Site issues with Internet Explorer
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Hello,
We have built a site for our clienthttp://www.kilvineparish.ie using Concrete5 to create a very simple site so they can edit content in some areas. The site tests fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even the most recent versions of Internet Explorer. However, our client is using IE8 and is constantly having issues viewing the site properly. Normally the homepage will load fine, but when she goes to access any of the other pages they either won't load anything or some of the content is missing. The site uses a custom theme and just a few add-ons for the rotating images at the top of the page. We have built a few other sites with Concrete5 and have never encountered similar issues. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks so much,
Jessica
designwest
We have built a site for our clienthttp://www.kilvineparish.ie using Concrete5 to create a very simple site so they can edit content in some areas. The site tests fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even the most recent versions of Internet Explorer. However, our client is using IE8 and is constantly having issues viewing the site properly. Normally the homepage will load fine, but when she goes to access any of the other pages they either won't load anything or some of the content is missing. The site uses a custom theme and just a few add-ons for the rotating images at the top of the page. We have built a few other sites with Concrete5 and have never encountered similar issues. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks so much,
Jessica
designwest
Thanks for your comments Irsah, I'm looking into a few of those things now. According to the screenshots the client has sent through it appears to be the C5 blocks specifically where the issues appear, the parts of the site done in just HTML/CSS are showing properly for the most part. I'm on a mac and don't have a computer with Explorer in order to test it in the browser directly. The scrolling images at the top and the main text area are the biggest issue, the navigation menu, right side links and top logo area seem to be okay. It's very strange.
Thanks again for your input.
Cheers,
Jessica
Thanks again for your input.
Cheers,
Jessica
Yeah sometimes these stuff do happen. Hope it worked out well.
Microsoft also has a new website to help troubleshoot problems with IE:
http://www.modern.ie/
It could give you hints or tips for making it more compatible with IE.
http://www.modern.ie/
It could give you hints or tips for making it more compatible with IE.
Indeed. Thanks for the share. I use it occasionally but really helps.
You can also check your theme for any unusual stuff going on (ie stylesheets and unreadable js for IE). Use the IE dev console to check on errors.
Normally c5 works ok with IE but unusal stuffs from themes (that i've encounter) like new CSS3 formats and unreadable js codes (by IE) just breaks it.
IE is quite strict too with css, sometimes unclosed elements/styles can break rendering. Things that we must go thru...
Use PIE.htc to help render those cool css3 stuffs (your theme) for styles not recognisable by IE esp 7.8 etc. Helps a lot.
p/s: There was a discussion on images size issue encountered (a few days back) on page stops/unusual rendering on browsers with c5 sites (possible IE) could have a look too.