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07-12-2005, 01:31 PM
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CSS and XHTML
Ok, I reworked the page code for http://www.quoteforinsurance.com/aaa.html and figured I would give css and xhtml a try. I have validated both the CSS code and XHTML code with W3C.org, but for some reason the page is coming up blank. Any suggestions on what could be wrong??? |
07-12-2005, 02:04 PM
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For starters, it only comes up blank on MSIE. It's fine on Firefox...
Not what you wanted to hear - I guess - but it's a start  |
07-12-2005, 03:07 PM
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I don't know either. Is there much of a benefit in formating in XHTML over HTML 4.0?
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07-12-2005, 11:23 PM
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First, your <html> tag should be like this
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us">
when you are using XHTML, but that isn't your problem.
Your problem is your javascript, and how you are closing the code (it validates, but it doesn't always help). Change it from
<script language="javascript" src="/scripts.js" type="text/javascript" />
to
<script src="/scripts.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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07-12-2005, 11:30 PM
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hmilesjr - Not a lot, usually you have BETTER cross-browser compatibility.
To be honest, I haven't got a clue why the page shows as blank. Luckily Mano70 is the expert here
added: Mano, is that a known 'bug' or is that a hunch??
Last edited by Wit : 07-12-2005 at 11:33 PM.
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07-12-2005, 11:43 PM
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Don't know if it's a known bug, but this is how you should write your code when you includes javascript. I have to add I didn't see the problem at once myself since the page validated so I just copied the source code into Dreamweaver and found that the color highlighting wasn't showing correct colors for the body part. Then it was easy..
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07-13-2005, 05:14 AM
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Thank you both for all your help. It is fixed now.
I would have to update my pages manually (about 250 pages), do the search engines frown upon having some pages xhtml and some html when it comes to SERP placement? It will take me about 2 weeks to change everything over.
Last edited by hmilesjr : 07-13-2005 at 05:33 AM.
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07-13-2005, 05:20 AM
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Nope, they can't be bothered (nowadays). If your ranking was stable before, then it won't change much. However, jumbling up the content of your pages (as you often do if you change design, lay-out and/or markup language) CAN confuse some of the search engines. It can take some time for the rankings to recover (as in: weeks) but you'll probably come out stronger
I'd recommend changing only a couple of pages at the time, and monitoring their results... |
07-13-2005, 05:35 AM
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Thanks, I will change my main pages (about 10) and see how it goes. The good thing is Google has been caching my updates usually within 24 hours.
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