What the heck is wrong with my site?? I need your help!

[grandpashea]

I am having a little trouble with a site I am building... I have ran it through Safari and FireFox and it seems to function ok, BUT I am a mac user and can't actually check the site in explorer as I can't find a download for mac. I remember years ago I had 6 on my mac but can't find it now. The current version of explorer is windows only. I sent a beta version of the site to a friend overseas who has explorer (all my local friends are mac nerds) and they noticed some problems with the home page. They said that the images on the first page are loading with gaps...??

Warning about the site. I am rushing a site as the artist I am building it for has a show on this week... And I am building it in dreamweaver as my code knowledge is weak. I know the basics but nothing too advanced (this is my second website).

I would really appreciate it if anyone could take a look. I would love to launch this site asap and iron out all the other passable design flaws when it is live.

Thanks in advance.

The beta site is located here:

http://rhondagoodallkirk.com/indexbeta3.html

 

[sunyatasattva]

Hello,

I see what you mean - having to deal with Internet Explorer is always a big hassle, and we should always pray each day that people will understand it and use the better stuff they have at hand.
But since it is not going to happen, I have a few solutions for you:

1. If you are running on an Intel Mac, you could install Windows on Boot Camp and run Internet Explorer there. While it is the extreme solution, it also gives you the opportunity to test your site as a real Windows user.
2. You can check out this awesome website: http://browsershots.org/ which makes you test your own site with a bunch of different browsers on a bunch of different OS. They only problem is that it shows you snapshot of what a user may see, so, if you are going to test animations, rollovers and stuff like these, this is not the thing for you. Or only partially.
3. It is true that once upon a time we had access to Internet Explorer on a Mac, but, nowadays, Microsoft doesn't even let you download the older Mac-compatible versions on their website. On the other hand, you can check this nice work over here: http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/ it basically lets you install emulated (on DarWine) versions of IE. It is quite stable and pretty much works.

Hope that helps, even though I know that testing it in Explorer will only rise more headaches and problem. Sometimes I wish I could ignore it.

Cheers,

Lucio