TWR Internet Solutions Website Designer's are based in Middlewich Cheshire

Browser Compatibility
Not all websites look the same when displayed on different browsers. A browser is a piece of software on your computer that renders a web page so it can be displayed on to the screen. The browser you have installed on your system controls how the page is displayed on your screen.

The most popular browsers are: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Netscape and on the Mac Safari. At the time of writing this Internet Explorer7 as 24.9% of users, Internet Explorer6 as 17.0% of users, the most recent member to the Microsoft family is Internet Explorer8 this up to now as only a 1.4% of users.Firefox as 46.5% of internet users, closely followed by Google’s own browser Chrome which as 4.2% of all internet users. Safari & Opera make up 5.4% of internet users. Microsoft are slowly loosing out to the likes of Firefox & Chrome, with only a 43.30% of their browsers being used in the month, compared to Firefox’s 46.5%. As you can see the new Google Chrome is also on the verge of over taking IE. This information was from w3schools.com, you can find it on the following page:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp and the month used is March 2009. If you go to the above site you will see that Internet Explore was the top browser the previous month.

So as you can see a website design as to be able to work and look as near to the same on all these browsers, you do not want to loose out on a sale because your website designer has not done their job correctly.

Valid Html Code
Your website should always contain correct coding standards and the code must be valid. If a site is not coded in the correct web standards it may well not work as it should, Internet Explorer is flexible when it comes to badly coded files, and will more than often still render the page as it was designed to look like. But Firefox is not, Firefox is most probably the strictest of all web browsers around, what this means is it actually works as it should and expects to receive correctly coded html files, it basically shows the page as it should do. This may well not be the way it looked when put together and tested on Internet Explorer, but it will look the way it is coded. As we already know that Firefox is looking like becoming the leader in the browser race means it is more than ever important that all your website files are coded correctly. It is a good idea to check that the web designers own page is valid, before you decide if you want them to do your website design. You will be surprised how many designers do not even have their own files coded in valid html. If they can not even make sure that their own site is coded correctly then DO YOU REALY WANT THEM WORKING ON YOURS? Just pop along to http://validator.w3.org/ and enter the website address you wish to check. CSS well not always be showing up as valid when hacks are being used. A hack is how we get around certain browser problems, it is away of targeting IE browsers in order to fix any bugs that the browser may have.