Browser independent website

[rajitha]

Friends,

 

How to create Browser independent website? I struggling with this; please help me.

 

Thanks,

Rajitha

[ToonMariner]

standards compliant markup and style. fix for ie

[TheFilmGod]

I design for IE7+ and FF. Everything else should work well if you know how to design decently.

 

IE6 is also important. Takes up about 30% of the market share. However, the website I'm doing is too complex for the integrated css model in IE6. I don't hack css styles for specific browsers.

 

Make sure you use XHTML, use css layouts, properly semantics, and valid your markup/css!

 

Hope that helps.

[rajitha]

Thanks for your reply. Also I have a header.html, footer.html and content.php files. What is the best way to combine this and make it as a front page? Is it using frames?

[ifubad]

Is it using frames?

 

Don't use frames. You can use php to dynamically generate the header and footer for all pages that requires it, using either an include, function or object.

[invertrio]

Assuming that you broke out the HTML properly, something like this could work:

 

<?php

    include( 'header.html' );
    include( 'content.php' );
    include( 'footer.html' );

?>

 

If you will be generating dynamic web pages, I would suggest using something like Smarty (http://smarty.net/)