Calling all MAC users and anyone averse to Internet Explorer

[silverpuresilver]

Hi

It has been brought to my attention that my new website cannot be seen properly on anything other than Internet Explorer.

If you have access to a MAC - could you visit my website please and let me know whether it is loading correctly, prices are visible, whole page is visible - you know, all the things you would expect to see on a website!!!

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Karen

[Stephen]

Do it yourself!!

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

(You give it the URL, and a Mac automatically loads it up and emails you a screenshot - priceless.)

[silverpuresilver]

Great Idea - Thanks

It apparently isn't working at the moment, so I'll try again later.

Karen

[poshgaffer]

Hello,

I am a MAC user & I looked at your site with both Explorer for Mac & Safari. The site seems fine.....

If there is some specific area of the site that you need looking at please let me know.

Regards,

poshgaffer

[Enigma121]

Site appears fine within Firefox if that's any help - well consistent with IE anyway.

Note I don't really like the way that the center bit resizes after a few seconds. I take it that it's doing this with javascript?

Suggest using a relative % for sizing, rather than absolute values that have to be recalculated by a script.

[silverpuresilver]

Hi Enigma

With regard to Firefox, I was lead to believe that the prices were appearing as zeros - everything is free!!! As I don't have it, I don't understand what you mean about the centre bit resizing - do you mean the homepage/content text.

Is % thing easy for my web designers to do???

Hi Poshgaffer - are there any prices on the mac screens? Does it look the right size etc - some browsers were only showing half a screen?

Thanks for looking, hope you don't mind me asking more questions!!

Karen

[Enigma121]

Yeah now you point it out there are quite a few items listed as free of charge. Excellent!

Not all items are free however, so whatever formatting differences there are on the "Dartington Claret Jug", you need to apply these throughout the site.

BTW can I have one of your free celebration photoframes for pointing this out? :-)

% sizing is something that all web designers worth their salt should know about. If they don't you could always get a quote from us ;-)

The scrolling window resized on my machine then scaled up to fit the main window a few seconds later.

[silverpuresilver]

I'll tell you something Enigma - I'll be celebrating for a week when I finally get this website sorted out - been dragging on for 9 months now, it should be about to deliver surely . . . .

[Dread]

I'd most definately recommend firing your web designer. Not that im pimping my services, but your designer clearly knows very little by looking at the way they've done it, also 9 months is completely unacceptable. And yes i found a few things that were appearing as £0.00 so obviously theres some problems and I wont even comment on my disgust for frames.

A horse's head in the bed of your designer might get them moving?

[silverpuresilver]

Thanks Dread for that positive note!!!!

Don't get me started on frames - it was one of the reasons we had a new site designed. Another UKBF member pm'd me to give me some advice and said that it was in frames - I wasn't aware of this, and needless to say, was not best pleased . . . . .

It appears that there are a number of very basic problems on the site - ones that any good designer worth their salt would never have contemplated.

If you have any other advice, comments, suggestions, criticisms, please voice them. We are due to have a meeting with an intermediary a week on Tuesday and I want to be well armed on all website issues.

Thanks

Karen

[Eagle]

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Good grief... fire them? I'd have them shot! :wink:

[Rob Holmes]

If you have any other advice, comments, suggestions, criticisms, please voice them. We are due to have a meeting with an intermediary a week on Tuesday and I want to be well armed on all website issues.

Karen,

My gut feeling is that is this has taken 9 months so far and this is what they give you then I suggest (IMHO) they will never be capable of sorting the site out for you.

My advice - cut your losses - get a different designer and check their work before you employ them.

Rob

[silverpuresilver]

:x Such doom and gloom - and I thought the site actually looked quite good!!!!

Any positive comments?????

- like the 'gallery engine' that the designer specalises in - where the images scroll up and down the page for each section? Is this really innovative or can most designers do this sort of thing. I only ask as this was one of their major selling points.

In my defence, this company is an approved provider from a government agency - who also invested 50% into the project. . . . .

Karen :wink: