My website - redesigned

**Zach L.** · 01-05-2005

Getting the same white line in Safari.

**Thantos** · 01-05-2005

Originally Posted by axon

weirdo

well, I changed some things, like added the closing img tags, and it still says they are wrong...but the one that really get me is the first error about the meta tag...what am I doing wrong there?

edit:: mike, can you please sign on for a few minutes...I'll be by the puter till about 1:30-2 central

Sorry by the time I read this it was 10 till 1 pacific.

The problem with the meta tag is that you never close it.
should be something like this (insert your own [stuff] )
<meta [stuff] />

Same thing goes for the img tags. Also img tags require that you specify an alt value. ie:
<img src="killbill.jpg" alt="Penguin in Jump Suit" />

As a note:
I saw this:

Code:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;removed

Chaining non breaking spaces like this can have a nasty side effect of not allowing the word wrapping. So instead of wrapping around it just runs over other elements. The better option would be to put spaces between the non breaking spaces. Unless of course you don't want the word to wrap.

You could get rid of a majority of the errors just by doing a find and replace (case insenstive because you screwed up) for <br> and replace it with <br/>

**adrianxw** · 01-05-2005

I terminate my breaks as well. I have a couple of pages on my site that have a strange white line on them when viewed with FF.

**dagdarian** · 01-05-2005

Alround quite a nice design, might want to put some cellpadding on, for your tables. i dont like black text flush to a black border. just a thought...

**axon** · 01-05-2005

>>Alround quite a nice design, might want to put some cellpadding on, for your tables<<

thantos would rape me if I used tables, so they are all css elements

I did pad the boxes with content (the ones with a left border - didn't pad the title boxes though, should I?

**axon** · 01-05-2005

The problem with the meta tag is that you never close it.
should be something like this (insert your own [stuff] )
<meta [stuff] />

that is what I have on all my meta tags...and it still says there is an error

**Thantos** · 01-05-2005

Originally Posted by axon

that is what I have on all my meta tags...and it still says there is an error

Lair
From your page:

meta name="keywords" content="poetry, poems, Jakub Bomba, Milad Amani, short story, short stories, essays, essay, literature, books, creativity, writer, prose, author, creative writing">
<meta name="description" content="creativeoutlet:: place where two young writers express themselves with poetry, prose, and more.">

It should be

meta name="keywords" content="poetry, poems, Jakub Bomba, Milad Amani, short story, short stories, essays, essay, literature, books, creativity, writer, prose, author, creative writing" />
<meta name="description" content="creativeoutlet:: place where two young writers express themselves with poetry, prose, and more."/>

**-KEN-** · 01-05-2005

Aren't meta tags (outside of content-type, etc) pretty useless anyhow? I mean, back in the day when search engines like metacrawler used meta tags they were useful, but I'm pretty sure that Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and most other modern search engines don't.

edit: Oops, I guess I'm wrong. A google for "amphoric dream" brings up "amphoric dream:: place where two young writers express themselves through poetry,
prose, random rants, and more. Amphoric Dream http://amphoricdream.com/." as one of the descriptions. I could have sworn I read somewhere that google doesn't use meta tags anymore, though.

I'm thinking that the article said that it disregards the keywords. That makes more sense, since google as a better way of linking keywords to your site.

**Thantos** · 01-05-2005

IIRC google doesn't use meta tags to rank a site. But I do think they still give the meta description if there is one, otherwise they show a preview of the body.

**ober** · 01-05-2005

Interestingly enough... I don't have meta tags on my site, and searches for "whproductions" and "windy hill productions" do not bring up direct links to my personal site.

**axon** · 01-05-2005

ok, I got ird of the white line that was appearing in FF.... what caused it was a <p> tag that was not terminated in the <div> where it was declared...go figure.

**axon** · 01-05-2005

ok I have one error left: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...fffiles.com%2F

but it has something to do with the code provided by my stat counter - not sure what to do about it...any ideas?

**Zach L.** · 01-05-2005

<random>
Whoa...
I hadn't looked too closely at the spelling of your website's name...
For some reason, I thought 'amphoric' was 'amorphic'...

</random>

**Quantrizi** · 01-05-2005

Originally Posted by axon

ok I have one error left: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...fffiles.com%2F

but it has something to do with the code provided by my stat counter - not sure what to do about it...any ideas?

Use a better counter (http://hotscripts.com has a lot). If it's one from BraveNet or something, they usually always contain an error or 500.