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jeremyc4
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

http://www.votekerrydonley.com/

Can anyone see anything obvious that's making ALL the text on this site appear CENTERED in IE while it's correctly aligned to the left in FF?

Here's my theme's StyleSheet

/*
	Theme Name: CognoBlue
	Theme URL: http://www.blogsdna.com/cognoblue-wordpress-theme
	Description: Three column, Search Engine Optimized, Widget Ready, Adsense  optimized,Adsense Friendly, Supporting tags & Gravatars, Lightweight WordPress v2.7 Compatible Professional Wordpress Theme from <a href="http://www.blogsdna.com"><strong>BlogsDNA</strong></a>.
	Author: blogsdna
	Author URI: http://www.blogsdna.com
	Version: 1.0
	The CSS, XHTML and Design is released under GPL:
	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
	Tags: blue, widget ready, fixed width, three columns,  3 colums, widgets, adsense, seo, adsense ready, custom header, gravatar support, sidebar left, sidebar right,  widget sidebar, seo adsense, XHTML, blue theme
*/

/* reset
--------------------------------------------------*/
body,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,form,hr {margin:0;padding:0;}
.low {display:none;}
.clear {clear:both;}

hr {
border:1px solid #333333;
}

/* body
--------------------------------------------------*/
body {
  color:#464646; /*#333;*/
  background:#666666;
  margin:0;
  padding:0 0;
  font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size:75%;
  line-height:1.8em;
  text-align: left; /*Important*/
}

/* headings
--------------------------------------------------*/

h1 {color:#14568A; font-family:Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
h1 a  {color:#14568A;}
h2 {
   color:#14568A;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   line-height:1.2em;
   font-size:1.6em;
}
h2 a {color:#14568A; font-weight: normal ; text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid !important;}
h2 a:hover { color:#CC0000;  text-decoration:none;}
h4 {
 font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color: #14568A;
 font-weight: normal;
 margin: 7px 0 7px 0px;
 font-size:1.5em;
 line-height:1.5em;
 padding:5px 0;
}
h3 a, h4 a
  {color:#14568A; font-weight: normal;}
h3 a:hover,h4 a:hover
  {color:#CC0000; text-decoration:none;} 

a {color:#14568A; text-decoration:none;}
a img {border:0 !important; }
a:hover {color: #CC0000; text-decoration:none;}

/* links
--------------------------------------------------*/
.entry a {text-decoration:underline;}

.entry img a {
border-bottom: 0px dotted #ccc !important;
text-decoration:none;
  }

.entry p {padding: 0 0 15px;}

.entry a:hover {color: #003AAA; text-decoration:underline;}

img a {border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid !important;}

a.commentlink {padding-left:0px;}

.entry .filedunderindex a {
text-decoration:none !important;
border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid !important;
  }
 .entry .filedunderindex a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
color: #C22463;
}

small {
	font-family: verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 1em;
	line-height: 1.5em;
        color: #666;
        padding: 5px 0;
	}

small a {
	color: #999;
    text-decoration:underline;
	}

/* topbar
------------------------------------------------*/

#topbar {
		font-family: verdana,Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
		font-size: 1em ;
		font-weight:Bold;
		line-height: 1.3em;
		background: #14568A;
		margin: 0 0 0 0;
		color: #333333;
		}
#topbar a,a:hover {
          color: #fff;
          text-decoration:none;
          }
#topbar ul {
			 padding-bottom:7px;
			 padding-top:7px;
			 margin:0 0 0 10px;
			   }
#topbar ul ul{display:inline;}
#topbar ul li {
		list-style-type:none;
		display:inline;
	       }
#topbar li {
             padding-left:10px;
     	     padding-right:10px;
	       }

