thebindlestick

Alright this post is resolved thru much searching, thinking, re-evaluations etc. Since this site is all about info and helping others, I thought I’d come back and give the solution I found: simply I am a sloppy programmer.

I have been writing html/javascript/php/asp and xml for many years but it has always been very forgiving, i.e. you can put your tags out of nested order like ‘<p></p? and html could care less. Well since IE7 is XML compliant or whatever the term is, it gets real picky all of a sudden.

If your wordpress page is all wonky, the columns tossed all over the page randomly and not doing what you want it to do, I bet money you just need to clean up your code.

Go here: http://validator.w3.org/

and enter your root url, like http://www.yoursite/folder where folder is where your website files are. I mention that because we share a directory for testing sites and if I check all the websites I;d be there all day.

Look through the errors, they don’t make sense do they? Fortunetly they explain there pretty well here: http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html

Most of my errors were div and ul / li tags nested in the wrong order… AFAIK they need to be DIV on the outside, and then ul and li respectively inside the DIV tags, and remember to close your div tags. What I did was go throiugh my entire page and aling all the code to the left, no indentations, then went and tabbed every non-DIV tag over two spaces, so all I had down the left was div tags, then counted them off to make sure I had all matching pairs, and I found an extra one, which cleared up several errors. Many times, I found, one code typo can throw many different errors, and one character can toss a page all over the place.

Have fun, IE sucks. Rock on macWorld.

That makes no sense because I have IE 6 on my Dell and it doesn’t work… now I have 5 people telling me it doesn;t work on their end, how weird. It is a custom template, what could cause that?

I can go to W3 but that link don’t work, it is a 404, i wonder if it is because you initiated it as a script?

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crawlmag.com%2Fwordpress%2F%3Fpage_id%3D38&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1

When I think about Gwen Stefani and Madonna in a video it isn’t that one 😛

Can anyone else click on my sidebar links and exit that page? I have tried in Firefox and Safari on this [$7000] Mac, and on a Dell Laptop in IE [worthless] and I cannot click those links… am I IP blocked from a href tags? 🙂

Also that W3 link still doesn’t work for me – went to the site, holy hell that is a terrible site design for the people who run the internet

Got it figured out.

Now I’m having DIV tag issues 🙂

lovely day.

Okay, this does not work. If I create a copy of my page or index file (renaming it) and use it as a Page Template, it cannot load the header file, and assuming it would error out at any other include when it got to them. Here is what I need to do, is there a better way to do it?

Look here: http://www.crawlmag.com/wordpress

The green links on the left need to go to Pages, i.e. “contact us” – “customer service” – “subscribe” and other static content pages. Obviously to subscribe you need to fill in a form, same with a contact form, so I need to basically create a page that looks like the rest of my Theme, but allows me to run code inside the body. You cannot do that in Pages w/o installing plugins. So, what is the best way to create pages that look just like my main Theme pages, what files do I need to copy/rename?

and why are my page.php and index.php files inside my Theme exactly the same code?

Rudolf, here is what I did:

opened DarkRitual/page.php and resaved it as custserv.php in the same folder. This is going to be my customer service page with a contact us form. I added:

<?php
/*
Template Name: CustSevTemplate
*/
?>

to the top of the file and resaved it to the DarkRitual folder. I then opened up my manage-> pages -> customer service page and changed the theme to CustServTemplate, saved it and went back to my index. When i click that page, I get the error where it cannot load the header. What am i doing wrong?