Freewebsitebuttons.com: Please review my site.

[buttonmaker]

Hi everyone. I'm quite new to StatCounter. I *love* the service! I just discovered this board today.

My site: http://www.freewebsitebuttons.com
is still in its "infancy." It works well in IE, but I know I have some issues to work on when it comes to compatibility in Firefox. The StatCounter information has shown me that I need to start paying attention to Firefox users. If anyone out there uses Safari, Opera, or some other browser, I would really like to know if my site holds its integrity on those platforms. Thanks very much!

BTW, here's another site that you might find useful:
http://www.buttonland.com

[The Gent]

The site loads up fine in Safari and in Firefox although it did take a little while in the latter. Are there any specific things that you feel do not look OK?

[webit]

Agree. http://www.buttonland.com did take longer in Firefox (1.0)

[buttonmaker]

Thanks for the comments.

I built the site using IE. I used tables and I had a 1 px border around the tables. The border wasn't visible because the border color was the same color as the background. It worked fine--that is until I downloaded Firefox last week and I noticed that Firefox displays the 1 px border, even if the border is the same color as the background. I fixed the home page and the first few pages, but the problem is still visible on several pages (it's a lot of work to fix).

I think it's important to design with Firefox in mind. I'm just not aware of other differences between the Firefox display and IE's display.

[webado]

You'll have to place border=0" in all your tables where you don't want a border, or use a style sheet to define it that way.

Why did you ever bother to define a border in the same color as the background if you didn't actually want to see it?

[buttonmaker]

I guess I was just in a hurry and I didn't pause long enough to think about the consequences. Also, because it wasn't showing up in IE, I figured everything would be okay.

I think I've found another problem: I use a little javascript to prompt visitors to bookmark my site. It appears my script only works in IE. Does anyone have a "bookmark script" that works in both IE & Firefox?

Thanks.

[jonra01]

I use this on my site. It works in both mozilla/firefox and IE. If the user has Mozilla/Firefox then it adds the specified page to the sidebar instead of to the bookmarks. I'm going to try to change that one of these days.

I use javascript to write out the link, that way it doesn't show up if the user doesn't have js enabled.

<div id="favs">
		<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
			document.write ("add this site to your favorites")
		</script>
</div>

Then I put this function in my javascript file.

function add2favs(title, url){
	if (document.all)
	window.external.AddFavorite(url, title);
	else if (window.sidebar)
	window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "")
}

John

[buttonmaker]

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the generosity.

[wakeup]

I'm trying it, and it do bookmark in firefox, but it is opened in the sidepanel

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[webado]

Hmmm, I used yours and I got an error in FF:

Error: window.external has no properties
Source File: javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.freewebsitebuttons.com','FreeWebsiteButtons.co m')
Line: 1