/* images
--------------------------------------------------*/
img.left {
  float:left;
  margin:0 12px 0 0;
}

img.right {
  float:right;
  margin:0 0 0 12px;
}

img.center {
  display: block;
  margin:0 auto;
}

/* paragraphs, lists, blockquote  etc
--------------------------------------------------*/
pre, code  {
font: 1.1em 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed;
}

kbr {color:#009193;}

p {
  margin:0;
  padding:0 0 18px 0;
}

ul {
  margin:0 0 0 1.4em;
  padding:0 0 10px 0;
}

ul ul {padding:0;}

/*blockquote {
  margin:0;
  border-bottom:1px solid #14568A;
  border-left:4px solid #14568A;
  border-right:1px solid #14568A;
  border-Top:1px solid #14568A;
  padding-bottom:3px;
  padding-left:4px;
  padding-right:3px;
  padding-top:3px;
  font-style:italic;
  color: #333;
  overflow:hidden;
} */

blockquote {
background:#F4F5F7 url(images/blockquote.gif) no-repeat;
border:1px dashed #CCCCCC;
margin:5px 0pt;
padding:8px 12px 8px 36px;
}

pre {
  overflow:auto;
  margin:0 0 18px 0;
  padding:4px;
  border:1px dashed #CCCCCC;
}

pre, code, kbr {font-family: Courier, Monaco, monospace;}

code, kbr {padding:0 2px;}

abbr, acronym {
  font-size:0.9em;
  letter-spacing:1px;
  cursor:help;
}

#top {background:url(images/top.gif) no-repeat;
      padding-left:16px;}

#s {background:url(images/search.gif) no-repeat;
    padding-left:18px;}

/* Next post link
---------------------------------------------------*/
.nextright {
	float: right;
   font-size:0.9em;
	}

.nextleft {
	float: left;
   font-size:0.9em;
	}

/* container
--------------------------------------------------*/
#container {
  padding-top:0;
  background: #fff;
  width:980px;
  margin: 0px auto;
  padding: 0px;
  text-align:left;
  margin-top:25px;
  margin-bottom:25px;
  overflow:hidden;
}

#commentspopup #container {
  width:455px;
  padding:0 15px;
}

/* header
--------------------------------------------------*/
#header {
		 background:url(images/header-bg.gif);
		 color: white;
		 height:120px;
		 padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
		 margin-top:10px;
		 margin-left:10px;
		 margin-right:10px;
		 margin-bottom:10px;
		 border:1px solid #DDDDDD;
		 overflow:hidden;
		 text-align:center;
		 }
.singlecol #content a {
					  font-weight: normal;
					  }

#header a,a:hover {text-decoration:none;color:white;}
#header small {color:white;}
#header h1 {color:white; margin:10px; }

/* navigation
--------------------------------------------------*/
#navigation {
		background:#F2F2F2;
		width:958px;
		border:1px solid #DDDDDD;
		height:32px;
		}
#navigation a {
color:#003AAA;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration:none;
       }
#navigation .selected,
#navigation a:hover
  {color:#000;}
#navigation li a:hover {
			background:#000000;
			color:white;
                            }

#navigation {
  line-height:2.5em;
  padding: 0 0;
  margin: 0 auto;
  }

#navigation a {
  padding:0 0px;
  font-size:0.9em;
  text-transform:uppercase;
  }

#navigation ul {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}

#navigation li {
  float:left;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  list-style-type:none;
  border:1px solid #fff;
  white-space:nowrap;
}

#navigation li a {
  display:block;
  padding:0 10px;
  font-size:0.9em;
  text-transform:uppercase;
  }

/* Post Title
--------------------------------------------------*/
.post-title {
border-bottom:1px dotted #14568A;
display:block;
font-family:Georgia,serif;
font-size:1.7em !important;
line-height:1.2em;
margin:10px 0px 5px 0px !important;
padding:5px 0pt;
}

/* content
--------------------------------------------------*/
#content {
  float:left;
  width:540px;
  margin-top:10px;
  padding-right:10px;
  padding-left:10px;
  margin-bottom:20px;
  background: #fff;
  font-size:1em;
  display:inline;
  overflow:hidden;
}
#content h1 {
   color:#333333;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   line-height:1.4em;
   margin:0 0 8px 0;
   font-size:1.5em;
}
#content a {color:#14568A; text-decoration:none;}
#content a:hover{color:#CC0000; text-decoration:none;} 

