Currently, a large majority of webmasters to design for IE (Internet Explorer) 6, which does not conform to W3C standards is that Firefox, Netscape, Safari and Opera.
In my article – “The importance of designing the website and its search spiders internet marketing specialist, I mentioned the importance of a designer is aware that the web browser standards are not yet fully harmonized – a web site that looks good in Internet Explorer (can look like 6) in an ugly-based browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Netscape.
I also noted that with the explosion of devices that are used for Internet applications, the W3C standards has become critical.
When the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, Server 2003 and Vista is launched, hopefully before the end of 2006, the tables are turned, so to speak.
Internet Explorer 7 is more consistent with standards and your HTML code will be interpreted subject to much stricter than the case with IE 6, so that some Web pages that fine search in Internet Explorer 6, which may not look the same IE 7.
In Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft has a solemn efforts browser support for W3C standards and CSS correction made (Cascading Style Sheets) compatibility. CSS interpretation as recommended by the W3C has been improved considerably designers and developers to give more influence in the functionality of the cross-browser design.
Microsoft says they are W3C compatibility issues seriously.
In short, this mean that IE 7 tend to code your web page to be interpreted more strictly than before.
So if you design your pages and have not bothered to examine how they do in the browser that supports W3C standards such as Firefox, you can relax in a severe blow when IE 7 finally rolls out.
If you do not include the W3C web standards in your design strategy you may have needed a redesign for IE 7
What do you do?
Design for “strict” browsers like Firefox first. FireFox is not just a standards compliant browser, but it is also the main competitor to Internet Explorer. A competitor of the marketing machine of Google – and thus supported, is not likely to do “a Netscape” on designers.
Before and up to IE 4.x, Netscape Navigator is the market leader with nearly 80% of the market, but in an attempt to force the issue culminating with margins property of AOL, Netscape sold, they screwed up big time with versions 4 6 A bitter war of attrition with Microsoft in the late nineties did not help either.
Microsoft took the opportunity and gobbled up the browser market overnight.
With version 7 + Netscape has been revived. To what extent compete with IE and Firefox remains to be seen.
I’ll be the first to admit that most web pages, I have not been built in recent years have increasingly friendly standards … then ninety percent of other websites are – as I have described in my previous article, “if strict W3C standards have been in browsers that are applied, most sites out of business.”
To design for a Firefox developer has Valid CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to combine the look and feel “and W3C compliant HTML code for the structure of Web pages.
Combining these two design strategies that resolve is considerable flexibility, easy maintenance, and opens up many possibilities for designing powerful web site. The performance will be rewarded and every webmaster should try to use these two points in regulation in their routine design.
Make changes and / or designing a website designed with CSS is much simpler and more elegant than messing with a traditional base design table.
CSS may sound intimidating for a first timer but if you have the basics, you can gradually learn the power of CSS to your full advantage. In addition, most design tools like Dreamweaver Web page in FrontPage modules that allow you to automatically generate the CSS code that you can in a simple text editor designed for the purpose of the study.
To you in your quest CSS, you will need the following developer tools: Web Developer Extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. Great time-saving tools for creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.
Indeed, by installing some of the 1,500 + available Firefox extensions you can eliminate the need for a whole piece of desktop applications autonomous.
After designing your web site to remember a validation service markup to check if your website meets W3C recommendations. If there are errors, the validator to review, recommend and note corrections.
Also, remember that when designing using W3C standards, guidelines, a large amount of code (tags) that are comprehensive in the pre-standards in “free time and be completely ignored by browsers . If you ignore this error message during validation, your web pages are not correctly reproduced.
In many cases, you’ll never in a position of 100% HTML or XHTML validation. In such cases, you may want to put the following DOCTYPE declaration in the document – on top of your web page before the day:
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “- / / W3C / / DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional / / EN”>
Note: Take a seat, after “<” and before “>”
A “Document Type Definition or DTD provides a Web browser with information on where (X) HTML specification your web page is built on the instruction to the browser as the site for display.
In the example above captioned a standards compliant browser will interpret your web page as an HTML 4.01, and because it is labeled as “transitional provisions”, he is in “quirks” means of display, the browser compared to strict standards mode is omitted and show your page as in the old “does not appear to be strictly” browsers, while supporting No tags for IE 4, Netscape 4 and other developed nations.
Instead, the following DOCTYPE declaration tells the standards compliant browsers seems that your website must be in strict compliance with the DOCTYPE declaration.
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “- / / W3C / / DTD HTML 4.01 / / EN”>
Pour une liste complète des DTD recommandées peuvent être trouvées sur le site Web du W3C à trouver.
If you omit the DOCTYPE, the browser automatically quirks mode “, so to do, it is important to the DOCTYPE declaration on every web page you are building a good record.
If your web pages in Firefox does now, he probably will not encounter major problems in IE 7, other than minor adjustments here and there. But I think a realistic designer should at least not a serious attempt to follow the guidelines of the W3C, is the right way.
Do it now so you’re ready for the future … Re-design and revisions total a tedious and painful process. A process that is much easier if your initial design incorporated structurally clean and modular (X) HTML with CSS compliance.