I don't know much html at all, so I've been relying on dream weaver.. I slice my website that I've done in photoshop in imageready, then import into dreamweaver etc.. On firefox, my website looks fine.. www.vanilladawn.com.au/home.html ... I've used a random script to make the front picture change on refresh etc.. My problem is that I looked at the website on IE today, and it looks absolutely shocking.. I'm really upset that I can't find a way to fix it.. The thing is.. That on some pages.. It looks fine on IE.. For example.. http://www.vanilladawn.com.au/about.html http://www.vanilladawn.com.au/contact.html http://www.vanilladawn.com.au/aboutcollections.html Those 3 pages look fine.... Nothing wrong with them... This page http://www.vanilladawn.com.au/home.html .. And this page http://www.vanilladawn.com.au/info.html however, look really quite sh*tty. On the home page with the random images.. TWO of them look fine.. There's a one with a baby in a pink and orange nappy, and one with some boys on a boat.. Those 2 images.. They're not pixelated.. The other 8 of them are.. Its especially obvious on the baby thats curled up on the black background. You'll have to excuse me, I'm really not good with html, so I haven't been able to do a lot of problem solving myself... I have been trying, and nothing I do works.. Does anyone have any ideas on why its doing this, particularly not on all the pages?
After a lot of googling.. A lot of said its a problem with IE and to go in and change the value on a file in regedit etc.. What I don't understand is.. Why would it have 2 clear images out of 10 or 11 on one page, and the rest be jagged.. Then have 3 or 4 pages that are clear.. and then have another whole page that is jagged?? It just doesn't make sense..
Yes, the problem is IE, and IE will almost always be the problem with any web site because it's the worst browser on the planet, 11 years behind web standards. Without a proper doctype, IE goes into quirks mode and doesn't attempt to perform like modern browsers. Add this to the top line of your page and see where it gets us: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Thanks for the speedy reply I personally don't use IE at all, I don't even know what made me check.. My concern is that my audience is mums/families, a lot of which don't know any better and just use the default IE, and of course.. The profession I'm in.. It's very important for the thing I'm selling to look good I've added it to the top of the page.. No change.