There’s a wonderful set of Tools that comes bundled with Firefox called ‘Web Developer Tools’. You can use those to figure out what is what and where is where on your layout.
Also, a good way to start troubleshooting is to validate the code for the site. An attempt to validate your code produced 26 errors and where a lot of them are flash-related, there are several that seem to be hinting at the fact that maybe you forgot to close some tags.
So. Go look at your coding and see if you’ve forgotten to close some tags. Don’t just look at the coding on your theme, though! Look at the coding for your POSTS! Posts get translated into code and if you copied and pasted or typed in bad/garbage coding, you can ‘break’ your theme/layout because of it or even break the functionality of your entire site.
I just opened up the site in IE 5 (wooo! older browser than yours!) and according to IE, besides the fact that your right-hand sidebar fails to load any content, you’ve got yourself one random <!--[endif]--> tag appearing right next to your big RSS icon that’s in your ‘How to Use RSS Feeds’ post.
… Okay. I’m going to take five or ten to read your source code. Quite frankly, it gives me a headache to look at.
You need to clean up your code – especially for such a content-heavy and GUI-heavy site, and BADLY.
I’ll repost again once I’m done reading.
… Nevermind. I don’t need five more minutes.
If you open up the source code and scroll dooown to your posts, you see a bunch of green text, yeah?
That green text is a ‘leftover’ from copying and pasting content from MS Word to TinyMCE to WordPress.
Firefox and Safari and Opera will parse the conditional statements stated in that green text, but IE will not.
So what you’re seeing is IE coughing and refusing to render any more of your site because it can’t get past the conditional statements.
Here’s WP documentation on it that I found: HERE
To fix this problem, might I suggest using a simple text-only file/document editor and learning the markup code necessary to render things like lists and links and such?
Additionally, your images in your list in that RSS Feed post will never show up for anyone except you since you linked to your local computer directory instead of linking to a directory within your website.
Wow, thanks for all the tips to sort through. As you may have guessed, Im new at this. All I did was change fonts in the theme I downloaded but my coding skills aren’t developed enough to catch what you saw.
Thanks for taking the time, I really appreciate it … I may be back.
I installed the Firefox tools and they are very helpful however, I’m not sure how the html document that is viewed in “view page source” relates to the php files. I get an error that references “Line 137” when index.php only goes to 53 lines.
I’m sure there is a simple explanation but which document do I edit? There is no index.html in my ftp and the info in the php does not relate to the html “view source”.
thanks
It’s the way you post posts that needs to be ‘edited’.
Am I right in saying that you created your post in MS Word and then copied and pasted?
What you need to edit are your posts themselves. How exactly you’ll do that, I don’t know as I don’t copy and paste from MS Word when I write posts.
Try opening up your posts in the WP editor and withOUT using MS Word, rewrite your most recent RSS Feed post and save the file and go to http://www.franklinj.com/blog and view the source and see if you see that green text I was talking about earlier in the RSS Feed post.
You are correct, I pasted from word. I went to the HTML view within the WP editor and deleted extra junk- that seems o have taken care of it..
I still see lots of green but it looks much better in IE.
Where would the text “advertisement” reside? I did a word search on all the phps and can find it.
Thanks much for the assistance!!!!!
How can I remove the links on my previous posts? I should have written (.) com
