
| the index file and supporting index folder to my service provider.
| Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[DavidF]

Like Rob, the site looks pretty close to the same in IE 6 and FF for me,
except for the size of the images, which does change your spacing.
Compressing your images might take care of that problem. You have probably
identified your own solution.

Publisher produces a number of copies of each image that you insert into
your Pub doc, when you Publish to the Web and produce the html. The goal is
to serve up the best image depending on what browser is used...with mixed
results. Right now FF loads more quickly, and shows one of the copies of
your inserted images, rather than the original image. IE tries to load your
original image within the confines of your image box. Though the image
version loaded by FF is smaller, it loads "bigger". And though the image
version loaded by IE is much larger, and takes much longer to load, it loads
"smaller". How do you like all that technical talk? Clear as mud, right? Let
me illustrate...

Open you home page in IE, and below your vertical navbar you have an image
of a couple horses in a meadow. If you open your home page in FF and compare
that image, it appears larger in size than in IE. Here is the image that is
loading in FF:
http://www.maplelanesales.com/index_files/image4301.jpg
which is the same size as it is displayed on your home page in FF.
Here is the image that is displayed in IE:
http://www.maplelanesales.com/index_files/image430.jpg
which is obviously much larger than displayed, and is probably a more exact
copy of the image that you inserted.

If you compress your images, Publisher will resize and resample your
inserted images to fit into the picture box as you have it drawn on your Pub
doc, and should then serve up the same size image in both IE and FF, and the
spacing will be better...as will the load time.

If the spacing is still off, then you need to resize and optimize your
images in an image editing program before you insert the images into your
Pub file. And then you need to be sure you are displaying them at 100% size.
Select the image in Publisher, Format > Picture > Size tab and under Scale
make sure the Height and Width are at 100%.

If you are talking about something else than the spacing difference caused
by the different size images, then post back. Also note that you bottom
navbar does not work in FF...there is a workaround for that in case you are
interested.

DavidF

 

[maplelanesales.com]

Thank you to both of you, I am stumped...when I and a couple of other
"testers" load the page with IE, the lines go through the text boxes on most
pages, and the menu bar text gets cutoff. I think the second maybe is
related to all your information in the true size of things getting loaded
with IE. David, I will review your post in detail and try to incorporate any
thoughts that will make it better. As far as the formatting I'll have to
keep looking and see if I am just missing something on my end! Thanks again
for checking -- glad to hear it looks ok to some!

 

[DavidF]

Though it probable won't help, run the design checker under tools.

My guess is that you are viewing the site on a widescreen laptop, that is
set to a non-standard resolution. Try right clicking your desktop >
Properties > Settings (what is the screen resolution set at?) > Advanced and
change the DPI to 96. OK.

DavidF

 

[maplelanesales.com]

David:

Good Guess...I am using a wide-screen laptop! I am going to do as you
suggest now and see if that helps me. I did run design checker...it didn't
seem to find anything that helped but it did find a few things to tweak.
Thanks again for all the good tips.

 

[DavidF]

This may or may not help, but someone a whole heck of lot smarter than I
posted this solution to the problems he was getting with his wide screen
laptop. Maybe you will understand what he is saying:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...974?lnk=gst&q=96+dpi&rnum=29#dbb742a2cd633974

Actually, I hope that just changing to 96 dpi worked ;-)

DavidF