Amateur in site making….Need a lot of help… Well, at least a bit

  • Was advised to move here from https://www.wordpress.com. So I do…

    This is really scary. My site https://www.juliapetrova.com was hacked, and I decided to recreate it BY MYSELF.
    Actually, I must say more. This site was started 3 month ago and never really run properly. 3 different companies were working on it. Some say, it’s a curse. Should I believe it? I better say ‘No’ and do the things my way.
    But I need some support. The previous version of the site was made in WordPress, so I am a little bit familiar with it and, naturally enough, use the same system again. I’ve learned the basics of the gallery and how to paste the materials in different pages. But there are hundreds of little issues. For example, I cannot find information on how to take away repreating of the heading name in the body of a page. I am not sure how to make my site work the same way in all browsers (IE cannot see half of the things I published). For some reason after its initiating the gallery preveals on all other headings and ‘eats away’ the banners + it doesn’t let to switch for another column (I must only go to the home page and from there further exploration of the site is possible).
    I know that there are too many questions in an unprofessional head… But if someone has time and wish to help, I will really be thankful. And, as the site (when its running) has wide popularity, I will gladly post there credits to my helper.
    Otherwise with no help… see the title page (cute picture attachment) at https://www.juliapetrova.com.
    Regards, Julia Petrova

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  • might want to mention that the gallery is kinda NSFW…. (front page is fine)

    A good place to start looking is here

    Yiou’ve got some validation issues….some little things can be headaches…like this bit here

    <div id="header-info"> 

<a href="https://www.juliapetrova.com/"><img src="./wp-content/themes/theme/images/logo.png"></a>

    You didn’t close the img tag in your theme….which can cause image repeats, etc. (the code will most likely look a bit different in your theme…But this is for reference. You are missing the closing slash like so, for your image

    <div id="header-info"> 

<a href="https://www.juliapetrova.com/"><img src="./wp-content/themes/theme/images/logo.png" /></a>

    That happens again in the page…don’t forget to add the closing slash to your images…

    also, down in your footer you are missing some important stuff. The last 2 lines need to be:

    </body>
</html>

    Thread Starter yulitchka

    (@yulitchka)

    GREAT, GREAT thank you!!!!

    It’s only appropriate to self-close the image tag if you want to adhere to the XHTML specification, for regular HTML a non-self-closing image tag is perfectly valid.

    Further more, if you’re going to aim to write for XHTML standard, then you also need an alt tag on that image to validate.

    I’d imagine the problem was related to the missing closing tags for the body/html.

    Thanks for clarifying that @t3los_

    When I was validating after a repeating image issue…I took care of all the errors at once, so I wasn’t sure which edit fixed the issue

    As far as i know, the requirement is src, alt and self closing, anything else is optional, such as title.. etc..

    Thread Starter yulitchka

    (@yulitchka)

    Solved the problem with the banner. Just took away border=”0″ from the source, and there are no fails any more. Things are improving!

    Thread Starter yulitchka

    (@yulitchka)

    One more question, if you don’t mind…
    My site looks very different in FF and IE. In Internet Explorer half of the adjustments I made to the scripts and colours and not visible. FireFox shows things perfectly. What can be the reason, please?

    frequently that is a result of the errors I linked to above.

    Your site may look quite different between browsers, and even computer to comnputer until you clean up the errors

    Thread Starter yulitchka

    (@yulitchka)

    Thank you!

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