I uploaded a modified page (index) to a test sub domain and it displays with many special characters - view page source code shows them.

I download html code into html editor and all looks good (same thing if I edit web page from direct FTP).

Test page is: lhs58.com/test/index

I will appreciate help with this.

Try removing
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>

Removing the line of code that Bruce suggest may work, but the real cause is the "modified" method. When you suggest that you "modified" the page, what exactly did you modify? I ask because this is the kind of result you could get when someone copies the text, web page or code from a source and pastes it into some other editor. What it is doing is trying to "copy" all the blank spaces, even tho it will not show up on the editor.

Remedy:
Use any text editor, (coffeecup html editor will work nicely). Type the entire code for that page yourself. Do not copy/paste anything at all. Type it in and save it as a new file. That will work. There is actually nothing wrong with the line Bruce said to remove. The problem could re-surface if you paste anything into the page later.

One more note before you start typing all the code:
In your code, you have lines like this:

Notice how you have two <font> and two </font> tags? You only need one because you only have one string of font in between the tags. A font can't be Calligula and Constantia at the same time. Â

Now notice at the end of my sentence in the above post. I have 2 squares of special character after my last word "time."
That is because I copied a line from your code. The fix should not be for Coffeecup to modify their meta tags, because the meta tag is not the cause, it's the copying of the code that has caused this, not the web page.

I deleted the line and got same results, then read Cliff's note.

Cliff - very helpful - will try that tonight.

All of my coding has been done using HTML Editor with some changes in Direct FTP, dragging code into edit window.

May not be accurate statement, since I originally used VSD, but cannot upload from that - I may have taken code generated by that, uploaded from folder after viewing html code, and modified in Direct FTP. I did not keep audit trail of sequence in which I did things.

Cliff - I did not review code generated by html editor or vsd, but I might not have caught the extra font occurences - good thing for me to know and be aware of - I have read many of your comments in the Forums and learned a great deal from them - I had many years programming, but html and web pages are new to me, as you have seen.

I forwarded some of the comments and picture of your dog to my wife - what is her name (your dog)? How did she help you get out of doors with your back problem? I have almost always had a dog - trained some for pointing dog field trials, had Golden Retriever and German Shepherd among my favorite dogs and would be very interested in hearing more about yours - you can email me at Lee@pinesoft.com with anything you care to share with me so that we don not use Forums space for non cc related information.

Thanks,

Lee

Lee, sent you an email. Watch for it from chain@...

So, when is pinesoft going to get away from trellix and go CoffeeCup design?

Cliff,

Received your email and forwarded to my wife (we do live together, but I work so many hours that email is a large part of our communications). I told her that happy tears came to my eyes when I read it and I actually laughed out loud when I read about the games Tiny "lets you play".

As far as the Trellix is concerned, I had to get a web site up quickly for my privately owned company (my full time job is as IT Director for a manufacturing company). I will give you more info in an email about that, but back to why Trellix - I have web hosting with Earthlink for Pinesoft.com and they have Trellix Site Builder as their free-with-web-hosting Site Builder and I used that to get a necessary site in place - expediency, not choice - had no knowledge of Coffee Cup Software, or interest in learning HTML at that time.

You can probably see that I am really committed to CC now and apologize for asking so many questions as I get my feet wet in this area.

Thanks,

Lee

No need to apologize about asking questions. That is what the forum is for. I use CC software every day, and sometimes I learn new things by answering questions and discovering new ways to apply the programs. Feel free to visit my new site (a work in progress at the starting stages) www.mainsites.ca
It is 100% Coffeecup. Well, almost, but just in the programming. No other software was used or injured in the making of the website!

Now I need to clean the coffee off my monitor.

Great programmer and funny also.

Bill,
I somehow find your line amazingly funny on it's own...not sure if it's the punn, the double entendre or the purely unintentional commedy in the keystrokes (I know that makes no sense, and no I did not smoke anything) but I just can't stop laughing @ how funny it now all sounds when I read it!
THANK YOU FOR THE BAD CASE OF HAHA'S I'M STUCK WITH! I needed it.

P.S.
thank you equaly for the compliment.