Site not working in IE, advice?

[Systreg]

I stuck a site on www.bonds.org.uk last night, it loads alright in Opera and FireFox browsers, but in IE, all that shows for the site is the header image, anyone know why

 

[davedevelopment]

h1 tag isn't closed!

 

[Systreg]

Cheers Dave, spot on, added closing tag and now opens in IE, best go and add that tag to the other pages.

Bloody menu is out in IE as well, what a shite browser it is, why does the page show right over to the left hand side when in Opera and FireFox it's centred? Any way to correct that and the menu?

 

[Edwin]

The W3 validator can often help pinpoint this kind of problem...
http://validator.w3.org/

 

[Systreg]

The W3 validator can often help pinpoint this kind of problem...
http://validator.w3.org/

Not much use to me that link Edwin, don't know what the stuff means on that poage, like:

Unable to Determine Parse Mode - What?

No DOCTYPE found! Checking with default HTML 4.01 Transitional Document Type. - What?

Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File. - What?

That site isn't at all helpful if you don't know what the hell it's telling you is wrong with your site, that's for tech people, of which I'm not

This for example, what is it on about?

Line 208, Column 7: end tag for "DIV" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this
</body>

✉
You forgot to close a tag, or
you used something inside this tag that was not allowed, and the validator is complaining that the tag should be closed before such content can be allowed.

The next message, "start tag was here" points to the particular instance of the tag in question); the positional indicator points to where the validator expected you to close the tag.

It's suggesting </body> isn't closed, when in fact it is on the site as </body>, so what's that about then, as there are a few like that listed as errors and they are definitely closed.

Anyway, I'm not too bothered about errors in html as long as site displays, cheers for the help.

 

[Admin]

Logo doesn't look great on my screen and missing an ALT tag (good for SEO).

To wrap the menu over 2 lines just add a "<BR />" after:

<li>
<a href="http://www.bonds.org.uk/corporate-bonds.htm" title="Corporate Bonds">Corporate Bonds</a></li>

Admin

 

[Systreg]

Logo doesn't look great on my screen and missing an ALT tag (good for SEO).

You dissing my logo art work? Took ages to make that on cooltext site again, kept coming out with black background each time I saved it, should have asked Joeyl who made one for my Perth site to knock me one up. Will sort the alt tag now as well.

To wrap the menu over 2 lines just add a "<BR />" after:

<li>
<a href="http://www.bonds.org.uk/corporate-bonds.htm" title="Corporate Bonds">Corporate Bonds</a></li>

Admin

Ahhh, sweet, will try that now, cheers.

 

[bensd]

Have a look at w3schools.com it's a great site to start learning html/css

 

[Systreg]

To wrap the menu over 2 lines just add a "<BR />" after.....

Added the <br /> but the menu doesn't change, any other ideas anyone?

Have a look at w3schools.com it's a great site to start learning html/css

Thanks Ben, I know what basic html tags do, but I don't actually write html myself, I take things like WordPress templates and use them as the html for some small sites, so the html is pretty much all there in the template, I then just add bits and pieces of other html to it and move stuff around, that does me for simplistic sites I make.

[edit]

Fixed the menu in IE, I added an extra blank <li><a href="" title=""></a></li><br /> and that brough the broken link down to the second line

 

[Admin]

Looks much better in IE now change your ALT tag to keywords not the domain name

 

[Systreg]

Looks much better in IE now change your ALT tag to keywords not the domain name

Ahh, thought you just put your site name in the alt, will throw the words from the meta tag in to it then.

Just been sent a PM saying the page in IE still isn't right, says the page is showing justified to the left, and the box with the stock market figures is showing out of line.

Hadn't noticed the stocks thoing out of line before, think it was ok earlier, hmmm, still no idea how to shiwt the page to the centre of the screen like it is on Operan and FireFox, why does stuff look crap in IE, why do people still use that bloody browser, apart from the fact Microsoft have it on the machines they sell.

[edit]

Thanks also to Tricky1 for the help via PM and for offering to and making me a better header image, top man

 

[Systreg]

Found out how to align the page centre, which at the same time fixed the stock market box from moving outside of it's table.

I simply replaced the opening <html> tag with:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">

I has seen that html code before on site templates and always deleted it as I had no idea what it did, now I do :lol: