site works rarely in IE

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Ted Dolmatch

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My wife's a serious artist; I made bdolmatch.com to be a retrospective of her decades of work, to be seen by various museums and galleries. I chose to buy a Macbook and use Iweb as an alternative to spending the same money on some pro using Dreamweaver or GoLive. (I've developed, over years, a strong distaste for Micrsoft.)

The site works fine in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome -- but not in IE -- only occasionally there (usually in IE6) unless one changes IE's "Accessibility" option to "ignore specified website colors" -- which generally screws up the user.

What prevents IE users from clicking the choices on the first page and going further into the various paintings, c.v., etc? on bdolmatch.com?

Thanks very much.
 
I believe you have discovered the Achilles' Heel of web design -- ensuring that a site displays and operates in the same fashion no matter what browser the end-user chooses.

Unfortunately, IE has it's own set of "standards." IE6 was atrocious (IE7 and IE8 are slowly getting better), and lots of money was/is paid out to web developers (not web "designers") to ensure that a design still operated and looked the same in IE. Sometimes this involved several hundred lines of IE-specific code.

It may be one, single CSS statement or something that needs "tweaking" for IE to work correctly with it -- or, it may be something much more involved (creating a custom IE CSS file, perhaps?). While this isn't a fix for your problem, I just wanted to convey a little information about what you're experiencing and the level of difficulty involved in making a website look the same on all browsers.

Crossing fingers that someone has the time to poke through your site structure and code and can point out a simple fix -- otherwise, I can take a stab at it when I get more time this weekend.
 
I use Rapidweaver which is fairly inexpensive. All the web sites that I have created so far run fine in IE as well as Safari and Firefox
 
I'd certainly appreciate your looking at this problem; I have no idea why it doesn't work because my son's website (he's an artist, too) at dolmatchstudio.com -- with virtually identical templates -- seems to have no problems in IE, regardless of version.
 
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