#content h2 {
  color:#333333;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin:0 0 8px 0 ;
  font-size:1.5em;
}

#content h1 a,h2 a, h3 a, h4 a {font-weight: normal;}
#content h3 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1.3em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#333333;
}
#content h4 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1.1em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#333333;
}
#content h5 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#333333;
}
#content h6 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:0.8em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#333333;
}
#content ol {margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;}

#content.archive h2 {margin:0 0 8px 0;}
#content.archive h3 {
  margin:0 0 10px 0;
  font-family:Georgia, serif;
  font-size:1.3em;
  font-weight:normal;
}
#content.archive h4 {
  margin:0 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1em;
}
#content.archive h5 {
  margin:0;
  font-size:1em;
}
.singlecol #content {
  float:left;
  width:470px;
}

#commentspopup #content {
  float:none;
  padding-top:0;
}

/* Post_nav post navigation	on index post
----------------------------------------------------*/
#post_nav  {border-top:1px solid #14568A;
			font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
			font-size:11px;
			font-size-adjust:none;
			font-stretch:normal;
			font-style:normal;
			font-variant:normal;
			font-weight:bold;
			line-height:normal;
			margin:15px 0pt 25px;
			padding:5px 0pt;
			overflow:hidden;
             }
#post_nav .back {
display:block;
float:left;
width:45%;
}

#post_nav .fwrd {
display:block;
float:right;
}

/* single_Post_nav post navigation	on single post
----------------------------------------------------*/
#single_post_nav  {border-top:1px solid #14568A;
			font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
			margin:15px 0pt 25px;
			padding:5px 0pt;
             }
#single_post_nav .back {
display:block;
}

#single_post_nav .fwrd {
display:block;
}

/* Entry
--------------------------------------------------*/
#content li
{margin-bottom: 3px;}

.entry a.more {
  padding-left:12px;
}

.contenttitle {
   color:#C22463;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-family: georgia, serif;
   line-height:1.2em;
   margin:0 0 5px 0;
   font-size:1.9em;
   padding: 5px;
   background: #f9f9f9;
   border-bottom: 2px #f3f3f3 solid;
   border-top: 2px #f3f3f3 solid;
}

.entry {margin:0 0 7px 0;}

.entry .info {
  position:relative;
  margin-top:-3px;
  padding:3px;
  font-size:0.9em;
}

.entry.single {clear:both;}

.entry.single .info {margin:0 0 22px 0;}

.entry .info a {
  margin: 0 2px;
  padding: 0 2px;
}

.entry .info em {
  padding-right:6px;
  font-style:normal;
}

.entry .author,
.entry .editlink a {
  margin:0;
  padding:0 0 0 10px;
  border-left:1px solid;
  border-right:none
}

/* POST META
---------------------------------------------------*/
#postmeta{
          text-transform:uppercase;
		  color:#999999;
		  font-family:arial;
		  font-size:0.8em;
		  margin-bottom:5px;
		  overflow:hidden;
		  margin-top:5px;
          }
#postmeta a,a:visited{color:#003366;}
#postmeta a:hover {color:#CC0000;}
.postmetabox {border:1px solid #DDDDDD; padding:3px;}

/* edit link style code
---------------------------------------------------*/
#elink {color:#cc0000;
        font-size:bold;}

/* Comments	Display Style Code
--------------------------------------------------*/
#comments{
		font-family:verdana;
		margin-top:15px;
         }
   /*Readers Comment Title*/
#comments h4 {  font-size:1.4em !important;
				text-transform:none;
				border-bottom:1px solid #DDDDDD;
				margin:0;
				padding:0;
				font-weight:bold;
				font-family:Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
             }
.comment {margin:0px;
		  margin-top:8px;
		  margin-bottom:15px;
          padding:0px;
		  width:540px;
		  overflow:hidden;
		  }

#comments .comment .ucomment p {margin:0px !important;
                     padding:0px;}

