Did you try removing the adsense code?
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mstess
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Thanks, Moshu.
I removed the Adsense Search code and that didn’t seem to help. Just went through and tried to replace stylesheet, index and others, but that didn’t do anything either. I will now try to remove the other Adsense stuff, although that didn’t cause a problem before.
I am a real noob and can’t think of what else to do or where else to look. I know that isn’t saying much.
At this point a link to the offending colors (i.e. your site) would help us track down the issue.
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mstess
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Here is the link:
http://www.portlandtoportland.com
Just noticed that a comment showed up in white.
I am obviously missing something really obvious somewhere.
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.
Take a look at the following:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portlandtoportland.com
All sorts of errors, not the least of which is your document actually starts with a </ul> tag! I could provide a quick CSS fix to the white text issue, but that’s not going to solve the real problems here (and it’ll probably resolve itself once the validation stuff is cleared up).
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mstess
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Be kind because I am a newbie. So, does this validator refer to a certain file? Is there some way or a program that will make the line numbers? Or do I need to count down each line?
In the meantime, I will go search for some validation tips to see if I can figure this out.
Thanks for your help. From my slight knowledge of html, I do know that at the start of anything isn’t good.
Return to the link I provide above and at the top you’ll see a Revalidate With Options section. Check ‘Show Source’ and click Revalidate. Right after the error list you’ll see the source of the page as the validator sees it. Also, the error #’s will link to the lines it references.
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mstess
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checking on that now. THanks.
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mstess
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OK. I have spent hours lowering the number of invalids down to 21, but I am really stuck. When is it easier to just start over from scratch? Will I lose my archives if I do this?
I am thinking that part of my problem is because I was spellchecking outside of the page writer. Cut and paste from Word. Seems it doesn’t like Times New Roman. I have no clue how to fix that or whatever else is there.
I still have white font.
Thanks for your help and recommendations. I am not really tech savvy and this is a very high learning curve for me.
Cut and paste from Word.
Never do that! Especially not if you have that ugly wysiwyg thing enabled…
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mstess
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Thanks
I bet that is my problem. – or one of them.
So, what is the best way to post if not through that SYSISYG thing, which I assume is what shows up when I click on Write Post?
And where do I even go to edit those posts. I don’t see that file anywhere. I couldn’t find where line 440 is after doing that validation thing.
Wysiwyg (=what you see is what you get) editor, also known as RTE (rich text editor), a.k.a TinyMCE… is the public enemy #1 🙂
To disable it:
admin > Options > Writing: Formattin – Users should use the visual rich editor by default – UNCHECK
admin > Users > Your profile: bottom left corner > UNCHECK
then you’ll see the code in your posts.
