Base template upgrade

[jessay]

ME AGAIN. Good grief.

Anyway, I tried to update my base template following the system upgrade and it wipes out all of the column/header/footer borders, places purple (ick!) borders around all images, and basically creates havoc on my site. I've since replaced the code with the original and now have an IE "done, but with errors on page" message after loading. What's up? Please, please don't tell me that I'm going to have to do EVERYTHING over again because I have already spent far too long getting this site to what I want it to look like .

Thanks again!

[kerry]

Hi there - Just thought you might like to know your blogharbor blog is not the only one showing the yellow triangle with exclamation mark, and the message "Done, but with errors on page." Robin's at Now Smell This is showing the same. The format you describe is the same as when Babelfish is clicked on to translate a page - just underlined links - no formatting or images etc. It's an emergency! Call the surgeon!

[john]

[john]

[john]

Some errors in your Custom CSS which might (I really don't know) make IE throw errors:

• Look for this line:
  
  

  Code:

  .articleBody {     font: 12px Verdana,Georgia,'Lucida Grande','Times New Roman',Times,serif;     line-height: 150%;     color: #666666     clear: both; }

  
  
  You're missing the finishing semicolon on the color attribute.
  
  
• Look for these lines:
  
  

  Code:

  .postDate {     font: Verdana;     font-weight: bold;     font-size: 16px;     margin: 0 0 18px 0;     background-color: transparent;     color: #996633;     white-space: nowrap; } .photoPostDate {     font: Verdana;     font-size: 16px;     font-weight: bold;     margin: 6px 0 0 0;     padding: 4px 0 2px 0;     background-color: transparent;     color: #996633;     white-space: nowrap;     border-top: 1px dotted #999; }

  
  
  Those are invalid declarations for the font class, font needs to be specified like this:
  
  

  Code:

  font: normal 12px verdana,arial,geneva,sans-serif;

  
  
  If you are just specifying the font face, you would use this:
  
  

  Code:

  font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;

  
  
  
• Look for this:
  
  

  Code:

  #leftcol .componentHead {     margin: 0px;     padding: 0px 4px 0px 4px;         text-decoration: none;     font-size: 16px !important;     font-weight: bold;     background-color: transparent;     color: #996633;     white-space: nowrap;     text-align: left;     text-transform: lowercase;     border: none; }

  
  
  You're missing the } between those 2 classes....
  
  Try finxing that up and see if it makes IE happier.
  
  
  
  

[kerry]

Hello there,

Just to elaborate on my previous comments:

1. I've viewed Now Smell This on three different machines with differing speeds (56kbs to 100mb - gov't machines), and the status bar is still giving the message "Done but with errors on page".

2. I saw the same message, and the format described by flackfolio above when I used the instructions to update my base template in your News article on the weekend.

3. A comparison with the code there, and with my (now) default base template shows that {{blog.custom_head}} - (if this code is eaten by the forum software, what I'm referring to is blog.custom_head with double brackets) - is missing from your instructions. Without it, the page loads without images or color etc (that was my experience). Is that where the problem lies?

[jessay]

Everything looks fantastic! You're a gem!
Thanks again John, for all of your help.

Jessica

[john]

I've viewed Now Smell This on three different machines with differing speeds (56kbs to 100mb - gov't machines), and the status bar is still giving the message "Done but with errors on page".

Yes, and this message has absolutely nothing to do with any changes to our templates. Did you know that if you click that little icon on IE it will tell you what it thinks the errors are? Go ahead and click it, you will see what IE has a problem with. Now Smell This displays ads from a service called Chitika by including a Javascript in the page, and IE is complaining about something in that Chitika Javascript.

I saw the same message, and the format described by flackfolio above when I used the instructions to update my base template in your News article on the weekend.

I can only guess that you made a mistake somewhere. I can confirm that your blog works fine, your templates do not need updating, and that commenting is functional on your blog.

A comparison with the code there, and with my (now) default base template shows that {{blog.custom_head}} - (if this code is eaten by the forum software, what I'm referring to is blog.custom_head with double brackets) - is missing from your instructions.

The instructions were never meant to provide a complete description of what may or may not appear in your template, my apologies if you read it that way.

Without it, the page loads without images or color etc (that was my experience). Is that where the problem lies?

Your interpretation of what {{blog.custom_head}} does is not correct, and again I do not see any problem with your blog templates.