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Some problems with site

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dolphindolphin

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Original poster
May 29, 2008
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New York
Hi all,

I am knee deep in my first web development project and I have a few questions.

First off here is my website: www.hamletfoil.co.cc
It isn't complete in terms of text, but most of the code is in place.
The first problem I'm getting is that when I visit my site in safari for windows, I get white rectangular boxes on various parts of the page. I asked a friend to visit the site on his desktop using mozilla 3 and he got different white boxes. What's going on here?

Secondly, I might be an idiot, but on the top of www.hamletfoil.co.cc/index-1.html is an "s" and a white box spanning the entire page. I cannot find this in my code. What happened?

Thirdly, the "contact the webmaster" on the bottom of www.hamletfoil.co.cc/index-3.html is messed up, however, it utilizes the same code as the other pages. Why is this happening?

Here are some screenshots with the boxes:

attachment.php


attachment.php

Please give me any advice/criticism/questions/comments that come to mind.

Thanks guys

EDIT: Fixed the "s" problem.
 
Your code is not very standards compliant, and that will cause problems in browsers like Safari.

The majority of your problems can be solved by declaring a doctype. Try
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
(That needs to go on a line preceding the <html> start tag)

After that I recommend going to http://validator.w3.org/ to validate your code, and fixing the errors it lists.

I was able to solve the "white box" issues by doing this.
 
Darth.Titan said:
Your code is not very standards compliant, and that will cause problems in browsers like Safari.

The majority of your problems can be solved by declaring a doctype. Try
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
(That needs to go on a line preceding the <html> start tag)

After that I recommend going to http://validator.w3.org/ to validate your code, and fixing the errors it lists.

I was able to solve the "white box" issues by doing this.
Click to expand...

Thank you for this piece of info.
 
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