personal site-- need some help.

[boi]

http://boi.inversiondesigns.com/journalindex.php

it's just a personal site where i throw my journal entries and thoughts and random crap like that-- but there's some weirdness going on.

i think there's something wrong with my iframe code, so could everyone post screenshots of what the site looks like and what system/browser they're using?

i'm especially worried about IE for Mac (the iframe isn't showing up at all) and IE for Windows (the iframe is crammed up on the right).

anyway, lemme know.

also-- let me know if the random banner thing is working. i'm not sure if i have to clear the banner out of the cache for it to work. it works on my machine, but some people are telling me they get the same pic every time.

thanks!

 

[Giaguara]

chimera 0.60, 28 nov build, jaguar 10.2.3

(scaled down)

 

[edX]

icab 2.8.2 (latest build), imac, dsl connection, 10.1.5

i get different banners if i reload

 

[mdnky]

Not working on IE 5.2 on OSX. iFrame isn't there.

How are you coding this? In what program? The structure for the code is in need of a major cleanup. There is alot of spaces and stuff that could be causing problems.

 

[Alex]

I'd be careful with frames...

Mostly because IE doesnt like it... and as much as us Mac Heads might not like IE... its on every computer *unless you delete it*...

not to mention, it takes alot longer to load than an include...

I see your using PHP... do you know how to use includes?

 

[boi]

heh, the entire page is created with php and includes. that's why the source looks so funky. i'm writing php Applications with skins, so it's all by hand, believe you me. the original php code looks pretty good before it gets put to HTML.

 

[mdnky]

Ok, here goes.

I cleaned up the code and fixed some of the out of place or missing tags. That wasn't it. So then I thought maybe the "styles" you had on the tables were causing it not to display in IE. So I put them in stylesheet format in the head and used a class tag for the table. That wasn't it. I copied the code for the iframe and put it at the bottom of the page just above the /body tag...it appeared at the bottom in IE. So I Put a 500px spacer in the cell with the iframe, voila. It appeared in the place it should in IE!

The cell the iFrame was in had no width specified. The iframe was there, just wasn't showing because the iframe tag had a width attribute of 100%. 100% of 0 is 0.

Here's a link to the file I modified if you want to see what I mean. I wound up x'ing the spacer and just specifying the width of the cells the navigation and iframe are in.

http://homepage.mac.com/mdnky/boi2.html

 

[edX]

and mdnky's version looks like this in icab - getting better. at least i can see text now.

 

[mdnky]

The problem Ed found with iCab is probably something in the code of the page loaded in the iframe.

 

[mdnky]

Here's a shoot from Win2KPro with IE6

 

[Alex]

I've been using MacOS9 for some time, and when I viewed your page with IE in MacOS9... at first it didn't work right...

I tried it just now, and you seem to have it working well.

Hope that semi helps maybe lol