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1. Jguy101
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Okay, so I posted something on my blog (running WP 2.0.1, address is http://joseph.the-byte-factory.com ), checked a few other blogs (mostly on Blogger), and visted a site or two (I think one was wholinkstome.com). Anyway, I come back and my site is look really weird. I'm using the K2 theme, and the only area with a whitebackground is the top, down just below the tabs; everything after that is gray (although I can still see the posts). Also, the sidebar is now below my posts...and nothing's wrong on the individual post and archive pages, and the two pages I have set up (one with the Contact Form add-on). It's just on the index.

   Now, it's like this in both Firefox 1.5.0.4 and Flock Beta 1, and the same in Maxthon (I don't remember what version) except for the white (it looks normal except for the sidebar being on the bottom) on WinXP Home. A couple friends have confirmed this on their computers, one running Firefox, the other Safari, and both on machines running Mac OS 10.4.

   Any idea what's causing this and how to fix it?

2. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjoseph.the-byte-factory.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&verbose=1

   You've got 40 HTML errors... I know you said you didn't do anything, but you may have been viewing a cached version before going to the other sites...

   Fixing those errors should solve your problems... if you fix them, and they don't, then come back here and let us know.

   And PLEASE stop copying and pasting into the editor... that's where a LOT of your errors are. If you have to write it in something else first, make sure you copy and paste it into NOTEPAD (not word, not wordpad, nothing but notepad) and then copy THAT and paste it into the editor. But never copy from anywhere else... it will always add erroneous tags that will bork your site.

3. Jguy101
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Well, by editing a recent post, I brought it down to 36...

   also, it looks like some of them are from some ad code, and may be intentional, since I'm not supposed to alter the code in any way.

4. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   you can get rid of some tags in ad code - like the font tags i see there...

   and all your img tags should end with .gif" />

   all your <br> tags should read <br />

   your flickr badge is what's causing a bunch of the errors too...

   error #1 needs clearing up too... you don't end a tag with a closing div tag... it looks like you're missing something there as well... and this error might just be the one messing up your layout.

   keep workin' on it, and change what you can...

5. Jguy101
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hmm...actually, I don't know if any of that is causing it, since most of the stuff there has been there for at least a day or two (and I have the cache turned off, since Firefox is known to hog RAM with the cache)...and it's in all the themes I've tried since then (Andreas03, Think Different, Contempt, and Blue Horizon).

6. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   if your div tags are out of place, or you have too few or too many, it will screw up your layout.

   that error #1 is going to be the most important one you need to fix... i guarantee that "all your themes you've tried" don't have that problem... and most of those you mention validate perfectly well... it's something YOU put in there that borked it...

   and through experience on these forums and in my own personal experience - fixing validation errors almost always fixes layout issues... 99% of the time. so the choice is yours, of course...

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