By Cesar O. This is a topic that, as a web designer, I don’t like a whole lot, because compatibility for IE6 in websites costs time, effort and money; but this is not the main problem, the main problem is that you can spend more time (and I have seen this several times) making your site work for IE6 than actually creating the whole website; so, How can you minimize this? How can you reduce the cost of compatibility with IE6? There are some simple steps you can take to try and ensure compatibility and/or reduce the time you spend making it work for IE6. 1-      From conception, from the first line of html you start typing, remember that this is supposed to work for IE6. What I mean by ...

By Cesar Olivas When you start creating a website, you have to make some choices before you start. Some of these choices are using HTML or XHTML, Tables or Divs, Floats or Position, Inline Styling, etc. In this post I will give you some explanation of all the elements that you usually need to choose from. DoctypeEvery website needs to have a doctype declared, failing to do so may result on your page rendered ineffectively.  The best way is declaring a doctype like xhtml transitional, strict or html 4.01 and help meet standard requirements. As a personal experience, this has been an issue in SharePoint implementations, since default masterpages do not include a doctype. In a customizatio...