As a web designer, you should test your website in both current and older browser versions (within reason!) - and get your friends to look at it on their systems as well. This will help you see if there are colour inconsistencies as well as coding ones. Unless you are designing for an intranet and know exactly which browser and version your client is using, you need to test it with as many different configurations as you can.
In this particular case, I would probably advise the client to update their web browser to the latest version. If they had a previous website and you are able to view the statistics for it, you can let your client know that x% of visitors are using browsers x, y and z. Chances are, very few are still using IE5. Jason On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:46 PM, chris | chrisbuttery.com < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I'm relatively new to this group & this is my first post. So here goes. > > I just had an issue where i developed a prototype site for a client that > worked perfectly across several browsers > (IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari & Netscape). > > The client sent me a screen shot of the site taken from their browser ( > IE5...which i don't have ) > that basically displayed a mangled site. I was able to fix the site through > a series of screen shots > supplied from the client, but it's obviously not a professional way of > doing things. > > My question to you guys is how do you develop & test your websites to > ensure they are interpreted correctly > by older more popular browsers ? Do you have older browsers handy to test > them with? > > Thanks > Chris > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
