Web layout displays fine in Safari, Firefox but not in IE6

Question

HI there
Am new to this forum and really hope you can help. I have
designed a website for someone integrating various flash files into
dreamweaver 2004 MX.
Each flash file represents, top nav bar, side nav bar, right
nav bar, title of body, and body of page.
I am using server side includes for each flash file such that
each nav bar etc has its own html doc.
I have used relative positioning in order that the website be
centered on the page.
My problem is this:
I am using Dreamweaver on Parallels VM on my intel Mac and
therefore check the layout on Safari and Firefox.
When trying to position each layer on dreamweaver such that
they viewed correctly on those browsers they had to be positioned
such that looked 'skewed' on the dreamweaver preview. In other
words the left nav bar would appear to be much lower down compared
to the top nav bar; the right nav bar was even lower on the page,
about half way down; and the title and body layers were 'pushed' to
the bottom.
The thing is i had to position it this way so that it would
look fine on safari and firefox - -otherwise the layers would
overlap or be way out place.
The only way to see this for yourself is to look at the
website on IE6. ON IE6 it looks exactly as it does on dreamweaver
preview. however, on IE7, Safari and Firefox it looks as how i want
it to look.
So just to recap on my ramblings: Website layers look out of
position on Dreamweaver preview and IE6, but look fine on other
browsers.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
The website is
PUURGEN.COM

Answer 1

HI Murray.
You dont really seemed to have tried to answer my question
and you seem to be a little misinformed about flash these days.
please read the following for example:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swf_searchability.html
Ok, this is just for google, but Yahoo is very soon to follow
suit.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> Each flash file represents, top nav bar, side nav bar,
right nav bar,
> title of
> body, and body of page.
<OUCH>
This is a guaranteed no-show in search engine indexes, you
know? Not only
can they not index your site, they cannot read any of its
contents. And as
for accessability, forget it.
Are you sure you want to continue on this non best-practice
road?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"rustypico" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> HI there
>
> Am new to this forum and really hope you can help. I
have designed a
> website
> for someone integrating various flash files into
dreamweaver 2004 MX.
>
> Each flash file represents, top nav bar, side nav bar,
right nav bar,
> title of
> body, and body of page.
> I am using server side includes for each flash file such
that each nav bar
> etc
> has its own html doc.
>
> I have used relative positioning in order that the
website be centered on
> the
> page.
> My problem is this:
>
> I am using Dreamweaver on Parallels VM on my intel Mac
and therefore
> check
> the layout on Safari and Firefox.
> When trying to position each layer on dreamweaver such
that they viewed
> correctly on those browsers they had to be positioned
such that looked
> 'skewed'
> on the dreamweaver preview. In other words the left nav
bar would appear
> to be
> much lower down compared to the top nav bar; the right
nav bar was even
> lower
> on the page, about half way down; and the title and body
layers were
> 'pushed'
> to the bottom.
>
> The thing is i had to position it this way so that it
would look fine on
> safari and firefox - -otherwise the layers would overlap
or be way out
> place.
>
> The only way to see this for yourself is to look at the
website on IE6.
> ON
> IE6 it looks exactly as it does on dreamweaver preview.
however, on IE7,
> Safari and Firefox it looks as how i want it to look.
>
> So just to recap on my ramblings: Website layers look
out of position on
> Dreamweaver preview and IE6, but look fine on other
browsers.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
>
> The website is
>
>
http://www.puurgen.com
>