Andrea

Not exactly what I had in mind, either.....

Yeah, but not this one - we'd consider that SPAM and don't like that

I just looked at your page briefly, not the code, just the page in Firefox. It doesn't look so good. The text runs all the way over to the right edge of the screen, the ad boxes cover part of it, and at least the last letter (or more?) in each line is not even visible any more. And after writing this, I did look at the code ---- OUCH! Start with a proper doctype (HTML 4.01 STRICT - including the link to W3S - like so and take it from there. We're here to help if you have questions.

It sounds more like the new upload hasn't happened yet - because when I enter enter.html I still see what should be index.shtml - and under index.shtml, the original index page still comes up. Also, if you create a 'splash' page, you may want to change all the links to "Home" to go to your (once it works) former index page, not to index.shtml so people don't have to 're-enter' every time they go 'home'.

I changed my mind, that Gigolo idea no longer seems so great.

So Kyle is right then and I should hire a Gigolo? Just to do my part?

I've worked on a site hosted by earthlink before, it took just an index file as the main one. Make sure you only have ONE page uploaded named index.whatever.

Look again - the url is there, just has spaces in it - that's to avoid the appearance of spam

Which image are you talking about? I see the orange/rose background that repeats x and y (with a very notifiable seam, btw) - and then I see the border to the right and left of your content, which repeats nicely unitl it reaches the height limit you have set in your inline styling. Is there some other image that should be repeating?

Using the short forms doesn't actually make it work any better, just makes the code cleaner. You still have a mix of tables and divisions, missing closing tags, use of deprecated tags, and many other coding errors.

You do realize that there is all kinds of INLINE CSS in your HTML which will override anything you put in your EXTERNAL stylesheet? Also * { margin:0; padding:0; } sets EVERY margin and padding to zero, so adding body { margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; is redundant - aside from that, writing margin: 0; would be all you need here - the zero (or whatever number) automatically applies to all 4 sides, and since it's zero, no unit is needed, as 0 px is as much as 0em or 0%.

If you say so.... Maybe evil Firefox takes the height settings

Firefox shows you what you wrote, while IE overlooks many mistakes and shows what it thinks you meant - a good website is written with a clean and validating (error free) code, so everything displays in the standard compliant browsers (like Firefox) the way it should - and then you use conditional comments to make things work in IE. I ran your page through the validator and it shows 1016 Errors. Fix those first and then take it from there. It's really NOT Firefox's fault :/

Without seeing your page, there's no way to give you any good answer. Can you provide a link? To avoid the Spam detectors here, provide it with spaces like so: ww w.myli nk.com

...and unrelated to the code, but it caught my eye: Southfeild should probably be Southfield?

I cannot help you with MySQL errors, but I can point out several HTML errors you have as well: Your doctype line is missing the link Meta tag and link to CSS belong INSIDE head section, not above it Instead of writing: - use your external stylesheet. You use " --- - Note the case discrepancy - not wrong, but source of frequent problems. It's best to consistently write all tags in lower case all the time See id="navigation"> - You don't name a closing tag. P.S. - I just noticed that your code to the 'home' and maintenance link is incorrect, too. (Note your "s and >s)

She means there are no polite words to describe this site - and Susie is too nice to use the other words How do you mean?

My vet has a beautiful site, too - ww w.mysav et.com I even designed a new index page for them and sent them the link offering the redesign of the entire site for cheap, but never heard back from them.

To add to Stef's list: - Adding one or more links to your site(s) as sort of a 'signature' to your posts, is also considered SPAM and will be deleted. Once you get beyond 15 posts and are seen as a productive member of the forum, you are welcome to include a link to your site in your signature. Please keep in mind, however, that all links on this site use the "nofollow" attribute, so they probably will not count from an SEO perspective. - Posting URLs to sites unrelated to the topic, is SPAM and will be deleted. - Folks posting stuff like "Good Idea" or other insignificant statements just so they can add a link to their site(s) are considered spammers and will be banned. - Any status updates that appear to simply be spam may be deleted If you need to post a link to a page that is the subject of your inquiry, and to avoid the appearance of spam, add SPACES to the url - that way, we can still visit your page, but Google will never find it. EXAMPLE: w ww.kil lersit es.com NOTE that a space has to be somewhere between the three Ws, else the forum automatically creates a link.

...also, virtual is correct with his explanation re paths. I learned long ago that using absolute paths to the CSS and to anything out of the CSS saves a lot of problems down the road - then it does not matter what folder something is, it'll always be right.

It really would be so much easier for us to help you if you could upload your pages - you can just create a temp folder on your server or something.

Even an incorrect doctype likely wouldn't cause any issues with your background image displaying. But to ensure the cleanest code possible, it's better to use a strict doctype, not transitional or loose.

http://www.killersites.com/mvnforum/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=2139

It's not a matter of opinion - that is the proper, intended use. IDs for anything that only shows up once, and classes for stuff that's used more than once - on any given page (not site).

I use *{padding: 0; margin: 0;} on all my CSS - various browsers have various default settings for various properties, and setting them all to 0 first and then adding the exact measurement you want later, prevents many cross-browser inconsistencies. However, the opinions are divided - I find the above is simple and fast and takes care of everything at once, others belief it to be more efficient to only set to zero those properties that could be affected like so: body, address, blockquote, dl, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre { margin:0; padding:0; }