Newbie ?: Preview vs. Actual - browser viewing differently on server?

I'm new to Dreamweaver CS3 - moving over from GoLive. My
question: sometimes when I build a page, then Preview in 3
different browsers on my computer (Firefox, Safari, Opera) - it
displays perfectly. But when I upload it to the server - the page
is all screwed up. I know that I have made a mistake somewhere in
the CSS formatting to cause the problem but why does it play
correctly on my computer but not on the server? Should it not be
viewed by the browser the same way whether the file is on my
computer or on the server?
How can I check what I'm doing if it appears correct when
being built but then when uploaded it displays incorrectly?
Not use to this. In GoLive everything that displayed
correctly in the browser always displayed the same on the server.
I'm using a Mac computer, if that make any difference. Tried
to Google and searched for info on Adobe about this but can't find
any thing.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim

First I'd like to say thanks' to David and Alan for all your
help.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
url address to an uploaded page? Ans: The page in question
has been corrected so there's no URL
what about the page looks wrong?
Ans: I was using a 3 column fixed template. I altered the
sizing a little of the 3 columns. When the page was uploaded to the
server, the center column (which was only text) started down below
the 2 columns, so the center of the page was blank, until you
scrolled down below the longest column. Then the center column with
the text appeared at the bottom of the page.
I spent some time looking at this and I had the text
justified in the center column. I took the Justify-Center out of
the center column and when I posted again to the server it was
correct ( I think it was because of the Float Right for the right
column). I'm not exactly sure why it happened but that is for
another post. As I said, what concerns me is that I couldn't tell
until it was posted on the server.
I also had another problem similar to this happen yesterday
(although it may be browser specific). I posted some pages
(essentially mockup layouts for a client to pick and choose) on the
server, checked them on-line from my Mac with my 3 browsers, and
also check from a Windows XP IE machine I have. Everything looked
good, but when I went over to my clients office for a review
meeting, (who has windows XP and IE), one of the pages that had a
floating box (float Right Div) in it, the floating box was up over
the header. I believe the URL is:
http://www.summitcom.net/test/class3b.html.
I'm not sure if that is the correct URL because when I came back to
my office, and went to check it, and all the pages I posted look
correct.
Again, I sure I did something wrong in the CSS but if it
never looks wrong on my computers, how can I tell? That's my
concern.
Thanks,
Jim

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