[Mike Smith]

OK they look extremely similar here on IE9 and FF8 on Win 7. What version of IE on what platform is troubling you (and does that version / platform combo have much market share …?)

But you do have some code errors, including a div issue, which might be worth correcting, and which may account for some differences in browser rendering. – you could peek at
https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Flavishsalonspa.co%2F
and
https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flavishsalonspa.co%2F&profile=css3&usermedium=all&warning=1&vextwarning=&lang=en

[Mike Smith]

Couple of things you could look at, once you’ve read Ogilvy!

https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/02/15/the-psychology-of-advertising/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence:_Science_and_Practice

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marketing-Behavioural-Analysis-Peter-Chisnall/dp/0070841500

https://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0071769714.html

[Mike Smith]

I’m in the renegotiate camp. If you want to give time and equipment time away, find a worthwhile charity or a project that interests you personally / might advance your career.

[Mike Smith]

I don’t think you can get transparency support in mp4 / h/264 files, for the video tag (though you can in flv). The links below discuss and show a workaround that might be worth the effort for you.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4073303/can-i-have-a-video-with-transparent-background-using-html5-video-tag

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5055962/how-to-create-an-h264-video-with-an-alpha-channel-for-use-with-html5-canvas

Animated gif might work for you, if you can live with the reduced colour palette.

Png support in various browsers has always been patchier than it should be, but there is some support for animated pngs – have a peek at https://people.mozilla.com/~dolske/apng/demo.html

[Mike Smith]

Won’t the hyperlinks only work in the Flash player – don’t tbey depend on Flash player functionality for reading the button click and for web navigation ? So did you try putting your flv into a Flash video player and testing from there ..?

https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4c2844ce30708a23&hl=en

https://forums.adobe.com/message/2312184

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSC86D69F5-0CFD-4e77-B440-2435A176FE8C.html

https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=638b87e4f16b7c64&hl=en

[Mike Smith]

Thanks Jeff

[Mike Smith]

OK even after allowing for IE8 resizing it looks like there is an issue on IE.

To debug, two strands might be worthwhile :

make a very simple page with just some text and a simple image, and see if you get the same issue

you have a lot of javascript in your troublesome page – including functions called something like startIeFix()and endIeFix() ; would it be an idea to comment out all the script elements – or disable javascript in your IE – and retest the page, to see if the problem is originating with the javascript ? If it is, you could try putting th escript elements back one at a time, to see which is causing the issue …

[Mike Smith]

IE 8 may be setting a higher default zoom level than 100. You can check in your settings / zoom dialogue.

Does this help, from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/287975/why-does-everything-seem-bigger-in-internet-explorer

” It is probably related to your DPI setting of your windows desktop.
See this article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc849094.aspx on the subject.

Excerpt from article:

“Scaling the Web

By default, Internet Explorer 8 will zoom the content of a Web page to match your Windows DPI Scaling settings. (This is a change from Internet Explorer 7, which did not zoom to match Windows DPI Scaling settings.) For example, if you set the DPI Scaling to 120 DPI, Internet Explorer 8 will zoom the content of a Web page by 125%, because scaling is done relative to 96 DPI, and 120/96 equals 1.25, or 125%. This is reflected in the Zoom UI in the bottom-right corner of the browser window:”

[Mike Smith]

Could this be a temporary default zoom size issue …? With Firefox you can reset the view / zoom size to default with ctrl + 0, and I guess you can do something similar in Safari …?

There’s not much sign of variation in view magnification in this early browsershot
https://browsershots.org/https://www.jabsgallery.info/#

[Mike Smith]

You have lots of errors in your code, as you can see from https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oslcontemporary.com%2Falternative2%2FOSLcontemporary%2Fartists%2Fartists-AKDolven-works.html

This makes it harder to get consistent rendering in different browsers and platforms.

Here, IE9 on Win 7 64bit is not showing your main images at all. I don’t know why. But your long file names with commas raised my eyebrows!