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my website looks rubbish in safari

Posted 31 January 2012 - 05:12 AM

Hi all,

im new to creating websites so i appear to be making plenty of mistakes, some i can fix others i cant.....

please can you check the coding on my website to see where the problem is?

I am unable to get my website to look as nice as it does in IE in Safari(Looks bad)

Here is a link to my site

www.unicorn-huntersband.co.uk/home.html

Please could someone check the code and get back to me

Regards

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 06:10 AM

Use Divs instead of tables. Tables are not for layouts, they are for tabular data. I would recommend reading this: http://learn.shayhow...y-syntax-intro/

Research semantic markup.

I would suggest reading the following books:

HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide: With XHTML and CSS
http://www.amazon.co...28015694&sr=8-3

Or

CSS: The Missing Manual
http://www.amazon.co...8015765&sr=8-22

Or anything by Dan Cederhol

Such as Handcrafted CSS
http://www.amazon.co...28015834&sr=8-3

<body background="./Uh1.jpg" bgcolor="#333333"</>


Depreciated not valid anyway. Use CSS for setting the body image.

body{background:#333 url(path/to/image.jpg)}


For the menu, use an Unordered list for this (UL, LI).

<font face="helvetica"<font color="#990000"><P align="center"No shows currently available, Keep checking back</P>


Wrap paragraphs in P tags. And style them via CSS. Don't use inline depreciated tags such as Font etc.

I would recommend learning to handcode HTML and CSS and not use a generator, as they're prone to generating a lot of junk.

This way you can learn how to markup the document and style it, as well as checking if everything validates.

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 06:39 AM

Lemur has written a series that is perfect for beginners. When you can write fairly well but want to be even better, check out CSS Wizardry.
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 06:56 AM

I would also look in to browser compatibility issues as these can also make a website look great in one web browser and poor in another and sometimes not work at all.

I would also look at http://www.w3schools.com/ as they provide some good examples of CSS, html divs and other things that will be useful and it's all free!

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 06:56 AM

Thank you for your reply... i do need to learn css... Im on with HTML.. I guess i have just copied and pated a few thinga when i shouldnt have..
Do you know any good tutorial sites for css?
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 07:00 AM

View Postdudelucas, on 31 January 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

Thank you for your reply... i do need to learn css... Im on with HTML.. I guess i have just copied and pated a few thinga when i shouldnt have..
Do you know any good tutorial sites for css?



http://www.w3schools.com/ has some good CSS tutorials, it is also good for html, Javascript and loads of other web based languages. Enjoy :)
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 07:18 AM

Thank you again for the posts i will check those books and order a copy. I am Just stuggling to get my head around CSS for some reason aswel. ive looked at it and it has puzzled me.. maybe i shall watch a video on youtube when i get in... Has anyone seen any good tutuorial videos that are worth watching and work? im a Kinaesthetic learner.......

Thanks
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