.ucomment {margin:0px;
		   padding:0px;
		   border-bottom:1px solid #DDDDDD;
          }
#comments .comment .ucomment p {margin:0px !important;
                     padding:0px;}
.mcomment {margin:0px;
		   padding:0px;
		   border-bottom:1px solid #DDDDDD;
		   background:#F4F7FC;
          }
#comments .comment .mcomment p {margin:0px !important;
                     padding:0px;}

.tcomment {margin:0px;
		   padding:0px;
		   /*border-bottom:1px solid #DDDDDD;*/
		   /*background:#F4F7FC;*/
          }
 #comments .comment .tcomment p {margin:0px !important;
                     padding:0px;}

.ucomment_meta {margin:0px;
				padding:0px;
				font-family:arial;
				font-size:0.8em;
				/*border-top:1px solid #DDDDDD;*/
				text-transform:uppercase;
                color:#999999;
				display:inline;
				}
.ucomment_meta_dt {margin:0px;
				padding:0px;
				font-family:arial;
				font-size:0.8em;
				/*border-top:1px solid #DDDDDD;*/
				text-transform:uppercase;
                color:#999999;
				display:inline;
				width:10px;
                     }
.avatar img {float:left;}

/* AddComment Comment Adding Form Style code
--------------------------------------------------*/
#addcomment { margin-top:15px;
			  border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
			  padding-top:10px;
			  padding-left:10px;
			  padding-right:10px;
			  padding-bottom:0px;
			 /* margin: 10px; Commented for IE fix*/
			  font-size:0.9em;
			  background:#F4F7FC;
			  font:verdana,Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
			  width:488px;
               }
#addcomment h4 { font-size:1.4em !important;
				text-transform:none;
				margin:0;
				padding:0;
				font-weight:bold;
				font-family:Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
				}
#addcomment p {margin:0px;
            padding:0px;
            padding-bottom:5px;
            padding-top:5px;}

.form-item { width:170px;
             float:left;
             }
#addcomment input {width:150px; margin:0px; padding:4px; height:16px;}

#addcomment textarea {width:470px;
                      font:verdana,Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
					  font-size:14px;
					  margin-top:5px;
					  margin-bottom:5px;
					  height:190px;
					  padding:5px;}

#addcomment #comment-name {
			   display:block;
			  }

#addcomment .desc {color:#999999;
                   font-size:0.8em;
				   text-transform:capitalize;
				   font:verdana,Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif !important;
				   width:180px;
                   }
#addcomment input#submit {  background-color:#4F8ACE;
							border-color:#93BFEE rgb(50, 92, 142) rgb(50, 92, 142) rgb(147, 191, 238);
							border-style:solid;
							border-width:1px;
							color:#FFFFFF;
							font-family:arial,sans-serif;
							font-size:11px;
							font-weight:bold;
							padding:2px;
							width:110px;
							}

div.search input#searchbtn, input#comment-submit, input#searchsubmit {
							background-color:#4F8ACE;
							border-color:#93BFEE rgb(50, 92, 142) rgb(50, 92, 142) rgb(147, 191, 238);
							border-style:solid;
							border-width:1px;
							color:#FFFFFF;
							font-family:arial,sans-serif;
							font-size:13px;
							font-weight:bold;
							padding:2px;
							height:25px;
							margin-top:5px;
							margin-bottom:5px;
							}
.nocomments {font-weight:bold;
              color:#003366;}

/* content misc
--------------------------------------------------*/
/*#entrynavigation {border-color:#F3F4F4;}

 .editlink {
  position:absolute;
  height:14px;
  width:14px;
  right:2px;
} 

.next a {float:right;}
.previous a {float:left;}*/

html>body .editlink {bottom:6px;}
.entry .info .editlink a,
.minientry .editlink a,
#comments li .editlink a {
  display:block;
  height:14px;
  width:14px;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  border:none;
  font-size:1px; /* IEWin */
  line-height:0; /* IEWin */
  text-indent:-9999px;
}
.entry .info .editlink a:hover,
.minientry .editlink a:hover,
#comments li .editlink a:hover
  {background:none;}

