In need of some help.....PLZ

[Ladilee]

Hi, I'm new to these boards and before asking my questions I would just like to say that I'm so glad to finally find a place to come to for help. I've learned a lot by just reading your questions and replies.....ths is a great site!

Okay, now for putting myself out there and probably sounding pretty stupid to most of you...... :)

I'm in the middle of building a website for a friend (using dreamweaver) and have come across a few things that have me stumped.

1. When I check target browsers I'm finding that in all browsers the following is not supported. "<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">" (or I think it's the "type" attribute that isn't supported) What can I do to set that right? and because it's not supported, will the browsers not render my page properly?

2. I've been told not to use layers because most browsers can't read them or they don't read them in the same way. Although all the research I've done tells me that "tables" cause more problems. Can someone give me the "real" truth on that?

3. This one makes me the most crazy! While viewing my page in IE, it looks great. But Netscape screws it all up. I'm aware of the design issues between browsers, but how can I make atleast IE and Netscape read my page the same, or somewhat close to the same?

4. This one makes me as crazy as the last....how can I make my page resize when the browser is resized? Layers are set as "absolute" in DW.....how can I change them to relative...and would that solve that problem??

Thank you SO MUCH in advance for any help you can give me. I know I probably sound pretty stupid lol, but it's not so much stupidity as it is "learning" (I hope!) :)

Ladi

[Vladdy]

IMHO, if you want to do it right you have to do it yourself...
....loose the DreamWeaver, Notepad is all you need to create a web site.......

[lacrypta]

get rid of the type
type="text/JavaScript"

then it should work:confused:

[joh6nn]

which version of netscape are you talking about? 4, or 6? there's not a whole lot you can do about netscape 4. it's just a bad browser. however, if you design your pages so that they look good in netscape 6, then they should look pretty ok in explorer.

what you've been hearing about "layers" is in reference to the netscape 4 layer tag, not css. using css is fine, but don't use the layer tag; it only works in netscape 4, and it doesn't work well in netscape 4. tables are almost always misused. they were never intended to be layout elements. however, they work, which is always a plus, so while using them isn't a good thing, it's also not a bad thing.

in order to get your pages to scale with the window size, you have to use percentages, not fixed sizes. so instead of telling dreamweaver to make something 40px x 100px, set it to 20% x 50%, or whatever the right size should be. ( the obvious exception is elements, like pictures, that have fixed sizes. )

you can leave this alone: type="text/JavaScript"> . browsers are supposed to ignore anything they don't understand, and even though most browsers don't currently understand that, it is correct.

[justame]

/me just a whispers® to joh...
"quote.... it's just a bad browser...endquote"

no wonnnder /me just a loves® netscrap...
its just a browser® hehehe