I have messed around with the html on my site,try to add a new link Now i have noticed that on my home page there is ? marks on it. And it dont look right anymore things have moved the url is http://www.xtremecrawler.com If someone can fix this problem for me ,I'am will to pay... I have x-panel were you can get to the site... cheers..
I don't see any question marks, but it does appear that the blue bloack with your search bar is raised higher across the top...
I took a look at your site in Internet Explorer, selected all to highlight the "?" mark and couldn't see it. I tryed it with Firefox also and no "?" anywhere neither. But, Firefox show that your code have 48 errors and 145 warnings, though. Papoloko
some problems that you can fix. remove the character spacing that is directly above the image "nav_left_top10.gif" that will sort out one of your problem. then where your categories image is, remove the "<br>" after the second part of the image, that will remove the spacing between your 2 images. One other problem is that you are using width percentages that doen't add up to 100%. left column is 8% middle column is 80% right column is 10% that could also solve some of your problems. drop me a mail if you need some help.
micmac07, it's possible you have set your browser to use a character encoding that is inconsistent with the page's encoding. Make sure you have selected View->Encoding->Auto Select.
Depends on what browser you are using, with IE, you click on View, move the cursor down to Encoding and then select Auto-Select. Your problem is most likely with whatever you edited the html with, its added what you might call 'invisible characters' which are causing problems with character encoding. They are mostly at the ends of lines of code. What I suggest you do is first put it through the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) to give you an idea of where the 'invisible' characters are and then remove any unnecessary blank spaces in your code on those lines, including any at the ends of lines of code. Good luck with your site
thanks Tam I got this massage when i use the validator Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 97, 206, 228, 403, 424, 431, 437, 443, 450, 455, 461, 468, 474, 480, 513, 570, 719, 753-754 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication. do's this mean this is were the problem's are? cheers..
That's pretty much due to using a Microsoft editor, and saving as windows-1252 (I think). Open the file and resave as ASCII, iso-8859-1 or Latin-1, or as utf-8. The latter is not safe if your web server's response header sets something else as the charset. ASCII and iso-8859-1 are always safe. The Windows-1252 charset uses character encoding in the range 128–159 inclusive, which is reserved for future control characters. For any other charset, these values are invalid. The usual suspects are the prime (') and double prime ("). cheers, gary
Yes m8 those are the lines where the problems are. Now remove any unnecessary blank spaces in your code, such as ... line 97... <td valign="top" align="left" width="8%"> Code (markup): there are 3 empty characters (showing as spaces) at the end of that line of code, delete those right up to the last '>' and the problem is gone from line 97. See what I mean? In other instances in your code, these empty spaces are often between '>' and '<' as opposed to at the ends of lines.
Here is the cleaned up code (I took out those empty spaces and many empty/improperly closed tags), but there are still a heck of a lot of errors for you to sort out. I had to zip it up and attach it because the file was too big to post the code. You can use the W3C validator to find those other problems (I think there's about 114 of them). For instance, I recommend you use CSS to give the zero margin attributes to the elements within your code and there are quite a few malformed elements as well. You can do it
And, you must change your editor defaults for character set. I verified you're using windows-1252. Your browser probably defaults to iso-8859-1, as does mine. The W3 validator tried utf-8, as it's a superset of all charsets (except windows proprietary). Your server header does not define the charset. If you just must use the proprietary character set (not at all recommended), add this to the head section of your page(s): <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> Code (markup): cheers, gary
I added in <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Code (markup): in the zipped up file above Gary, and since I took out the offending characters it is good to go now in that respect.
Until the file is saved again with the original character set. It is still up to the OP to reconfigure his editor or remember to save correctly—at least the first time. Gawd, I hate MS and their proprietary stuff. Reminds me of an old Massey-Ferguson tractor I had; not a common sized nut or bolt head anywhere on the beast. cheers, gary
Good point Gary. micmac07, what exactly are you using to edit your HTML?? Maybe we can offer some guidance on this misconfiguration.