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In message <lymU12kTBBx9IAau@musonix.demon.co.uk>, John Robertson
<john@musonix.demon.co.uk> writes
>I am looking for ways to smarten-up my web page and encourage repeat
>visitors, particularly by putting the name of my firm in the blue title bar at the
>top of the screen.
>
>But I can't get rid of the thing that says "browser provided by Demon
>Internet", however many hard spaces I put-in, and I imagine that everyone
>else's browser has this as well. Is there some way to over-ride the add from
>the web page, to give a cleaner look?

Short answer - no.

The contents of the "blue bar" in Internet Explorer are controlled by a
combination of the contents of the <title> tags and a text string
contained in the software (in IE's case the registry entry others have
mentioned).

In most cases it'll simply say "Microsoft Internet Explorer", so put
your company's name in the title tags and then leave be.

It's worth bearing in mind that when someone adds a site to their
"favourites" list then the contents of the title tag are what IE uses as
a default name for the site - it's helpful to users if this is sensible
and meaningful, so "John's Bolt Company" rather than "The cheapest bolts
on the Internet are here, MX16 bolts only #2 per dozen, MX3 bolts 2 quid
each., cannot be beaten on price", etc, etc.

>The browsers my customers use are
>MSIE 5     2107     50.69%
>MSIE 6     1580     38.01%
>Netscape 4     199     4.78%
>Netscape 6     90     2.16%

Well, that's what they claim to be.  Many browsers (but not, IIRC IE)
allow the user to set the ID string to anything they like - IIRC Google
has an entry for these somewhere, including one of this group's regular
contributor's "None of your damn business" or similar.. :-)

The best way to create a tidy look is to ensure everything on the page
is there for a good reason, keep the navigation simple and logical, and
ensure it works well in a variety of browsers.

-- 
 - Jack Howard, Systems Development Engineer, Firstnet Services Limited
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