[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

have you verified that your code is cross-browser compatible? if not, google “flash cross browser” (sans quotes) and you should find lots of good examples…

if you have then let us know and we can go to the next step!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i’ve used video for everybody in the past:

https://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

i looked at video.js, but licensing made me not want to use it (it’s open source, but any improvements or changes you make have to be pushed back into the product and made available – somewhat of a pain, and i recall it needed some tweaking for my needs)…

there are a ton of them out there, and it’s really not rocket science to do your own, either (it really just boils down to embed tags)…but give a few a try and see what your personal preference is!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not that i know of – can you use html5 video? is that an option? then you can make it whatever dimension you want and have a flash fallback for older browsers…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i will say that it’s hard to put my finger exactly on what you don’t like about the layout – the blue bg loads (although it’s way too large for the web – it’s 3mb (3000KB), and a good bg should be more in the 100KB range) – when you say it’s all over the place, what do you mean?

the map bg is also very large file-size (325KB), so you will have visitors who say your site loads very slow…by cut off, do you mean that the map ends below the content on ie9?

it’s very hard for me to isolate one specific thing for you that will fix this, i’m afraid – i could go through your css and try to guess, but your code looks to be software-generated – is that the case? if so, it is harder for a human to look at it and find obvious flaws.

in general, you have very specific measurements on a lot of thigs (i.e. make this div X x Y pixels) – in web land you want to avoid this if at all possible, so removing those might help you as well – you can use percentages or just let the browser dom take over…but this is more advanced layout stuff that is harder for me to answer in this medium. :-/

sorry to not be able to isolate the smoking gun here – but go through your code and remove as many of the hard-coded pixel dimensions for things wherever possible – that would be a first step…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ahh i missed that one – it won’t impact much, but ya – the “transparent” keyword for a bg color doesn’t have the hash mark on it like a hex color would – so you would say either:

background-color: transparent;

or:

background-color: #dd0000;

however the default setting for background-color in a cell is transparent, so you don’t need to specify that in most cases (i.e. you can remove that attribute). the only time i’ve personally used it is in a larger background declaration where i have a background image and i don’t want to have a bg color if the loading of the image gets delayed – like this:

background: transparent url(‘/path/to/bg.gif’) no-repeat left top;

otherwise you probably don’t need to declare it…make sense?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

can you expand on the zoom thing? do you mean when you make the font size bigger via the browser option? or when you change your screen resolution?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i would start by getting rid of those – again i’ve never used those myself with css so i don’t know if they would make certain browsers grumpy, but it’s worth a shot to see – they aren’t doing anything positive regardless…

i will try to get time over on my pc today to look at this in ie there to see what else might come to mind – but with css, there are always going to be some gotchas across browsers like this…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – first things first. your home page css calls are to your local box as opposed to the copies on the server. on the other pages you have it correctly as:

but on the home page, it’s:

that won’t work online as we don’t have access to your hard drive… 🙂

as for the menu – i am on my mac right now and don’t have access to ie, but for starters, you can remove the decimal pixel values – you can’t place things at part of a pixel, so things like (for example) 48.2px can just be 48px…never seen anybody do that, so i’m not sure if that was generated for you or not? that also might be making browsers grumpy, so i’d start there.

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

this one is good for that:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/

it’s not the most friendly interface but you can do just about whatever you want (including the basic part of sending an email)

i’ve used it on a site for a while now and been happy with it!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

if you’re going to spam the board, you should probably at least make sure that the hyperlink to your site works…