ok , time for my 1st question :)

[GabeS]

I recently downloaded the trial version WPG. When I ran the page critic it notified me that I have text the same color as my background. this perplexes me since this is a false analasys. I've been searching everywhere for this error but for the life of me I can't find any text that fits that description. Are there any tools on the web that looks for these errors and identifies their location that I can download? My page was designed with a custom FP theme btw.

TIA
Gabriel

[traffik daddy]

Hi Gabes,

Are you looking for hidden text in design view rather than looking through the HTML?

Its a long shot, but I use Dreamweaver which I notice it sometimes inserts 2 font commands for one sentence if your not careful. See the following example:

<FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Text</FONT></FONT>

This has happened to me in the past so many times and I have to carefully read through my HTML to check for errors. You may not find the solution in design view, but by reading through the code.

The text will read the nearest <FONT> command to it, in this case the text would appear red even though it is also in between the white <FONT> command too. It could be that WPG is reading this as an error if your background color is set to white.

This brings me to a question. Would Search Engines pick up on this mistake hence getting penalised for it?

If anyone knows, please post :)

Terry

[OddDog]

yes google penalises this hidden text.

[lty83]

Is WPG good, i heard it was terrible to use thats why I have never checked it out, i'm afraid of it causing some long term or even short term damages, any thoughts on this?

Thanks! :)

[John_Caius]

[google.com...]

Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our terms of service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

[lty83]

yea i'm gonna steer clear of wpg

[GabeS]

Hi,

Thankyou for the replies. The problem was indeed in the shared pages. I was getting 2 different font color readings which I deleted the ><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"> and it seems to be ok now.

Best
Gabriel

[joebiff]

If you are using Dreamweaver and need to elimiante double font tags, simply run the Clean HTML Code from the commands menu, this should clean it up