layout problems

[zupi]

hi, I'm having problems in my layout but I can't find any solution
please check out at:

1. http://zupi.com.br/radar/browse.php?cat=8
in this page problem look like descriptio of the url is big and don't go to another line. not sure why?

2. in this case the beggining is ok, but continue with a problem that page oes bigger to the right:
http://zupi.com.br/radar/browse.php?cat=18

thanks in advanced for helping me with this.
regards

[mpdaddy]

I cannot pinpoint the exact spot it gets messed up but you have 53 <table> opening tags but only have 43 </table> tags.

[Bruceper]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0 will show you your issues. You have made a a lot of html coding errors which need to be fixed up so the site can display properly.

[mpdaddy]

Looking deeper into the source I see a possible problem 2 lines above

http://zupi.com.br/radar/detail.php?linkid=183"

You have

               </table>
                </td>
                <td><table

You close out the table and start a new column when you should be starting a new row.

[zupi]

hi, this is very strange, cause if you go to:
http://zupi.com.br/radar/browse.php?cat=6 - the page is ok with out any errors

but if you go to:
http://zupi.com.br/radar/browse.php?cat=12 - the page looks odd - crazy what is going on. I have no clue.

attached you can see the browse.html and row.html page in a zip file
please if some one can tell me what exactly is the error I'll appreciate

thanks

[Bruceper]

No errors? No visable ones perhaps, but W3 is still reporting 40 errors on the page. Some of the don't matter, but there are still mismatched <table>, <td> and <tr> tags.

browse.php will be the same no matter what category you look at. However if you made mistakes in rows.php as well then the errors would be compounded for every row in each category.

[zupi]

I'm not sure what kind of error is happening, but all tags in row are appearing well, but they are all in a wrong place, a few pages are diagonal, others are ok, and others the page appear outiside in the right of the table. really strange.
thanks,
allan

[Bruceper]

It's the way you have the tags nested and left other tags open, there is really nothing strange about it.

Since rows.html repeats itself for each row, the more rows you have the more times the code will display. If you have an open, unlclosed or improperly nested tag then it will get compounded for each and every row that you have.

[zupi]

hi, I can't find what rows are repeating it self, I'll appreciate if you could help me with that.

thanks in advanced
allan

[Bruceper]

For a price yes, otherwise it's too difficult to determine what another programmer messed up and what has to be fixed.

You'd be looking at a starting price of $50 from me which would give you 2-3 hours of time to fix any issues and should be enough time to get it done. Note that I accept credit cards only, no paypal.

If you're interested PM me and I will send you a link for payment. Then I would need your FTP username and password and the IndexU username and password along with the URL (I know it's above, but it won't be in a PM).

[inspireme]

your div tags are messed up. its hte same on each category, the problem is less apparent when you have only 1 link, or sponsored link. You have a incorrectly balanced div tags in the rows.html file.

[zupi]

hey inspireme, thanks, but I can't see the errors,
if u could help me it will be great, can u give me more details? cause I still can find it.

regards,
allan

[Bruceper]

Even though I and other have explained the issue (not pinpointed it) you are still asking for help for the same errors.

Go to http://www.w3.org and use the HTML Validator and you will see all the errors on the page.

Here's how you can fix the issues.

Visit your website (the index), now save it as an HTML file. Then go to w3.org and load that HTML file and it will tell you where the errors are (it will be the same as if you told it to visit your website). It says there are 53 errors.

Now read the error on line one.

Line 46, Column 211: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

Simple fix, instead of ending your img tag on lline 46 with > you need to use />

Now reload that page at w3.org. It will show you 52 errors! One down.

Next one is Line 51, Column 112: required attribute "alt" not specified.

Origional code is …opo_left.gif" width="9" height="55" /></td>
Change to …opo_left.gif" width="9" height="55" alt="" /></td>

Now reload again, 51 errors!

Keep doing that for each end every one.

While you're changing the errors on your local copy, make the same changes in the admin panel of your IndexU. Since at the moment you're doing the index page the errors youwill be fixing are mostly in header.html, index.html, footer.html. And perhaps in some blocks too, I didn't look. But the majority will be the header and footer.

Now remember that header and footer are used throughout the entire site! So when you go to a category, you'll already have fixed a bunch of errors! Then you'll need to worry mainly about browse.html and rows.html

As I said before, w3.org will show you your errors, it's up to you to correct them. I don't think anyone is going to take a few hours out of their day to fix the issues for you for nothing.

I'm honestly not trying to be an ass, but if this takes two hours to fix then it's two hours (or even if it's 30 minutes) of someone's time that gets burned up and can't be used for other purposes like actually doing something to their own site to help them make money. Sure if it was a simple answer then you may have gotten it out of me or someone else. But it's not simple as there are dozens of issues here. Maybe not all of them important (like alt tags) but they should still be fixed.

I also offered to fix it for a cost, you declined that by offering me less than my time is worth. You must honestly believe me when I say it's hard to fix someone else's coding mistakes, which is why I quoted the price I did. Perhaps if you make an offer in the forum here (or in this thread) of what you would pay for someone to fix it then you might get some response.

Otherwise the only other thing I can do is to close this thread, it's been open for 10 days and no one has offered to fix it gratis.

Also I never noticed before, this post doesn't belong in tutorials, thread moved.

[esm]

hey inspireme, thanks, but I can't see the errors,
if u could help me it will be great, can u give me more details? cause I still can find it.

regards,
allan

If you still don't understand after all these guys have tried to help, you have three options, in my opinion:

1. Learn HTML - Sign up for a HTML class (and a programming class). Then come back and correct your errors.
2. Hire someone to customize your site for you. A couple hundred hours at USD $ 25 per hour should get you started
3. Ask for a refund - At this point you do not appear to have the skills to do what you are trying to do.

If you don't have the abilitiy to learn #1 and you don't have $10-20,000 lying around that you can blow on a website, option #3, would be your best bet.



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