Go.DriveEV.com

[XJnick]

Hi,

It has been a while since I've asked posted my site, http://www.DriveEV.com/ for review here, but I'm posting it again because I just began using javascript to get around the CSS problem with 100% height columns (so the menu background will be the height of the page).

I'm mainly interested in hearing how the site looks in different browsers on different platforms. I've tested it in Mozilla Firefox 0.8 in Windows & Linux, and IE 5.5, & IE 6 (on windows, of course). I haven't tested Safari, Konqueror, Opera, Netscape, etc...

I'd like to hear any thoughts or feedback about layout, how it renders in your browser, fonts, etc...

There are probably still some spelling errors here or there, so just ignore them for now.

Thanks :D

[YvetteKuhns]

http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html

You can view how your site looks in different versions of IE and Netscape as well as WebTV. While it is not nice to generalize, I will mention that your site's target audience may attract many WebTV users. My sister maintains an automotive website that gets numerous responses from WebTV users, so this may interest you.

http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx

For a buck a URL, you can view your website appearance on any operating system platform.

There are other things you can use if people do not test in each browser and post here AND you don't want to install every browser. But you can simply wait for JJ who has 14 different browsers installed (I think)!

[XJnick]

Thanks for the links.

Browsercam.com was great. However, I noticed some problems with my site in IE 4, IE 5, & Netscape 4.7. Here are the screen shots from browsercam.com:

http://www.driveev.com/temp/ie4.jpg
http://www.driveev.com/temp/ie5.jpg
http://www.driveev.com/temp/ns47.jpg

IE 4 has the content shoved to the right, IE 4 & 5 have huge text (should be smaller) on the menu causing some items to take up two lines and look bad, and NS 4.7 is just not showing the page any where near correctly.

AnyBrowser.com did not show my page content correctly, and showed my page like netscape 4.7 did on browsercam.com did. The question is what is causing this? My guess would be it is that these older browsers don't like the CSS & DIVs or something? Maybe my CSS is not completely correct?

Thanks again :D

[YvetteKuhns]

Older browsers did/do not support CSS, but most people do not use older browsers. Check your webstats to see which browsers and versions your visitors use. Most of mine use IE6, IE 5.5, IE 5, with a few using Netscape or Mozilla.

There is no way to have 100% compatibility with all browsers, so don't kick yourself over it. Just do what works for the majority and be sure that the most important elements of the website do work for most/all.

[tacimala]

If you are worried about traffic from search engines, you might want to get rid of the splash page you are using and just use the main page as your index.