How to Design a CSS Web Site for Both Firefox and Internet Explorer

Designing for IE - Design for Firefox First

Tips and Tricks to Get Your Site Looking Right in Both Browsers

Designing Web pages is challenging enough without having to build pages that work on every possible combination of Web browser and operating system in existence. So many Web designers choose to take the easy route and design just for the most popular browser, which is IE 6 right now.

But if you're going to focus your site on IE 6 you'll be causing some problems for yourself:

• When IE 7 comes out, your site will need to be redesigned.
• People who use other browsers won't get a good experience.
• If new browsers come out and gain popularity, chances are your site won't be able to support them.
  

Standards-Based Web Design Is Best

If you design for Web standards then your Web site will be functional with every browser that supports those standards. And even long into the future, your site will stay functional.

But Internet Explorer 6 and 5 are not standards compliant. So what do you do? The common response is to design just for them and then try to force your site to look okay in standards compliant browsers like Firefox, Safari and Opera. But this is both backwards and difficult.

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