Is it a Bug? Or, is it Just Me?

chuckinsocal · March 9, 2009

Hi Gang,

Lately, when I add or edit photo captions and click the Save button, I see the Saving Your Caption thingy in the upper left corner of the screen, but the edit box does not close unless or until I reload the page. It's not the end of the world, but it does make working with captions a lot more tedious and time consuming than it needs to be.

Is it a bug? Or, is it just me. If it's a bug, will it be fixed? If it's just me, what can I do to fix it?

Thanks.

Chuck Cannova

chuckinsocal · March 10, 2009

Hello???

jfriend · March 10, 2009

You have all sorts of HTML errors in your pages, lots of mismatched HTML tags. I'd suggest you clean all that up first and then we can troubleshoot any further if needed.

First, your navbar has lots of missing </font> tags. I'd suggest changing your entire custom header to this:

<div id="my_banner"> </div>

<div id="navcontainer">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.socalimages.com">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.socalimages.com/gallery/4372113_cuDHA/">Life on the SoCal Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.socalimages.com/gallery/4345166_vEzY5">Classic Ride Images</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.socalimages.com/keyword">Keywords</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:chuck@socalimages.com">Contact Me</a></li>
</ul>
</div>


[B]<[/B]script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"[B]>[/B]
CheckRedirects();
[B]<[/B]/script[B]>[/B]

Then, change this CSS rule to this to add back the bold and the desired color:

#navcontainer ul li a {
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: .2em 1em;
    color: #b0c4de;
    background-color: #000;
    font-weight: bold;
}

Then, change your album description to this:

<div id="albumDescription">
            
<div id="galleryHeadline">Surfing in SoCal ... It's a Beach</div>

<div id="mySearchwords">
beach pacific coast sand cliffs sunset california socal "southern California" "pacific ocean" surf surfer surfing san diego "san diego" carlsbad oceanside encinitas harbor "oceanside harbor" 
</div>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #FFFFFF" bordercolor="#111111" width="950" bgcolor="#000000" height="70">  
    <tr>
        <td width="850" height="23" colspan="2" align="center">
            <font face="Verdana" size="1" valign="middle">
                <center>
                    <span style="vertical-top: middle">
                        <font color="#FFFF00">
                            Receive E-Mail notifications when new photos are added to this gallery
                        </font>
                    </span>
                    <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2551008&loc=en_US" target="_blank">
                        <img src="http://www.customrideportraits.com/photos/274837366_WbgZy-Th.jpg" hspace="5" border="0" align="center" width="75" height="22">
                    </a>
                </center>
            </font><br>
        </td>
    </tr>      
    <tr>
        <td width="425" height="10" align="right">
            <b><i><a href="http://chuckinsocal.smugmug.com/gallery/4372113_cuDHA/">Back to Life on the SoCal Coast</a></i></b>
        </td>
        <td width="425" height="10" align="left">     
            <form name="jump">      
                <select name="menu" onChange="location=document.jump.menu.options[document.jump.menu.selectedIndex].value;" value="GO" style="#000000:''; color: #FFFFFF; font-style: italic; border: 0px solid; background: #325d8b">
                      <option value="http://www.socalimages.com/">More SoCal Galleries</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/4372113_cuDHA">Home</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894135_z5RqV#P-1-15">Beach & Seascapes</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894248_EzXsm#P-1-15">Surfing & Surfers</option>

                      <option value="/gallery/6067478_Txzk8#P-1-15">Carlsbad Scenes</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/5903523_h7Jt6#P-1-15">Cycling Through Carlsbad</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/5914727_bcm6x#P-1-15">Tide Pools</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894212_WtZ3w#P-1-15">Coastal Wildlife</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894224_fvVH8#P-1-15">Ships & Boats</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894202_ijr4E#P-1-15">Pacific Sunsets</option>

                      <option value="/gallery/3894234_hDXki#P-1-15">Abstracts</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/6492381_JvZBB#P-1-15">Leo Carrillo Ranch</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/4056833_FPUrc#P-1-15">Regional History</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/6654142_PEqLu#P-1-15">Torrey Pines Bridge</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/3894328_eBA8G#P-1-15">Multifarious Images</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/5597168_x79QW#P-1-15">Highrise Foundation</option>

                      <option value="/gallery/5620018_6kiih#P-1-15">Earth Day</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/6118700_8WWRR#P-1-15">Stock Photos</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/7453612_2p9wb#P-1-15">Carlsbad PD at Work</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/5849362_Phcv6#P-1-15">DUI Check Point 8/30/08</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/7054997_vGacq#P-1-15">DUI Check Point 1/02/09</option>
                      <option value="/gallery/7453587_BoZfY#P-1-15">Carlsbad FD at Work</option>
                </select>
            </form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div>

After you've made those changes, I can take another look to see if there are any more HTML errors.

Remember, you have to use matching start and end tags in your custom HTML. And, it's way easier (and less error prone) to style something with CSS than font tags. With these changes I eliminated at least a dozen missing </font> tags, fixed a bunch of mismatched <center> tags, fixed tags that were spaning across the wrong things, added a missing </form> tag, fixed a mistyped </option> tag, etc...

chuckinsocal · March 10, 2009

Good Lord John ... I had no idea my coding was so messed up ... Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me. All this time I thought my site was pretty much done :uhoh.

Thanks for all the time you took to go through it all. I'll work on one issue at a time and hopefully fix more stuff than I mess up in the process.

Thanks again for your help.

chuckinsocal · March 13, 2009

Hey John,

I followed your suggestions plus fixed a few errors I found on my own and the problem I described is gone and the site functions a little better overall.

Just wanted to say thinks again. Your help is appreciated and highly valued.

jfriend · March 13, 2009

chuckinsocal wrote:

Hey John,

I followed your suggestions plus fixed a few errors I found on my own and the problem I described is gone and the site functions a little better overall.

Just wanted to say thinks again. Your help is appreciated and highly valued.

Cool. Glad you're up and running well.

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