Website problem, help me test it..

[wargasms]

working out the final kinks in the website. One of the members of my group says the page doesnt fully show up for him on IE 6. But it shows perfectly for me on IE 6 and Firefox 1.5.


I was just wondering if some of you can look at the page and see if you have the same problem...or any html guru's can find any scripting problems that would be the cause of the issue.

http://www.sleptonfam.com is the website

[mx_mx]

Works fine for me on IE 6...or was this just a fiendish plot to get hits?

[wargasms]

no not at all LOL...i dont want traffic yet until the site is complete..i just want it to work correctly for when i do start promoting.

it works fine for me too on IE 6...i dont get it...

here is a screenshot on how it shows up on only 1 computer in my partners office..

also on IE 6, but on another computer in the same office also running ie 6 it works fine.

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/6969/problem5tu.gif

[mjr]

Originally Posted by wargasms

working out the final kinks in the website. One of the members of my group says the page doesnt fully show up for him on IE 6. But it shows perfectly for me on IE 6 and Firefox 1.5.


I was just wondering if some of you can look at the page and see if you have the same problem...or any html guru's can find any scripting problems that would be the cause of the issue.

http://www.sleptonfam.com is the website

Not a bad site. There does seem to be a delay in loading the top frame. That could be what your friend was talking about. I'm on a T1, and there was about a half second or so delay from the time the bottom frame loaded to the time the main frame loaded.

One of the things I noticed looking at your code was the following:

this line:

<TD vAlign=top align=right width=161 ?height='300"'>

is incorrect. It should be:

<TD vAlign="top" align="right" width="161" height="300">

I don't think you need to wrap your table with <center></center> tags, either.

[Cyanide-Depende]

What did u use to build the site? FrontPage writes shitty code and this looks like a layers problem.

Dreamweaver used to write good layer code, but studio 8 writes shitty code now too.

My suggestion, would be to go back, take all of your layer descriptions and put them in a seperate .css file, link to that and make sure they are allk accurate to what each layer is doing. Make sure you name the layers so you know what your looking at ("Layer 1" is not a name )

Another piece of advise would be to get rid of your frames. Frames are bad for multiple reasons, one of the biggest being searchability. Your meta data is all located on one page which is inside the frame (according to SE's this is 2 pages in and no longer relevant) and if a serch engine finds it people will click and then not have the frame to navigate. Also remember that search engines dont view "meta" tag in the head of your document as relevant on their own, they look to see repeated key words like "hip-hop" "music", or "rap" in your specific case, so remember when writing your content use the words you want to be found under as many times as possible and get other sites that are using those key words to link TO your home page (relevant link exchange, also note that sites that link to you that have no relevant data can HURT your search placement)

I'm sure this was a little more information that what you were looking for, and alot of it was SEO and not fixing your problem, but try the fixes I noted above and let me know if that helps at all.

Also think about your SEO campaigning (this is what i get paid to do at work) and make sure you know how people will be searching for you, pick the top 5 or 10 words tat you think are relevant to your site and use them as many times as possible in the first page and besure to use them at least a few times on each page of the site (building relevance)

Hopefully I have finally given you all some good advice, lol
C$

[wargasms]

thanks for the help!, i will look into what you guys have said..

i have been tinkering all day and the problem seems to be corrected


i wanted frames for ease of navigation....i wanted people in the forum or on our myspace to be able to jump back to the main page instantly. I am driving alot of traffic from street flyer promotion etc....and i think that alot of my browsers will not be very internet savy...so i wanted the navigation as simple as possible.


i actually did the code myself in notepad, lol thats how i learned, and i have never tried any of the html programs.

[grn]

you'd be amazed at what you can do with css, without tables

http://www.csszengarden.com/

[Cyanide-Depende]

Originally Posted by grn

you'd be amazed at what you can do with css, without tables

http://www.csszengarden.com/

You can do pretty much anything you want which is awsome, add drop shadows, create your entire website on ONE page by hiding layers and having the nav links show the layer. It also expands your browser compatibility and helps with SEO.

wargasms: It looks good now, i didn't read your code ('cuz im stupid, lol) but def for later versions of your site look into using css with virtual frames, you'll find that Search engines like google, yahoo, and alta vista will pick you up faster and give you a better page rank.

C$

[wargasms]

thanks, for right now, i did the design myself..

but hopefully i can invest in a nice designer to revamp down the line! thanks for all your help everyone