I have just done a simple website for a family business, and was quite happy with how it looked, until I looked at it on another computer.

The site should have a nav bar down one side, and along the top, in two blocks of colour, however on the other computer I looked at the nav bar was split up with white space in between each link.

I tried changing my video display to its lowest setting on my computer but it still looks fine.

Does anyone know why it would look so different? The only ifference I can think of is a different version on internet explorer, could this cause it?

The site is www.gibsonssports.co.uk

Any help would be much appreciated, the site was done in Dreamweaver MX.

works for me. possibly theer are resolution problems or the other persons comp doesnt have IE so you used somehting else on their comp. maybe your friends comp is just plain messed up, but still, it works on mine

res: 1024x768x32

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most likely a different browser

browser interpret code in different ways.

In other words IE may by default display a table with no border

however in Mozilla, by default table may automatically have borders

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sounds like a cellspacing/padding issue

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Yep, it is. You must declare cellspacing="0" and cellpadding="0" in your table. IE will assume non-declaration means set to zero, but other browsers do not assume this, they act strictly on what instructions are there, so you have to spoon feed them with everything, even zero values.

BTW, that is an indication of the bad coding of the IE software for making any assumptions, not the bad coding of the other browsers for adhering strictly to code received.

just one of the many annoying things in web devel...

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I have had a look and the table has cellpadding and cellspacing declared as 0 already.

Very strange, I guess I will just have to hope it works on most computers.

Try and ensure that there are no spaces between the tags in the code. I notice that you always have a 'td' tag, then a space, then the 'a' and 'img' tags.

Also, you'll probably want to put the side navbar inside it's own table, because if the "Welcome to" table cell content gets too large, it will spread the left hand cells (navbar) out too. If you put the navbar as a separate table it will not be affected.

Regards,

Paul.

I second the different browser theory. Internet Explorer 4 for MS Windows renders pages differently than 4.5, which renders pages differently than 5, which renders pages different than v.5.5, which renders them differently from 6.0. The Mac versions of Internet Explorer use a COMPLETELY different rendering engine.

Now let’s consider Netscape (v.6+), Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, etc., etc., etc.. Unlike Internet Explorer, virtually every other browser on the planet attempts to adhere to web standards, so if your page is coded correctly, it *should* show up correctly in all of them. (Note that I said *should*. The various creators still don’t agree on the way *everything* should display, so you’ll still have some minor glitches here and there.)

Oh, and if someone happens to still being using Netscape 4, AOL (any version), or WebTV, all bets are off. Like Microsoft, these browsers all use a somewhat proprietary rendering engine (AOL actually uses an old version of IE) and your stuff can get *really* messy in those.