AOL and PC users have difficulties viewing my iWeb site

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AOL and PC users have difficulties viewing my iWeb site

I was so happy to finally publish my iWeb site after hours of frustration.

http://web.mac.com/stangold/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html

Now I have heard from AOL and PC users that they have difficulties with the site. The pictures won't enlarge on a Photo Page. The slide show won't work on a PC or AOL users.

My question is: Is iWeb supposed to generate cross platform websites? What good is a website that can't be viewed by a majority of those out there who use PC's? Have others experienced problems with PC or AOL viewers?

Stan

G5 dual processor Mac OS X (10.4.6)

G5 dual processor Mac OS X (10.3.7)

G5 dual processor Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Posted on May 30, 2006 9:01 AM

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Answer 1

theshow

Level 3

775 points

May 30, 2006 9:15 AM in response to Stanley Goldberg

Looks like the best bet for PC users at this time is to use Firefox since I've heard IE buggs out on certain iWeb-created elements.

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Answer 2

May 30, 2006 2:24 PM in response to theshow

Looks like the best bet for PC users at this time is
to use Firefox since I've heard IE buggs out on
certain iWeb-created elements.

Very true, point them to Firefox and Google will pay you for it.

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Answer 3

May 30, 2006 2:34 PM in response to saxon warrior

Thanks for the firefox suggestion. I'll let people know. I guess there's no hope for aol people.

Stan

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Answer 4

May 30, 2006 3:34 PM in response to theshow

dang... this *****.
this answers the question i posted about windows ((IE)) users not being able to view my pages because it creates "double" fonts and what nots.

it's only doing this on my 1.1. templates though...

ARGH!

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Answer 5

May 30, 2006 4:47 PM in response to Stanley Goldberg

You can use any web browser with AOL, but the average person who goes for AOL will be bewildered if you try to explain that to them. But try telling them to connect via aol, then fire up firefox to view your site.

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Answer 6

May 30, 2006 6:51 PM in response to jassebella

The aol users tell me that the copy and pasted link to the site in my email is not a live link within aol mail. I can't believe that aol users can just click on a link in an email.

Stan

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WillG4PB

Level 4

2,020 points

May 30, 2006 6:53 PM in response to Stanley Goldberg

Stan

This is a common problem for aol users, you often see comments saying, "aol users copy and paste this link into your browser."

It does seem unreal, but it's true!

Will

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Answer 8

howwow

Level 4

3,541 points

May 30, 2006 8:50 PM in response to WillG4PB

Just to "side track" a bit, if you put ourselves in the others' shoes, so to speak, there are many sites in the WWW that Safari has some sort of difficulty to read or load properly... So there you go...

iWeb is still very "infant" in its stage, so given time, I am sure all the browsers should be able to load iWeb-made pages properly... at least right now there is Firefox to solve the loading problems...

Cheers

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