Grrr. AuthorScoop needs your help! (IE display issues)

I'm getting reports from readers that some parts of AuthorScoop are not displaying properly in Internet Explorer. All pages are supposed to be black text on a white background. We're hearing that some of the pages are loading to a black background with grey letters, and even then, it's only in certain geographical locations that this is happening.

If you're around and care to lend your eyes and comments, I would thank you very much!

http://authorscoop.com/2010/06/04/aaaahhh-technology/

Bump for "please!"

This is a very weird problem and I'm trying to narrow down any common denominators.

Thank you!

Cranky said:

Dunno what you're looking for, exactly, Perks, but FWIW, the text is hardly showing up at all for those pages, and I'm using Vista/IE7.

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That's what I'm looking for. It's supposed to be black text on a white background, but on those pages (and a few others) it's showing up grey on black. But only on Internet Explorer and only on certain pages and only in certain geographical locations.

In parts of Texas, it's loading completely fine in all browsers.

Aaaagggghhhh!

Thank you, Madam.

Cranky said:

Yep, very light grey on black is what I'm seeing. I'm in Nebraska, if that matters.

You're very welcome.

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What are you doing in Nebraska?! Get out of there immediately. What are you thinking? You might get a little Midwest on you.

veinglory said:

I am not an html wiz, but your span code doesn't look correctly formed to me.

<span style="color: #ffffff;">

Shouldn't that be:

<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">

?

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Hmmmm. I'm going to forward that to the powers-that-know-what-it-means. Lol! I don't know all that much about the clockworks behind a webpage.

I'm going to send this to William and his minions. I'm a minion, but of the non-technical variety.

Thanks so much!

backslashbaby said:

It looks good in my ie7.

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It does? Black letters on a white background? You're in NC, aren't you? I'm west of you and it's all messed up here, but I have IE8 anyway.

That's very weird.

veinglory said:

You might want to check people are looking at the links, not the blog itself.

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It seems to be a problem either way, but only with certain posts.

Big sigh.

Medievalist said:

I suspect that there's a tag in those posts that isn't closed, or something similarly minor, like an extra space.

I'll try to look at the html later.

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I don't know much html, but you inspired me to look at two posts that seemed to be having particular problems.

The both had weird code, so I just stripped it out et voila! It works!


Thank you!

And yay me! I actually fixed something!

Shadow_Ferret said:

What is Author Scoop?

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AuthorScoop is a site for literary news and commentary. There are five basic features every day -

Morning LitLinks (links to current news stories about writing, writers, and/or the publishing industry)
Afternoon Viewing (a daily video clip pertaining to something literary - often an author interview or reading)
Evening Book Reviews (a handful of links to current book reviews)
Quote of the Night (something writerly from some writerly person)

There's also a popular original interview segment '5 Minutes Alone'
and a new feature 'Kill Your Darling... Babies?'
where authors of every sort, experience, and achievement level write original content for AuthorScoop. There's poetry and discussion and commentary, that sort of thing.

The site is owned and run by William Haskins. I'm also a managing editor.

veinglory said:

Tuuurn to nerd side, Luke.

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I'm a bull in a china shop, I tell you.