Viewing with Firefox issue.. (NooB)

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I recently discovered my website has a few pages that do not load correctly in Firefox.. but are ok with IE..

If someone good take a minute and let me know what the issue is and what I need to do to fix it, I would be very grateful.
I'm not very good at HTML.. Did my site with the CofffeCup Editor..


The site is www.rocksolidboards.com...

the pages that are giving me issues are the "RS-36" and "Pedal Platforms"

Thank you in advance.
Chuck
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Hiya Charles,

A little more information is needed as to "what" is displaying incorrectly. I am looking at it right now in FF 3.6.2 and it all looks ok to me, but then I am unsure what it "should" look like so maybe there is something out of place that isn't obvious to me.
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I only took a quick look at your main page, and saw that it is missing a doctype. Without a complete and valid doctype each browser will render differently, with IE being the most different due to its use of the broken box model.
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Jo Ann
The pages that are giving me issues in Firefox are the "RS-36" and "Pedal Platforms" pages.. The other pages are fine in both Firefox and IE.. When those pages load in Firefox, all I see are horizontal bars where the pictures on the right side are..


Cary.. Not sure what you mean by doctype.. can you explain? Is that an easy fix?
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Looks the same for me in the latest IE and FF browsers. Doc Type below.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)" />
<meta name="created" content="Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:25:52 GMT" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
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Ok! Now you guys fixed the problem I was having with the pictures on the pages mentioned above..
But now Im seeing tiny squres between the text on the home page.. and when I click on the "Users Boards" link tab, I get an error message.. Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class utf8 in //boswinfs04\home\users\web\b2296\whl.pageplayer\usersboards\zp-core\lib-utf8.php on line 33
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You have a div above the head section that shouldn't be there

<div align="right"></div>


Don't know what's going on with the users boards. Your charset is iso-8859-1 on the page.
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I don't know about your user boards, but as far as the home page goes, you should change this
<meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type">


to this
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
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I Love It! You guys are on fire! Keep 'em coming!
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Not really anything wrong here but instead of putting your email address on your page where any email harvester/robot/spammer can find and use it, you should either insert an image of it instead (advantage: it isn't a link so the aforementioned bad things can't find it - disadvantage: people have to fill in your address manually and since people these days are lazy, some might not bother) or invest in the CC form builder (or make a form yourself) which takes care of the contact page (which I note doesn't currently work on your site) and masks any of your actual contact info from those spiders/harvesters etc. If you suddenly notice an increase in spam to that address, you are too late, but eventually that will dry up if you change to a masked system. If not, it will just get so bad you will end up going mad.

I also notice the FAQ section renders badly in my browser, Opera, probably due to the large use of spaces for text placement. As soon as the page changes size, or the font changes, everything turns to custard. This would be the same with all browsers. If you need a hand with that, feel free to either contact me directly or ask about it here.

Dave

(Note: I don't work for Coffeecup and only suggest Form Builder because it is dead easy for beginners and experts alike to generate a keen contact form - if you can code you can easily make something similar but with a lot more work and mucking around).

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