Browser-friendly Websites

Making sure that you build a website that is going to look the same in various browsers in critical to any website design.

Here are the latest statistics for the usage of different browsers:

This factor will play a large role in the design choices I make for my website. Throughout the Dreamweaver sessions I will be constantly testing my website in multiple browsers. There are 3 main problems:

• The visitors operating system
• The visitors display system
• How the browser interprets the page

The visitors OS will affect how the scroll bars, arrows, submit buttons and navigational buttons would look for example. There is coding to personalise even these small bits of detail but many websites leave it.

The visitors display system will focus mainly on the resolution of the screen that the visitor is using. You cannot take for granted that everyone will be operating from monitors with a resolution of 1024x768 (highest res.) This plays a huge part in the dynamics of your website and where there will be scrollers put in unintentionally.