Now I’m not sure about you, but I really do hate websites that are stuck on the left of the screen, and from talking to a few friends, I know I’m not alone with this pet hate. The thing is, that many beginner site designers may also dislike this left alignment, but simply do not know how to make their site appear in the center of the screen, but others may have centered their site absolutely perfect in their favourite browser, but are totally unaware that it may not be centered in others.
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For many web designers and developers, getting a website to look and function the same in different browsers can often be a challenge. This challenge is often made even more difficult when trying to achieve the same appearance across Microsofts hugely different versions of it’s Internet Explorer browser – none of the IE browsers have ever complied to web standards, and each different version comes with it’s own quirks to deal with. So you would think you could just install all the different versions and test your web pages in each of them…wrong, it’s often impossible to get all the different versions (namely IE6, IE7 and IE8) running on the same computer, especially if you are running Windows Vista which will not let you install IE6 at all.

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