Newb with an IE compatibility Problem

[Swashbuckler]

Hi all I really hope someone out there can help as I've been spending hours trying to figure the problem out.

Background
Last night I uploaded my site to my server and checked it out on firefox...looks and works fine. Than I decided to check it out on my Mac and to my surprise the content is completely blank. This was confirmed when using IE6...nothing.

Somewhere along the line I had forgotten to check the compatibility with IE in Dreamweaver :eek:

And now even if I view the html on my localhost (refreshing the history in IE) I get nothing.

The setup I'm using is Windows XP, running IIS, with MySQL running.

Theories

1) Tried validating the site and got a ton of errors...might it be because I'm using javascript, php, and xhtml on the page? Reason i ask is that it it says that my header is incorrect.

2) Problem with IIS, I know I should be using Apache but to my knowledge IIS works fine otherwise the site wouldn't show up on FF.

3) CSS, I've validated my CSS code and everthing should be ok (of course I'm aware that IE is extremely flakey when it comes to CSS)

The Code

Ok I've attached the code, I'm not expecting people to read through it all the way but my main concern is that there maybe a problem with the header or the <doctype!> (e.g. have I made it strict xhtml or transitional etc). Any help would be really appraciated.

[NogDog]

What do you see when you do a "view source" on the browser after trying to view the page? (I ask that because I see you have some PHP includes, which could be adding output that is confusing things.) Or, can you just provide a link to the page so we can view the source ourselves?

[NogDog]

PS: be sure to check your page with the validators:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Swashbuckler]

Hey Nogdog ( and anyone else) please see the following attachment. This is the source code from the web page, even though there appears to be nothing on screen the script looks intact.

You're right I've been using php, a little javascript for a scroller and Flash. I've been using validators but I think where I'm going wrong is maybe not using the right parsing? for the doctype.

Also and I'll try and look into it but all my tags apparently do not conform to lower/upper requirement [xhtml 1.0 transitional].

I'm trying to pull the site apart bit by bit and rebuild it on a new dynamic sheet with the hope that I'll identify the point where it will not display on IE6.

[NogDog]

The critical error that's stopping the display on IE is that you don't have a closing comment "-->" and the end of your style block. Of course you'll want to fix the other errors, too, but that's the one that's killing you right now.

[Swashbuckler]

The critical error that's stopping the display on IE is that you don't have a closing comment "-->" and the end of your style block. Of course you'll want to fix the other errors, too, but that's the one that's killing you right now.

Nogdog my brain is a little fried at the moment... could you elaborate?


I put the following

</STYLE>
-->


But the "-->" turns black as if I where inputting text onto the site.

Many Thanks

[NogDog]

-->
</STYLE>