CSS page loading incorrectly... suggestions? 1

[flynbye]

Building a site using almost exclusively CSS and pages are loading fine from my system using both IE 6 and Netscape 7 but recently while I was updating the site my Sister uploaded the main page and it pushed all the tables, etc to the left of her screen. She continues to get this load error even after rebooting the system, reloading the pages, etc.

Sooo... I'm curious, any suggestions on what might be causing her problems and how to cure them?

Site is nearly done so I guess I can use this time to request ~ugh~ a site review although I suspect that I'll have to duck and run from all the suggested changes!

URL for the moment is:

http://www.softcom.net/users/efrei

The page giving her load errors is the "home" page following the index page. Thanks in advance for any suggestions as this one has me puzzled.
Chris
I always makes things much harder than they should be... that way later I can slap myself in the forhead after spending hours and hours on two lines of code and say to myself "DUH!"

 

[cian]

Hi,

Quick site review in IE6, 1024*

1. Do you need the index page? it doesnt really serve any purpose apart from telling the visitor what browser to use. Not sure if thats a great idea. Also you should have something to tell the user to click the picture to enter the site. also show a text link.

2. Real nice layout and use of colours! Very professional looking site. the main logo is a bit big, i'd consider reducing it in zise by 15-20%.

3. In the main content sections you really needs some padding/spacing around the text. Give it 20px or so. Same on all pages.

4. Nice effect on the nav links, but it gets a little annoying after a while. maybe speed up the effect or use softer colours??

5. Ezboard? Have you considered setting up your own forum? there are some excellent free bulletin boards on offer, WAY better than Ezboard! I use YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.1 from

http://www.yabbforum.com,

easy to set up and doesn't need a database. Professional looking to.

Thats all, great job!!

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[Sottini]

Well, nice site, but the problems start at the <link> tag with it's extra / and carry thru the numerous missing </tr> tags and then to cap <g> it, there are no </font> tags....There are a LOT of nesting errors on that page.....
Hope that's what you wanted to know!

 

[GUJUm0deL]

flynbye, Hiya...ok, I looked at your site, and in order for me to help, I had to save the CSS and the HTML file from online (hope its ok)...
Ok, this is what I found out...you have the table width attribute set to 710, I changed it to 650 and the page seems to fit in one window...all except the footer, but I think that has to do with the img...you're using 3 images there, two sp.gif and an graybartop.jpg...try to change the width of the image...in mah opinion, don't use the sp.gif, just use the graybartop.jpg and have that centered...
The site does look nice, nice visual effects with the CSS, but you have ALOT HTML errors, broken tags, misplaced tags, etc...
Lets deal with one thing at a time, retry the width of the tables, and the footer images, then we deal with the other errors, ok?? I have not failed; I have merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[flynbye]

Ouch... thanks guys... appreciate the assist... heading over to do some page review. I forget sometimes that IE can be WAY too forgiving and don't check with some of the tools that Netscape ~others?~ have for tag breaks etc.

Thanks again... I'll throw up a yell when I get all the fixes/updates complete and the page updated.

Hmmm... last but not least... no I really don't need the index page but it scratches an itch for me to put something somewhere in the site about original site design settings etc.

Huge thanks and back at'cha soon,
Chris I always makes things much harder than they should be... that way later I can slap myself in the forhead after spending hours and hours on two lines of code and say to myself &quot;DUH!&quot;

 

[flynbye]

Just wanted to post a fast &quot;Thank You&quot; again to all of you who reviewed the site and posted your comments. Trust me I heard ALL of them and did attempt to address them each and every one.

Fast once over of the changes made: Reviewed all the broken tags, img alt references, and missing div references, etc.

Reduced the main logo size by just a bit... not too much although may do more later although happy with it atm.

Haven't reviewed the forums idea yet... but will do before I commit too much further with ezboards, ~I was there already so was easy to do~

Adding spacing in the cells... this one was bothering me as well but hadn't gotten around to addressing it.

I may yet change the mouseoever color... undecided but it is under consideration

Used some of the HTML checkers referenced here on Tek-Tips! Have I mentioned how much I love this site?!?
I do need to pretty much go through the process I did this morning on my other pages but once again &quot;THANKS&quot; guys and hopefully I can help someone else out as much as you all have assisted me.

Hehe... anyway, nuf rambling back to programming! I always makes things much harder than they should be... that way later I can slap myself in the forhead after spending hours and hours on two lines of code and say to myself &quot;DUH!&quot;