Your Web Design and Browsers

Creating your own website is a great accomplishment. You want the world to see what you've designed.

But wait - did you stop to think about what your site might look like on other browsers?
Perhaps you designed your website while previewing the design with the Netscape (or the latest Firefox) browser. But, did you think to preview your site in other popular browsers such as IE or Opera?

Popular Web Browsers

*Internet Explorer (IE): Microsoft's Web browser - the most popular today. It was released in 1995 and surpassed Netscape in popularity in 1998.

*Netscape: This was the first commercial Web browser, released in 1994.

*Firefox: A new browser that was released in place of Netscape following the Netscape 7.2 version. It is based on Mozilla and is the second most popular Web browser on the WWW.

*Opera: A Norwegian Web browser used for small devices such as Palm Pilot computers or cell phones with online access.

How do Web Browsers Work?

When you design your web pages, you'll use a programming language or special program such as HTML, XTML, PHP, FLASH, MYSQL, or some other technique.

Web browsers will look at your web page codes and translate them into readable, pleasant-looking pages for the end user. Instead of "jibberish" your visitors should see a well-designed web page.

If all they see is the code, you can forget selling anything or getting your point across!

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