site not displaying on explorer

If you are referring to problems solely in Internet Explorer Version 8, then others have reported the same problem on your (pink-tulip) Theme’s home page. They direct you to this page for a solution:
https://www.dewpointproductions.com/seo_blog/wordpress/wordpress-ie8-fix-for-display-problems/

I’ve looked at the validation error for my site and there are about 72 errors. But I cannot see exactly the errors that it is telling me to correct.

With Safari, Firefox, Chrome My website seems to work just fine, but then: I happened to look at it on an Internet Explorer version 8 browser and WOW! Totally messed up everywhere! Not even the same font!

Here’s my website:

https://www.pizzascene.com/

I’ve even tried putting that meta data tag in the header and nothing.

Validation is not my area of expertise, and I note that you seem to be using your company’s own custom theme, so I cannot point you to info on your Theme.

But this is a pretty good place to start, if you haven’t already seen it:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Validating_a_Website

I’m sure that validating my website has everything to do with it because I reverted back to the normal template that I originally had (before I started to customize everything) And you can view it perfectly on IE. I didn’t really think I edited too much important stuff out, but apparently I did… Either way, I have this problem and all of the validation stuff is mainly xhtml or html, but what if all of wordpress files are php… what then? It tells me that it’s not even coded to read the format that want and errors are happening everywhere…

WordPress .php files are a mixture of HTML, and php code that generates HTML. The end result of that “static” HTML and php-generated HTML is what has to be validated. You can see it yourself using View Source on your browser.

As well as validation, you should also explore Cross-Browser Testing. Here is a somewhat outdated article that I found helpful: https://freelancefolder.com/7-fresh-and-simple-ways-to-test-cross-browser-compatibility/
And the most useful sites I found to actually do it, the last time I did some (fairly light duty) testing:
https://browsershots.org/
https://browserlab.adobe.com

I will definitely look into that.

The thing is.. I see the errors but I cannot necessarily find the problem in the php files.

For example I validate every page, but wordpress has a master page that it makes all the pages from. so my home page has an error that all my other pages will positively have. but when doing the w3c validation it tells me what to correct as a whole entity, not which specific .php files need the correcting. it basically gives me one huge html site, but not what to fix in regards to wordpress… anyway, I’ll be doing some more research. Thanks…

YES!!!!! Problem solved!!!! I left something that I was supposed to delete in the header… basically I didn’t want the title of the blog to display in the header, and I deleted everything except a dumb little <h1> tag… That’s why my website was looking so big and bold in explorer… WOW!!! so dumb…

Thanks for all your help.

All other browsers automatically fix the problem… except IE… I really don’t like them.

Written before I saw your response:

Yes, Validators just look at the HTML that is output. And have no way to “seeing” where it came from, i.e. – what .php files are involved.

I already knew quite a bit of php before I started using WordPress, so I did a lot of my own tracing. I also read “WordPress for Dummies” when the second edition came out in paper form. Since then, I’ve grown to rely on the Codex. Here is probably the best place to start:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes#Theme_Files as it lists the files in a Theme, and gives links to more details on how Themes and Templates work.

As for disliking IE, you are not alone. Unfortunately, IE is still the most popular browser out there among your visitors.

Be sure to insert that meta data tag as IE8 is especially troublesome.