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It will be frustrating job to find out what has gone wrong with your Web design. Some of the things will be impossible to fix and some other things will be difficult and can be fixed but if you are very much systematic regarding your analysis, you can fix the problem very quickly.
Your HTML should be validated
Whenever you have the problem with your WebPages, do validate your HTML. There are several reasons behind validating your HTML but when you have a problem in your WebPages do validate your HTML. There are a many people who validate HTML automatically. If you have the habit of validating your HTML every now and then, it is well and good. By validating, it makes sure that it’s not a small problem.
CSS should be validated
The next place where you will have most problems is with CSS. Validating CSS serves same as validating HTML. If there are some errors, validation will make sure that, there will be no problem with CSS and that will be not the cause of your problems.
Validate other dynamic elements and your JavaScript
As validating your CSS and HTML you have to validate your JavaScript, JSP, PHP and other dynamic elements.
Simplify your Pages
If you have been validating your CSS and HTML regularly and it didn’t help, you have to narrow down the pages to fix the problem. One of the easiest ways is to delete some portions of the page until the problem is solved. Now, you have to cut down your CSS in similar manner. The thought behind simplifying your page is not that you will leave the entire page with the fixed amount of content but you are focusing on how to solve the problem that has occurred.
Subtract and add back
Finally if you have found the problem, narrow down the page and start subtracting the elements that give you problems. For example: if you have found the problem in certain division and along with CSS that styles the division, start to delete each line one by one.
After every removal test your page. If you have removed or fixed the problem you will come to know what kind of problem is that. Once you have solved the problem, begin adding the elements that you have erased and ensure that you have to test the page after every change. When designing a Webpage, you will come to know certain little things will make vast difference. You have to test the page after every check because you will come to know that place where the problem is occurred.
First design WebPages for standard compliant browsers
The most common problem faced by these Web designers is around getting the pages looking similar in all the Websites. It is impossible sometimes or difficult to have all the pages of all the Websites to have the pages similarly.
Keep your code simple
Once you have solved all the problems, you have to keep watching that similar problem doesn’t arise again.