firefox whitespace of late and opera too, no theme

Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of specific help.

it is somewhat embarassing and it is a “private” site so I should have posted this to wordpress.com forum

https://www.fraudbusterbob.com/sandbox

Check your logs, the style.css is missing so you’re getting no formatting.

Make sure you have a stylesheet attached and that it’s CSS rules included.

CSS rules are there ? hsve you ruled this out looking at source?

Yes, the style sheet returns a 404 when I tried looking at it.

yes I am looking at the directory reference:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/change-get_bloginfostylesheet_directory-and-stylesheet_url?replies=2

mine has:
bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/style-ie.css”/>
<?php } else { ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘ sheet_directory’); ?>/style.css”/>
<?php } ?>
Not linking right

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” media=”screen”>

That will point to the default style.css in the theme folders root.

better! No there is a style adjustment problem but it is loading something!
hrrp://fraudbusterbob.com/sandbox

we’re good! thanks made adjustments as noted and it’s been a long time coming! now for XHTML strict? Anyone? ??

You’re a glutton for punishment! It’s passed validation as XHTML transitional so that’s good for a start!

I think the only problem with the strict or at leaast one of them was podpress needing a filter for old _new/_blank statements which ntm is working on.

Nice to have community support. There were several people who kept me motivated and on point here in forums and site5 staff. It takes a village to get it right. ??