/* footer
--------------------------------------------------*/
#footer {
  color:#666;
  font-weight:normal;
  background: #fff;
  clear:both;
  padding: 20px 10px 5px 10px;
  font-size:0.9em;
  text-align:center;
  }

#footer a {
color: #0066cc;
text-decoration:none;
}
#footer strong {font-weight:normal;}
#footer a:hover {
color: #000;
}

#footer p {
  padding: 5px 10px 10px 0px;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 2em;
}

.alignright {float:right;}

/* Sidebar Properties
---------------------------------------------------*/
.sidebar {font:1em;
          color:#464646;
		  overflow:auto;}
.sidebar h1 {
   color:#003366;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   line-height:1.4em;
   margin:0 0 8px 0;
   font-size:1.5em;
}
.sidebar a,a:hover,a:visited{color:#14568A; text-decoration:none;}

.sidebar h2 {
  color:#003366;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin:0 0 8px 0 ;
  font-size:1.5em;
}
.sidebar h3 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1.3em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#003366;
}
.sidebar h4 {
  margin:2px;
  padding:0px;
  font-size:1.2em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#003366;
}

#sidebar_l<.sidebar_box h4 a,h1 a,h2 a, h3 a {font-weight:bold;}

.sidebar h5 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:1em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#003366;
}
.sidebar h6 {
  margin: 10px 0 18px 0;
  font-size:0.8em;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-family: Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  margin:0 0 8px 0;
  line-height:1.4em;
  color:#003366;
}
.sidebar_box{
			background:#F6F6F6 none repeat scroll 0% 50%;
			border:1px solid #DDDDDD;
			margin-top:5px;
			margin-bottom:10px;
			padding-left:14px;
			padding-right:5px;
			padding-top:10px;
			padding-bottom:10px;
			position:relative;
		    overflow:hidden;
			}

.sidebar ul li {
list-style-type:decimal;
}
.sidebar li {
line-height:1.4em;
padding:3px 0pt;
}

/* left sidebar
--------------------------------------------------*/
#sidebar_l {
			/*float:left;*/
			width:200px;
			border:solid 0px;
			margin-left:10px;
			font-size:0.9em;
			}

/* right sidebar
--------------------------------------------------*/
#sidebar_r {
			float:right;
			width:200px;
			border:solid 0px;
			margin-right:10px;
			font-size:0.9em;
			overflow:auto;
		 	}

/* Wordpress Widget Related CSS Code
--------------------------------------------------*/
#wp-calendar {
	/*border: 1px solid #ddd;*/
	empty-cells: show;
	font-size: 0.9em;
	margin: 0;
	width: 90%;
}

#wp-calendar #next a {
	padding-right: 10px;
	text-align: right;
}

#wp-calendar #prev a {
	padding-left: 10px;
	text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight:bold;
}

#wp-calendar a:hover {
/*	background: #e0e6e0; */
background:white;
	color: #333;
}

#wp-calendar caption {
	color: #14568A;
	text-align: center;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size:1.2em;
}

#wp-calendar td {
/*	color: #ccc;*/
	font: normal 12px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, sans-serif;
	letter-spacing: normal;
	padding: 2px 0;
	text-align: center;
}

#wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
	background: #fff;
}

#wp-calendar td:hover, #wp-calendar #today {
	background: #eee;
	color:#003366;
}

#wp-calendar th {
	font-style: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
}

/* Captions & aligment */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
	display: block;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
	float: left;
}

.alignright {
	float: right;
}

.wp-caption {
	border: 1px solid #ddd;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
	padding-top: 4px;
	margin: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 17px;
	padding: 0 4px 5px;
	margin: 0;
}
/* End captions & aligment */

iridiax
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

You have an unclosed center tag, which is a likely culprit. Here's what the validator says:

Line 61, Column 372: end tag for "center" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
…ploads/2009/01/youtube-icon.png></div>

Different browsers react differently to errors.

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Same problem here. How do you arrange this?

