I do not have this problem on my other website created using VSD, & XP. All of my bullets and dashes are aligning where I want them to. And everything looks great across many, many platforms--maybe all.

But in my other website, created with VSD & Vista has my bullets, dashes and text blocks not where I placed them. I tried grouping in VSD but that did nothing. HOWEVER, it looks ok on a pc in firefox. The problem seems to be using a MAC & Safari.
Any thoughts? Haven't been able to find info on the forums on this.

Give us a link to the sites in question.

www.marcappleman.com

Again, using Vista, VSD and hosted by godaddy. It is not appearing correctly on the Mac OS on firefox or safari.

As I said, my site designed using XP, VSD hosted by hostmonster is compatible on all fronts--and it's much more complicated!

Really appreciate the help. If I can avoid re-doing everything that'd be nice.

Are your other sites using the "Trebuchet MS" font as well. It may be that they are using a font or fonts which work better across browsers.



Actually, they are exactly where you placed them, but the font sizes and line-heights are different. This is what's causing things to go out of alignment.



I'm also seeing the problem with Safari 3 for Windows.

So basically, I would look into seeing what fonts you used before with success, and then use those fonts in this site as well. If it turns out being the same font, then I'm stumped.

Thanks, Cary--I thought Trebuchet was a friendly font, but I did change it to Verdana and it made a big improvement.

But there remains a big gap above Education on the bio page. I can't figure that one out. There are separate text boxes there, but obviously, I have them spaced correctly in VSD.

I've tried making new pages and copying & pasting--same thing happens.

Looking at the source code, it is not placed in order of appearance---is that normal or the problem?

Any thoughts?

I don't have any ideas how you might fix this. I don't use VSD, so I'm not familiar with its details. Hopefully, someone will have some ideas.

It is normal for things in code to not be in the order of their appearance when using wysiwyg editors, and it's unlikely that this is contributing to the spacing problem you have.

Windy,

If you look at your code, you will see that things are positioned using absolute position. This means the actual order of the code has very little affect, but the positioning puts things where it belongs.

Thanks Bill, but I still can't see why it's not showing properly via Mac.
I'm using VSD, so all the positioning is done for me.
Can you tell why?

Windy,

Different browsers have different ways of handling things. Sometimes the way they operate does not comply with W3C standards. When this happens, you either live with it or find a hack to make the browsers work.

Sometimes, it is not because they do not comply with standards, but you still have to find a hack to get around the problem.

I do not have a MAC, and when I view the site using the Windows version of Safari and FIrefox, it looks good. You may want to check with someone that knows why Macs work the way they do.

I know this is not much help, but it is all I can suggest.