Hi I noticed that in my site TotalPad.com user profile page shows correctly in IE7, but overlaps in Firefox3.0 Please see the images. Any advice how to correct this problem? Thanks in advance.
336 validation errors, divitus, classitus, and a general mish-mash of code that looks to be from twenty different sources just slapped together... I'm amazed it works anywhere at all. 88k of markup for 5k of content is usually an indication of 'doing it wrong' - 139k of javascript is automatically 'doing it wrong' - That you've got half a megabyte total for such a piss simple layout should be a sure indication the entire site needs to be thrown in the trash and started over from scratch.
My request was if you have any advise to resolve this very specific problem... BTW I am not a programmer. thanks
Your very specific problem though is an indication of a much more severe underlying situation - that being whoever DID program it needs to do the world a favor, back away from the keyboard and take up macrome weaving. With 336 validation errors you are going to be hard pressed to find a serious developer who would take the time to address the problem - and any who do you really don't want to work with. The general page layout is completely broken in IE6, it's a train wreck in Opera, Safari has plenty of niggling little issues, and it's just as broken in FF2 as it is in 3... It's also broken on large font machines because whoever built the page has never heard of the 'system metric' or how to plan for it. I'm not going to slap the rose coloured glasses on your head, pat you on the back while throwing silver bullet fixes at a disaster that really should be taken 'round back o' the woodshed with a 30-06 and put down like Old Yeller. Anyone who does should be ashamed. There are fundemental coding issues with the entire site that make diagnosing even the simplest of problems more trouble than it's worth... Do yourself a favor and hire a REAL programmer to rebuild the site from the ground up using minimalist semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, VALID markup, VALID CSS, etc, etc - as whatever it IS coded in is a cobbled together disaster that no amount of 'simple fixes' is going to correct. That's like putting a band-aid on a leaky dike with more cracks in it than a meeting of the local 104 plumbers union.
Unfortunately, unless you ARE a programmer, you cannot tell if the crusty dude you're hiring is a GOOD programmer. It's a lemon market-- most of the companies here in the Netherlands with their sh*tty code and ugly-ass websites are HAPPY with the steaming piles they paid for. What more can someone do than look at the offering in their (90% likely to be IE6 or 7 on WinXP or Vista) browser of choice and say, looks good, here's 600 euros ?