Website Problems...

parses ok to ns7, but IE draws a 'blank'

[thomask]

I started in late july building a new 'fansite' and it was fine, up until recently....

I have been slowly adding items to the site, all based on php/html using a MySQL database.

I maintain 2 versions.

1) Online
2) Beta

Beta is kept locally, and I recently discovered that IE has developed a problem with the 'code'. I thought it was MY computer, MY IE, but alas, at least 2 others online have tested and came up with the same results.

I have not changed anything so much as to cause this, at least in my mind. I also can not figure what it might be.

Netscape 7 - Old site & new mod's are fine
IE 6 - Old site fine, new mod's blank screen, tho view source works and gives proper source.
lynx (for linux) - Old site fine, new mod's draw a blank screen, and view source works fine.. with code given.

Can someone guide me to an answer for this?

ThomasK

[bcolflesh]

First step:

[validator.w3.org...]

[thomask]

Much thanks...

wow, 127 errors?

I managed to fix the 1 or 2 that were affecting my page loading proper in IE or lynx..

Thanks again.. nice tool that. ;)

ThomasK

[tedster]

nice tool that.

Yes, it is a fantastic free service. I sometimes think that we should use the blinking marquee tag and have the W3C validator address flash on the top of every page in this forum. So many "browser problems" just evaporate when mark-up is valid.

[thomask]

You'll never guess why it wasnt showing up in IE or Lynx... I was missing a </style> tag...

now to fix a bunch of missing </a>'s and mis-used <center>'s?

ThomasK

[thomask]

hm, question?

Is it 'normal' to have a bunch of 'entity' errors or warnings with the w3c validator when dealing with google and linkshare links?

ThomasK

[bcolflesh]

Change & to &amp;

[thomask]

I assume this wont affect 'tracking'?

thanks alot.. starting to do that now with my menu/navigation bar code...

ThomasK

[thomask]

This Page Tentatively Validates As HTML 4.01 Transitional (Tentatively Valid)!

WOOHOO! .. next step, validate it as 'strict' .. I'll leave that for another day.. heh..

Thanks muchly...
ThomasK

[encyclo]

Tentatively Valid

Congratulations, thomask! Did the validator say why the page is only tentatively valid? Most probably, you're not declaring the charset. If that is the case, then you can add the following to the

head

section of the page (below the

title

is ideal):

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

If the language of your document is not western European, then you will need to substitute the correct encoding to replace ISO-8859-1.

That should get you truly, not tentatively, validated!

[thomask]

Yes, I figured that out about 45 minutes after my post, just kept looking at it, eventually found links that would take me to the proper information.. I kept thinking I would have to edit my apache script... (that wouldnt do as the production server I dont have that kind of access to.. heh...)

Anyways...

This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Note:
You can also view verbose results by setting the corresponding option on the Extended Interface.

The document located at <http://*********/> was checked and found to be valid HTML 4.01 Transitional. This means that the resource in question identified itself as "HTML 4.01 Transitional" and that we successfully performed a formal validation using an SGML or XML Parser (depending on the markup

<snip...>

WEEEEEE

Just gotta dot some i's and cross some t's and I can update it on the production server..

Thomask