http://www.aquariance.com

Here is a site that I built. Still has a few minor bugs in the online section. Check it out.

http://www.aquariance.com

it doesnt render at all well in firefox! have a look at this screenshot:

sorry.. I developed it using IE. How much trouble is it to design it to work with firefox and IE?

That is simply nasty lol. Firefox is becoming more popular by the day. Have you tested it in Netscape & Opera? I have, they render it the same as Firefox (see the above post)

Many people suggest that you should use firefox as your test browser, then hack for IE; this is why

You need to clean up your code in a big way! I viewed the source in both IE and Firefox and just closed the window; it was a mess.
I don't really know what to recommend as the code is too nasty to trawl through.....what created it? (frontpage??? perhaps).

Good luck,
Duncan

PS:- Take a little time to learn HTML/CSS instead of using the nasty WYSIWYG editors available. The only one I would recommend is Dreamweaver. Learning a bit about HTML will help you clean up the code and some CSS will help further. Learning HTML/CSS really isn't very difficult at all.

I think that it has to do with the control panel that I sometimes use on the site. Usually I just use a txt editor most of the time though.

I think that it has to do with the control panel that I sometimes use on the site. Usually I just use a txt editor most of the time though. I have included the original code that I made in this .txt file. There should be big difference betwen that and what you are seeing from the source (i hope)...

Thats a bit better, at least I can read it now. The code is not too clever though, try writing 'cleaner' markup. The online validator by the W3C is a good guide. Their report found in excess of 200 errors on your homepage; view the report:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...e.com/Page1.asp

Work through some of these problems. When your site passes validation, it has a much greater chance of rendering correctly in all browsers.

Hope this helps,
Duncan

Okay, I opened it up in Internet Exploder, since it was an absolute mess in Firefox.

Is the page so narrow because I have my resolution set high? Some points to ponder:

• The text of your catchphrase "Let our passion work for you" looks kind of rough as in pixelated... see if you can find a slightly smoother font.
• Not everyone uses white for a background color... keep that in mind when you make those boxes.
• Speaking of color... your use of these bight pastel colors if inventive, but slightly painful... especially with the white text.
• In the Aquarium Services page, it's obvious that you guys have a lot of beliefs... because you use the word several times in the same paragraph. Also, the word is adhere, not adhear... businesses have lost customers (namely grammar whores like myself) because they didn't spell-check or grammar check. Find someone with grammar skills to help you refine your statements.
• In the galleries, you have the same photos posted in two different galleries, half of them have nothing but the phrase "Coming soon" and a few of the pictures are blurry, pixelated or really not anything to write home about. You need to look at each picture and ask yourself, would I buy a fish or services from the person who built/owns/maintains this tank?
• Your custom tank calculator is very thorough, I like it. It breaks if someone accidentally hits Retrun before filling all the blanks in, though. Consider some on error routines.
• Are these FAQs actually Frequently Asked Questions, or are they questions someone assumed would be asked? I would be hesitant to publish my billing poilies online, though I would put fixed pricing in an appropriate section if possible.
• I don't put much stock in Press release pages unless there are more releases than once a year.
• Easter is well passed, get rid of the bunny-eared fish.

Overall, I find the site pretty decent, despite my above grouchiness, but you seriously have to go through and square away all the grammatical stuff. You are trying to put forth a professional image, and that goes right out the window when someone sees you can't even spell options or discretion nor do I think you will get much business for web site design until those problems are addressed.

Home page has a lot of links but little explanation of what your site is all about. The space where you have "Happy Easter" would probably be better used to explain what your site is about - "We see aquariums and fish"...etc.

Why is Gallery "coming soon", but gallery 4 active? In general, if you have already made the site public it is useless to have links to "coming soon" pages. Visitors are not likely to come back again and it just gives an impression that the site is incomplete.

Good luck.