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memanni · 2008-01-13 15:58:14

Please view webpage at www.hebrewheritage.com - Prophetic Code. a blank page will down load, but there is source code, to view if you right click and hit view source. I have been working on this since 2006. in my browser it looks great but when I try to view it in IE its a blank page. Where did I miss it?

Thanks

Last edited by memanni (2008-01-13 15:59:41)

laurie_m · 2008-01-13 16:19:45

G'day memanni.

It's blank in IE but not in FF.

FF tels me you have 100 code errors and 380 code warnings.

You need to get FF and install html tidy.

The first few errors look to me to be enough the mess things up.

While arguing on this forum over the importance of valid code is stupid, when problems like this occurr the first place to look is the code errors and warnings in FF tidy.

I suspect your problem will come right if you get the first half a dozen corrected. The errors are the main thing. You can probably live with the warnings.

Mind you, if it was my code, I'd want it right.

Regards,
Laurie.

ColoEagle · 2008-01-13 16:32:01

In addition to what Laurie mentioned, you have some stuff wrong/missing in the very start of the page.

You have this at the beginning of the on page style:

Code: css

 <style type="text/css"media="all" />



 body link="#8b713c"{

        background: #a18753 url(../images/pageBackground.gif) repeat-x;

        font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

}

put a space between text/css" and media

Remove --- link="#8b713c"

Add the style closing tag </style> at the end of the css.

Insert the greater than symbol on your opening body tag.

perfectrubbermulch · 2008-01-13 18:05:17

Not sound stupid but what is FF and IE? I told you this stuff was Greek to me. Just call me Ms. Bumbling!

laurie_m · 2008-01-13 18:14:29

IE: Internet Explorer. FF: FireFox

Should be able to find some info if you do a search of this site or on Google. Let's know if you can't.

Regards,
Laurie.

Roxane · 2008-01-14 14:11:52

memanni wrote:
Where did I miss it?

You are missing the closing shark-fin bracket on the body tag.

Your code is...

Code: html

<body

when it should be

Code: html

<body>

Ryan_steyn · 2008-01-16 02:14:45

Shark fin Brackets? I like that big_smile

Yeah, as with valid code being pushed i would like to throw this snippet out there again "CSS is best used EXTERNALLY"

Not only will that clean up your code but it will also help you organize you css better, at the moment i dont even have to go into the source, i can see all your css at the top of the page. Somewhat amusing when one reads "prophetic code" in the toolbar and sees a mass of code (css) on page but i doubt that was the effect you were hoping for. Personally, i would copy and paste your information into notepad, save and try again from scratch... a new approach perhaps.

EDIT: Oh, and your links dont work.

Last edited by Ryan_steyn (2008-01-16 02:16:20)

memanni · 2008-02-03 10:20:20

Thanks for all the comments, and keep them coming. I took the start from scratch advice, and used html tidy for clean-up, I still have issues with CSS, have read alot and visited all the advised help sites. I think I just need a few more minutes to stew in it. I still have alot of material to produce pages for so I am looking into a db catalog system. I will also need a proper sitemap.

I do have one question. I did a Google discovery crawl, the Google bot found 259 pages either in an old sitemap or by follwing links from other pages during its discovery crawl. Of course the pages produced 404 errors, since I have not uploaded those pages on the current site. So my question is if I use the exact same url will there be a marriage between the old page location and the new page upload? A URL string would read exactly like this: http://www.hebrewheritage.com/Prophetic … /seabeast/
THANKS All

matte · 2008-02-03 16:17:05

If the URLs are the same it will match up.
Try not to have links pointing to dead pages though - not good for SE or human visitors.
If you are looking at a DB system then this will mean you will have different URLs again as the DB output will produce different ones

Here is a site to help with the site map/s http://www.sitemapdoc.com/Default.aspx it helps with site maps in html and xml for google and also identifies dead links

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#1 2008-01-13 15:58:14

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#2 2008-01-13 16:19:45

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#3 2008-01-13 16:32:01

Re: Blank Page

Code: css

#4 2008-01-13 18:05:17

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#5 2008-01-13 18:14:29

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#6 2008-01-14 14:11:52

Re: Blank Page

memanni wrote:

Code: html

Code: html

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#8 2008-02-03 10:20:20

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