Title: Modified Theme issue
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Modified Theme issue
* [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/)
* I’m sure this will be something easy for someone to fix. I’m feeling sick today
and can’t seem to figure this out :'(
* Here goes:
* This page looks like garbage:
* [http://www.vinyltragedy.com/index.php](http://www.vinyltragedy.com/index.php)
* This page looks great:
* [http://www.vinyltragedy.com/events](http://www.vinyltragedy.com/events)
* I’ve looked the code for 3 hours now and I can’t figure out why the index page
looks so horrible. I know it probably has something to do with CSS but for the
life of I just can’t figure out this annoyance.
* Here is a copy of the code for the main page:
* [http://www.vinyltragedy.com/code.txt](http://www.vinyltragedy.com/code.txt)
* Your help is well appreciated. I’m going to go to sleep soon…
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* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-301965)
* You can find the stylesheet here if you need to see it:
* [http://www.vinyltragedy.com/wp-content/themes/vinyl_tragedy/style.css](http://www.vinyltragedy.com/wp-content/themes/vinyl_tragedy/style.css)
* [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
* (@miklb)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-301974)
* Bear with us, with the new release, and the site overhaul, it might be a day
before everyone can settle down and assist with day to day issues.
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-301983)
* Allrighty. No problemo. I don’t need immediate help with this anyway. Just kinda
weird why the index page is all screwed up and the other pages aren’t, especially
since the index page is the place where all the data gets inserted.
* Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
* (@macmanx)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302024)
* I recommend that you start by fixing the validation errors in your XHTML and
CSS code.
* [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.vinyltragedy.com/index.php&ss=1&verbose=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.vinyltragedy.com/index.php&ss=1&verbose=1)
* [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http://www.vinyltragedy.com/wp-content/themes/vinyl_tragedy/style.css](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http://www.vinyltragedy.com/wp-content/themes/vinyl_tragedy/style.css)
* Bringing your code up to standards may fix the issues that you are seeing. Or,
at the very least, it will make your code significantly easier to troubleshoot.
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302204)
* even with some invalid xhtml issues (most of which are just images without the“
alt” tags) i shouldn’t be getting such drastic errors with having more than one
post on a page should i? i do agree about having valid code, but the invalid
code doesn’t seem to cause such a big problem. i could, and probably am, wrong
about this but seems a bit drastic don’t you think?
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302205)
* but i will look at getting those fixed first thing tomorrow and do thank you
for your help:)
* Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
* (@macmanx)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302206)
* You do have a few structurally related XHTML validation errors which could be
causing this. And, your invalid “-50px” value for the padding of #side in your
CSS is very suspicious.
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302286)
* thank you. i’ll look into it now. the only reason i mentioned that i didn’t think
some of that mattered as abc.com and google.com both have errors when running
them through the same tests. so i don’t think that those validators are all that
accurate at times.
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302296)
* Well I changed a bunch of code around and have waaaay less errors. But still
am getting that weirdness on the index.php page.
* Any other ideas? The errors that I am getting now I don’t think would be causing
this. Plus some of them seem a little ridiculous. A simple “
” tag wouldn’t
be causing all these problems would they?
* Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/encryptdesigns/)
* (@encryptdesigns)
* [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modified-theme-issue/#post-302766)
* I fixed it. I just ended up using tables instead of divs. I’m not a huge fan and what I was doing was somewhat complicated. At least with tables the
site is more more solid.
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