shirestudios
07-02-2008, 06:45 AM
Here is a wesite:
http://www.herbadec.com/homepage.html
The site has 4 main boxes (frames?) and a background.
Loading in Firefox and Safari, the site loads properly...boxes are displayed in their correct positions.
However, when the site loads in Internet Explorer 6 or 7, the boxes get messed up and the background image does not load at all.
Can anyone please give me suggestions as to what the problem could be?
View the source of the site from firefox or something. It is mostly html code...but if you need the css here you can download them:
http://www.herbadec.com/mystylesheet.css and,
http://www.herbadec.com/stylesheetcolumns.css
Thanks!
-ShireStudios
WebJoel
07-02-2008, 08:09 AM
A missing full & valid !doctype would start to set things right here, and clean up some validational warnings. There are quite a few "<center>" with no matching-closure "</center>" in this generation 4.0 site. This "<center>" tag (and "<font>") are deprecated and could be switched to a more modern selector/declaration format (if this text is in a "<td>" for instance, use the TABLE's id to target the TDs and have "text-align:center;" for it, and you have exactly the same thing, semantic, shorter, correct). :) You would only need to state this *once* in the CSS, instead of all those "<center>" and (missing)"</center>" tags... Shorter HTML code = faster load-times (and what with that massive background-image, you WANT to do more to get this load-time shortened)..
I do note a err on the META tag:<META NAME="keywords" content="phytopharmacy,consultation,phytopharmacological,herbal,research,natural products,herb,herbs,consultancy,nutraceutical,nutraceuticals,novel foods,traditional,medicinal,plant,plants,cosmeceutical,botanical herbal research,herbal products,consultancy,consultancy company,herbals,herbal,data searches,discovery,cosmeceutical,ethnobotany,ethnobiology,ethnobotanical,survey,screening,ethnopharm acology;historical ethnopharmacology,ethnopharmacological,agricultural,agriculture, American Indians, analgesic, ancient herbal texts,ancient,medieval,medical,tradition,medieval medical tradition,texts,antiaging,anti-Alzheimer,antibacterial,anticancer,cancer,antidepressant,antimalarial,antioxidant,chemoprevention,si de effects,memory,leads,chemical compounds,Arabic medicine, Hebrew texts,Latin texts,Aztec,European,experience,biological control,bioprospecting, bioprospecting of historical herbal texts,Buenz,collective experience,continuous use,cumulative,database,desert,Negev,Dioscorides,drug discovery,discovery,drug development,early modern,economic botany,efficacy,evaluation,focusing the research,folk medicine; functional foods,Galen, herbal data search,herbalism,heuristic, historical uses,human patients, Ibn Sina,Maimonides,identification of product leads, industry,innovative,Krina Doekes,lead structure,natural product marketing, medicinal plants Mediterranean,Middle Ages,Middle East,nutraceutical,nutricosmetic,nutrition, pharmaceutical industry,pharmacology,Phytopharmacognosy,plant-derived,pre-Conquistador, predict the efficacy,pre-laboratory screening, product leads,Prospecting for Drugs",Riddle,starting point,startup companies,research strategy,tested in humans,Therapeutic,time-efficient,time-tested,tradition,traditional,trial and error,historical researches> Everything AFTER the 'closing double-quote' is invalid.
Now, META-data is largely not used by SEARCH-bots these days (Google, being the notable, disregards this due to rampant abuses in the past).
Some Search Engines DO still read META tags, but provisionally: any single 'keyword' should not be repeated more than 3, maybe four times (example, "herbal remedy, herbal suppliment, herbal solution, all natural herbal" etc. is considered "SPAMMING" and some SEARCH 'bots either stop reading your page at this point, or 'blacklist' it as superfluous and move on~.
You should not want more than 50-60 words, tops, in your keywords of META. Again, too much information here is 'cramming' (akin to "spamming") and META is not 'content', it is 'advertising' that SEARCH 'bots tend to ignore/disregard/ or in extreme cases, penalize against.
You DO want a powerful "<title></title>" content, though. And never start "Welcome to my~..." or "This is my~..." as these words are too common, and are wasting a perfectly good opportunity to 'gain rank points'.
You want the 'name of the company' or whatever the main subject is, to be your FIRST word in "<title></title>". You only need 5 or 6 words here... do not overdo it again, as this can be perceived as 'abuse' and you'll be penalized in SEO for it.
One CAN get high rank on Google, etc., just by using good semantic markup with legitimate and correct use of tags, links, title="describe this anchor" on anchors, alt="describe this image" on images, and of course, good content.
P.S. -Noted: a "cross-posting". Only post new threads in one forum. This keeps your responces in the same thread. If you post in an incorrect forum (an "HTML" question posted in the "javascript" forum), just leave it. A Mod. or Admin. will adjust it to the correct venue shortly and leave a 'redirect' link in it's place. :)