| Have you ever passed a mirror and found a | | | | |
| stranger reflected back at you? Most of us | | | | Look at your site on different computers |
| have a perception of how we look, but it's | | | | including PCs, Macs and laptops. All |
| not always realistic. The same goes for our | | | | computers will display your site differently. |
| web sites. Unless we do our homework, what we | | | | Different video cards, different screen |
| think is the image we are portraying to the | | | | technology and different monitor settings are |
| outside world is not what others are | | | | factors that will affect how your site |
| seeing.Web pages can look very different | | | | displays. Web sites reflect your company's |
| depending on the configuration of the | | | | professional image. If your site shows |
| visitor's computer. Users utilize a broad | | | | improperly or not at all, your company's |
| range of screen resolutions, operating | | | | reputation can be tainted. If your site has |
| systems, monitor settings and browsers.Here | | | | browser display problems, visitors and |
| are some reasons for the differences from | | | | potential customers will leave your site and |
| computer to computer:Everyone uses different | | | | not look back.Any good web designer will test |
| screen resolutions. Approximately 20% of | | | | your site on different browsers, but you can |
| people use an 800 by 600 pixel screen | | | | also do your part. Whenever you can, look at |
| resolution, but more and more people are | | | | your site on other people's computers. You |
| buying large monitors and are viewing pages | | | | may be surprised at what you see!What is a |
| on resolutions of 1024 by 768 or more. Pages | | | | web browser? |
| will look totally different on different | | | | |
| resolutions, so you must make sure that your | | | | Your Web browser is a translation device. It |
| web site designer makes your site work on all | | | | takes a document written in the HTML (the |
| resolutions, with NO horizontal scrolling. | | | | language used to write web pages) and |
| | | | translates it into a web page. Differences |
| Look at your site on different browsers. | | | | between browsers are caused by the different |
| (See what is a web browser?) The majority of | | | | ways they translate the html code. The |
| people use Internet Explorer to view web | | | | translation is a little like giving two |
| pages, but Mozilla and Opera are gaining | | | | translators a sentence written in Spanish and |
| ground. The trouble with web browsers comes | | | | asking them to translate it into English. |
| when they have trouble translating the code | | | | They will very likely use different words to |
| behind your web site. Older versions of web | | | | translate the Spanish, even though they will |
| browsers have particular trouble translating | | | | both get the meaning across. |
| code properly. Some people do not update | | | | |
| their web browsers when new versions come | | | | The most popular web browsers are Internet |
| out, so getting your pages to work in older | | | | Explorer (IE), Netscape and Opera.Colleen |
| web browsers is important. If there is an | | | | Happ designs effective and affordable |
| error in your code, there is a much greater | | | | websites. View her portfolio at offers free |
| change of it not displaying correctly, or it | | | | one hour consultations to show how an |
| may not even display at all in the older web | | | | effective website can benefit your business. |
| browsers. | | | | She can be reached at 403-807-8225. |