Other Strange Happenings

Question

Hi!
A website I set up last year and since updated to iWeb 08 has been doing fine - a little slow loading, but fine until now. When viewed with a browser other than Safari, the pages initially load fine, but when the page is 'scrolled', the vertical navigation bar I created goes crazy. The text is not aligned correctly and the links have red X's.
The website is: http://web.mac.com/laytonhouse/LakeshoreRVpark/Welcome%21.html
What is going on?

Answer 1

Here are some tips I gleamed from this forum on getting the site to be more IE compatible but they are mostly for iWeb 1. Some may still be valid for iWeb 2, however. With iWeb 1 photos with frames would be converted to png files and those were not viewed very well by IE. With iWeb 2 the photos remain jpgs even with frames. However, the frames add additional files, png, that have to be loaded so removing frames would help a bit. Since iWeb 2 I haven't gone thru the tests that I did to confirm these tip originally.
1 - do not use and frames or borders, etc. around photos.
2 - don't use any reflections.
3 - use only the web safe fonts from the Font pane.
4 - do not use drop shadow on fonts.
5 - turn off smart quotes
6- if you add a jpg to a page don't resize it in iWeb as that will cause it to be converted to png. Resize it to what you need before adding to the page. Then go into the Inspector/Metrics window and click on the Original size button. iWeb will resize any image no matter what size it is originally.
7 - make sure no items are touching or overlaping text boxes or images as that will cause them to be converted to a png file.
The above will reduce the number and size of files associated with a web page quite a bit. Photos with fancy frames and reflections can generate a thumbnail png of around 110KB whereas the plain version will be a jpg of only 28KB. Although it doesn't sound like a lot, it will speed up loading of the page and be more darkside (i.e. PC) friendly.
Run a test with a test site and publish to a folder. Then follow the hints above and publish to another folder and compare folders. Hopefully some of these may help speed up your site.