Site looks terrible in IE7

uh,

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.makebigmoney.co.za%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

work on the 3 7 2 validation issues.

Goodness me!

Thanks for pointing that out honeycomb, will do my best to fix those errors and see if it fixes.

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actually, I typo’d its 272 but thats still a lot.

You didn’t “typo” it was 372 but I’m guessing you had another look after I had already fixed 100.

Managed to get rid of some, it’s still on 223 Errors and now I’m a bit stuck!! Lot of these errors seem to be the same problem, so if you fix 1 error then it knocks 10 or 20 off the total but I’ve got to a point where my technical ability and understanding is stopping me from fixing the rest.

Aaaarrggghhh!!

The portion of your theme that shows the Social Bookmarking sites – is that the result of a plugin or have you hardcoded parts of it?

Specifically on the digg links you’re generating a lot of errors because you’re not encoding the ampersands.

On line 110 where it shows &title= it should read &title= the same is true in a few other spots. Where it says &bodytext= it should say &bodytext=.

This is just an encoding issue but it might clear up quite a few of those errors.

Also, image tags always end with />, not just >, and they must have an alt attribute, even if it’s empty, like this:

<img src="url to image" alt="" />

Thank You so much guys for your help, I have found the main cause, it was a google link ad unit that was running in the header that was causing this problem.

What this has done though is opened my eyes to all the coding errors within my site which I will now start fixing!!

Thanks again
Justin.

Justin,

Do yourself a favor and grab the HTML Validator extension for Firefox – it will help you find coding problems without constantly reloading the w3 validation site.

It uses the View Source window to show you the errors and usually tells you exactly how to correct them too. Definitely a priceless tool.

Even if you only run Firefox to get the code validated it’s totally worth it.

WildBil2Me,

Great tip, will def get hold of that now.

Thank You.