Thanks

kmessinger
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

jeremyc4
Correct the errors listed here, http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.votekerrydonley.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Once you have corrected coded, the IE error will probably go away.

baal666 Same suggestion for you. Also please post your URL when looking for help.

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

My website is http://maigrir-le-dernier-regime.com and something is really not working there.

I checked with the validator but wasn't sure what is the exact problem causing this.

Thanks

iridiax
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

baal666: Get rid of or change your home page meta description and keywords (from the seo plugin?) because they have bad, non-web-friendly characters. Also, your theme has a fluid width, when it should have a fixed width to work with that particular design. Because of the fluid width, your right sidebar pops down to the bottom of the page with narrower browser windows.

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

@iridiax: Thank you very much. I simply deleted the meta information and everything works well now.

Thanks! :)

I have three questions BTW if you can help me:

1) How can I put relevant meta information without making the site crash like this?

2) I use All-in-one SEO plugin. Can I use it to make meta considering I only write pages and that A-I-O does not seem to be able to add meta to pages?

3) Why are characters on the site so small with IE6?

Thanks a lot!

iridiax
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

How can I put relevant meta information without making the site crash like this?

The problem was due to unusual characters or accents that my computer strangely interpreted as Chinese and which totally confused the validator. They were likely not UTF-8. You'll be safe if you stick to regular keyboard letters for meta tag stuff. Actually, having both the correctly accented version of a word and the non-accented version is a seo benefit because searchers often don't use the accents when searching for something.

As for the seo plugin and IE6, I don't use either of them, so unfortunately I can't help you with them.

kmessinger
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

baal666 You still have several errors on your site.

Also you can do your own meta and place it into the header.php file. For example from one of my blogs . . .
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="Description" content="News, commentary, and observations." />
<meta name="Keywords" content="obama, politics, democrat, republican, bail out, mortages, banks, congress, senate, house of representatives, supreme court, constitution" />
<meta name="Author" content="webmaster@savethecolors.com" />
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="09B7BEA56D67456C86364E1947CCB627" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="5r5zVAvDoPNVX8L7bEs7MizTpwCS8yOvN5bLR283600=" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress" />

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Hmmm this is weird. I used normal french caracters for the meta information: é, è, à, ê, etc. Is there a way to make the header meta information automatic, depending on the page? I know that All-in-one allows to do this with articles, but what about pages? That would surely be easier...

BTW, most of the errors I get from the validator comes from the Amazon widget. How can I correct this and why would amazon gives me a widget with such errors in it?

Thanks a lot for your help!

kmessinger
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Your meta looks fine to me. I do not see any unusual characters. Your site looks correct as far as text alignment, etc. in IE7.

Most of the errors being reported are & errors which are easily corrected by putting amp; next to any &. There are a few other errors I think you can figure out. Amazon and others commonly use code with just & instead of &. I do not know why.

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

@kmessinger: I deleted meta keywords and cie. so this is why it is working now. But I'd like to put that information back, and in fact I'd prefer a different meta for each page, but if this is not possible with A-I-O plugin (or else) well simply a working meta would be fine. I wonder why characters like é, à, etc. were interpreted as chinese and made everything crash.

I replaced & by & in the amazon script so I got only 8 errors left, of those 7 are in amazon script and 1 elsewhere. That's much better (I had like 15 errors or more!). Thanks

baal666
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

But still... I wonder how to arrange those errors.

Line 31, Column 19: there is no attribute "charset".

<SCRIPT charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://ws.amazon.ca/widge

...

Line 31, Column 32: there is no attribute "type".

<SCRIPT charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://ws.amazon.ca/widge

...

Line 31, Column 207: element "SCRIPT" undefined.

…c01e30d9-7d48-4927-b5db-f8c485db1f2a"> </SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ws

... (etc.)

AND

Line 74, Column 476: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag.

…e un plaisir.<div class="adsense_ext">

jeremyc4
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

@iridiax

Thanks so much! That was my issue. I'll make sure and check on the basics first next time!

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