Keep getting error in SBI! - Page 2

West · #11 (**permalink**) 04-03-2008, 10:40 AM

I finally figured out why the alignment was off. I added a solid border around the header, leftnav, and sidbar (the original style sheet does not have any borders). The width of the borders were stretching everything out. I had to do a lot of playing around with them, but finally got it to work.

I went back and put in all the original pixel #s, and re-formatted everything else (image size, border width, etc.) around the original pixels. Now, when I view the page in my browser, it looks perfect!

Hopefully I'll have my site completely CSS'd by Monday.

I'm so excited!!

lisa · #12 (**permalink**) 04-03-2008, 11:36 AM

YAY!!

Are you using includes for your navigation, headers, etc?

West · #13 (**permalink**) 04-04-2008, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by lisa

YAY!!

Are you using includes for your navigation, headers, etc?

I've been reading a lot about them in the SBI forums, and lots of people are starting to use includes for absolutely everything that is not page specific. I've been thinking about doing this just in case I ever want to change my overall look & feel, but I'm not quite sure how to set that up.

As for now, I'm just using includes for my navbar and a few affiliate ads for my sidebar.

lisa · #14 (**permalink**) 04-04-2008, 09:11 AM

Oh OK that's what I meant. As long as you're using it for your navbar then that's what matters the most. That would suck to have to update that every time you add a page. The navbar is the most important part.

West · #15 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 07:12 PM

1. I still cannot get my pages to upload correctly. I made a few changes to my template, but I guess I messed something up. The page looks perfect when I view it in Kompozer, but this is how it looks in IE, when I preview it in SBI:

http://www.best-baby-shower-planning....com/test.html

-The entire navbar is supposed to be brown.
-The h1 header should be normal, not bold.
-The links in my content area ar supposed to be purple.
-The greenish border that's around the header and footer, that same border should be around the navbar and sidebar.
-The text in my footer should be the same font as the text in the header.

2. I don't know where I went wrong with my includes. I thought I created one that would work for my navbar yesterday. Today, when I tried to re-save the include file, I keep getting a message telling me to add the <head> tag before saving. But it's not supposed to have tags like that, right?

This is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!

lisa · #16 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 09:13 PM

And of course it looks even different in Firefox. You still have the borders but your nav is not brown and some of the other things you mentioned.

When I checked your style sheet your navbar is set to pink and your H1 tag is set to bold so I see why it's showing that way. Are you sure you re-uploaded your style sheet?

lisa · #17 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 10:02 AM

Oh and I didn't respond to the include comment. You should definitely not have anything in your include files but your code. Is SBI! telling you this or is Komposer asking you to add the <head>?

West · #18 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by lisa

And of course it looks even different in Firefox. You still have the borders but your nav is not brown and some of the other things you mentioned.

When I checked your style sheet your navbar is set to pink and your H1 tag is set to bold so I see why it's showing that way. Are you sure you re-uploaded your style sheet?

Don't I feel like an idiot!!!!! I was not re-uploading the style sheet. I thought as long as I saved it to my files, the changes would automatically stick. Now, it looks the way it should in the SBI! preview.

As for the includes, I'm getting the error from Kompozer. It won't let me save the file without a <head> tag.

Thanks so much for all your help Lisa. I really appreciate it.

lisa · #19 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 02:48 PM

GRRRRREAT! Looks nice!

For your includes, I'd just open them up in Notepad or another basic text editor and save them because you definitely cannot upload any include files to SBI! with the extra code. It could screw things up since you already have a <head> tag.

rohan · #20 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 03:24 PM

West/Sonya, you may like this tip. As you build your pages in Kompozer, you may want to preview them before uploading (I know I preview a gazillion times before uploading them), but it's a pain to go all the way through SBI to preview. Rohit from SBI created a cool widget that allows you to preview everything with one click (both in firefox and explorer) if you have both. I'm not an affiliate or anything like that, just a recommedation for anyone who cannot preview without uploading to sitebuilder. Super little program.

http://www.website-squad.com/free-downloads.html

it's 20 bucks I think. You'll thank me later :-)

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