site in Internet Explorer is weird

  • One:
    My site looks fine in moxilla firefox, but internet explorer it is not centered in middle and the right sidebar is blank. The right sidebar widgets and stuff are only visible if you scroll down.

    two:
    I checked a link I saw in another forum question to test validation and my theme came up with 71 errors! So, I think the problem may be the theme. I tested another theme and it did not do this, both IE and firefox showed as centered in middle.

    three:
    I would like to change to a theme that is SEO friendly, can handle lots of news. Any recommendations?

    four:
    How do I make my site not visible to the public, with a note “down for maintenance”?

    I spent two months on this theme, and realized I was constantly fixing stuff and working on the site to point haven’t been able to do my own writing. So definitely need some help or advice. I’m not very knowledgeable in css, codes etc.
    (my site americanpendulum dot com)
    thanks

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  • cokeefe,

    I’ll take a stab at #4. Try the maintenance-mode plugin. https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

    Ok, keeping it small and dirty:

    1) google and read loads of html + css tutorials
    2) see #1
    3) see #1 and yes, use a “google sitemap.xml plugin” to help indexing
    4) there are some plugins in the wordpress repository that do that

    Quickly looking at your website I can only say: it breaks almost everywhere. Clean up your code and problems will go away!

    Some hints:

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.americanpendulum.com/wp-content/themes/swift-v5.0/images/favicon.ico">

    should be

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.americanpendulum.com/wp-content/themes/swift-v5.0/images/favicon.ico" />

    and remove these (partly wrong) tags:

    <style tyle="text/css">
</style>
 <script type="text/javascript">
</script>

    Actually, you’ve got a problem in your head.php, since I see that the closing head tag and the starting body tags are missing too.

    Add this:

    </head>
<body>

    Missing this could be one of those havoc-causing thingies…

    Hope that helps you along your way? ??

    Erm, forgot to tell you…

    add this:

    </head>
<body>

    to the END (read: at the bottom) of your “header.php” file. Should cut down on those validation errors massively.

    Thread Starter cokeefe

    (@cokeefe)

    Should I add <head> and <body>
    at top of head.php

    and

    </head> and </body> at the end?

    And where did you find these first two sets of codes:

    ref=http:…….

    and the:
    <style tyle=”text/css”>…..

    Thanks.

    When you say it breaks, what does that mean?

    Thread Starter cokeefe

    (@cokeefe)

    Should I add <head> and <body>
    at top of head.php

    and

    </head> and </body> at the end?

    And where did you find these first two sets of codes:

    ref=http:…….

    and the:
    <style tyle=”text/css”>…..

    Thanks.

    When you say it breaks, what does that mean?

    Thread Starter cokeefe

    (@cokeefe)

    I really don’t know where this code goes that you mention. Can you point to the specific files?

    thanks.

    Just a tip: you are asking what I’ve allready answered. Could you please read what I wrote first before you post this forum into the ground? Tnx.

    And: I allready pointed you to https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/5 where your question actually belongs. You’re having xhtml coding problems/issues and not real wordpress problems.

    Say, are you sure you’re up to coding websites allready? I would genlty push you towards some xhtml/css tutorials on the web, but you’ll have to do your own searching and learning how to code cross-browser websites.

    What you’re asking are the mere basics of web-coding. What, where and from whom did you learn web development the past 2 to 3 months? Maybe you should rather try to buy a good “how do I start coding wordpress websites” book? Some of us (no, not me but other web devs) actually make a living of selling those books because they are written clearly, easy and up-to-date. Just a friendly hint… 99% of us started that way… reading how it’s done.

    Thread Starter cokeefe

    (@cokeefe)

    No, I don’t know coding and when I originally started wordpress I was told it was not necessary.

    Actually, I’ve started creating my own site with an editor. I know some html, but I would like to keep the wordpress going until I have my complete site built.

    Everything was fine, this just started recently. I thought this was a forum for help???

    So, I am intelligent enough to find my own “coding books”.

    Btw, Your replies were really not that good as the both made no sense.

    You’re getting me wrong. I’m not stepping on your toes here, but only saying you should read what I’m writing. For the last time: XHTML/CSS probs like yours are better of here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/5 (= “Themes and Templates”) since you’ll have a better chance there to have your problems solved.

    It’s the same forum as you can see, only the “I’ve got XHTML/CSS questions” corner. ??

    P.S.: and the one who said

    when I originally started wordpress I was told it was not necessary.

    was bluntly wrong. To “use” wordpress, you don’t need to know any code… but to “theme” wordpress, you should know XHTML, CSS and even a good piece of PHP and a bit of MySQL.

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