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There's a popular adage In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. I would amend this to read In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and browser differences. I've written about this before , yet still we see the occasional confusion and naivete, reported in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken . Why does my blog look so good under Firefox, yet so scrambled under Internet Explorer? I can name three possible problems, which may be present in the template in any blog. Custom code. Old code. Third party code. Custom code . If you installed any template tweaks , did you test your changes in multiple browsers ? Old code . Blogger releases various changes , in the templates which they provide. If you got your template last year, there may be a fix that could help you, this year. Third party code . I've published various warnings about third party code. This article continues that series. In case you s...

Many bloggers, grown weary of the periodic and unpredictable nature of the ubiquitous Not Found Error 404 and its cousins, the old Another blog is already hosted at this address and the newer Blogs may not be hosted at naked domains errors, are losing their grip. Recently, we see too frequently I tired of worrying about it, just published my blog to www.mydomain.com, and decided to forget about the option Redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. Imagine my surprise when I typed "mydomain.com" into the browser address window, and up popped the blog! Those of us experienced with this issue simply ask Were you using the Firefox browser? and following the surprised reply Yes, but how did you know? we explain Firefox does this automatically. If Firefox gets a "404" when retrieving "mydomain.com", it automatically tries for "www.mydomain.com", and vice versa. Not all browsers work this way. Anybody using Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, ... is...

As you surf the web, and read various web sites, you'll occasionally notice oddities. Following one link, you'll see one version of a web site; following a second link, you'll see the same web page, but with different content. Obviously, the web page was updated, between the first time that you visited it, and the second time. Nothing odd there. But here's the oddity. You visit the web site a third time, using the first link, and you see the same, older content. Then you check the second link again, and it shows the newer content again. What's going on here?

OK, you've got a kick ass web site. It's attractive, has good content, and it's nicely organised. Then you get email from your friend Dude, your web site is crap. How did this happen? You think it looks great. Frequently, this happens when you design and test your blog for one browser, and your friend uses another. Firefox and Internet Explorer, which use differing code and display standards, are famous for this problem.