Mysterious problem with pages not displaying properly.

Andy Dingley wrote:

It was somewhere outside Barstow when New Conservative
78738 (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:


However, it transpires that on many other people's browsers,
the pages don't display properly at all.


The site was created with Serif's PagePlus9, BTW.


Well that's you problem. The whole site coding is complete crap and
it looks like it's Serif's fault.

I suggest an upgrade to FrontPage.

A better grade of crap?

[f-u's to alt.html only--this has nothing to do with accessibility]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:16:23 +0000, Toby Inkster
<usenet200503 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

New Conservative wrote:

Here's the site: www.newconservativeparty.org

I *would* help you, only you're a tory.

Er, we're certainly *not* tories, I can assure you. I could even
*prove* it if I could get these problems with the site sorted out!

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"Suffer no one to tell you what to think."
Martin Smith, the New Conservative Party.
masmith (AT) new (DOT) extractthis.c...ativeparty.org
http://www.newconservativeparty.org

From: New Conservative <78738 (AT) virgin_not_for_mail (DOT) net
Organization: The New Conservatives
Reply-To: 78738 (AT) virgin_not_for_mail (DOT) net
Newsgroups: alt.html.web-accessibility,alt.html
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:44:36 GMT
Subject: Mysterious problem with pages not displaying properly.

Hi all,

A colleague of mine has put together a web site which shows up
faultlessly on the browsers I use on two separate computers in my
home. However, it transpires that on many other people's browsers,
the pages don't display properly at all. Sometimes there's missing
text formatting, sometimes the colors don't render properly and in one
case, all someone could see was the original html source code! I'm
baffled! Can anyone identify the problem?

Here's the site: www.newconservativeparty.org

As I say, it displays fine here, but probably not on a browser near
you. :-| The site was created with Serif's PagePlus9, BTW.

Well, it is truly dreadful even when it "shows up ok" as on my machines...
there is not much point in trying to sort out such a "generated" mess. Best
to get rid of the generator. It is hard to believe that for just what is
presented, the code should be so ... so... complex and inelegant. Use a
simple css external stylesheet and trust it (don't be throwing in tons of
css inline), a few divs in a simple html source page, bring the font size
down, line things up in a tidier way, don't say it is under construction.
Construct something that has some quality and as you improve it, improve it
without saying a word.

Sorry, it has put me in a bad mood...


dorayme