Fonts Gone Wild and Things Moved
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So, I went to add a new post today – nothing new – have done it several times without issue. But when I add this latest post, OTHER posts go crazy – changing to a couple of different font sizes — and my sidebar material (Feed and blogroll info) gets dumped to the bottom of the page.
Now, obviously this shouldn’t happen and a user shouldn’t have to go in and change code or anything – this should be natural – just write your post, publish, and move on to the enxt task of the day – why would it do this?
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(1) I see a new post dated February 4th and titled Introducing COTA’S New VP and Director of Marketing, Media Relations and Coach Services
(2) “… changing to a couple of different font sizes — and my sidebar material (Feed and blogroll info) gets dumped to the bottom of the page.”
This is normally the result of one of these two things or both
(a) inserting and over-sized image in a post or in the sidebar;
(b) failing to close an html tag in a post or in a sidebar text widget.(3) Please force clear and reload your browser and then view your blog again
Windows -ctrlF5 – IE or FF
Macs – Cmd-Shift-R – FF
Linux – F5(3) At this point in time your blog looks “normal” in my Firefox 2.0.0.1 browser. Your sidebar is exactly where it belongs and I can see no funky font changes.
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Thanks for the info. I had to delet the most recent post I mentioned which would be above the New VP post – and that’s the one that created mayhem………but I’ll try to repost it and take the other steps you’ve mentioend and see if it works…….btw, there were no images at all in the post I’m talking about.
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drmike, or Moderator, always points out than when we have a post wherein we change fonts or change back and forth from italic lettering to bold lettering to standard lettering that we have to be very careful to close those html tags. If we don’t do that then it can effect our blog posts and sidebar contents. I only know this of course, because I mucked up and he bailed me out. Happy blogging. :)
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It also happens with great regularity when someone copies the text from something like an HTML page or a Word document and pastes it in. Somehow the tags go nuts. When cutting and pasting, I always use Notepad as an intermediary to strip out all tags.
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Dear raincoaster,
Thank you very much, indeed, for your reply. I must confess that from the two alternatives you gave me I didn’t understand nothing of the first one, “cache” and “reload”–although my son took me by my ears to see the Matrix Reload. The second one, that is going to the Option and changing the html mode, I did understand but failed to execute it. I went through all the sub-categories under the Option and found nothing that would allow me to change the html mode.
Can you, please, be more specific about the option alternative, and forgive me for my total lack of knowledge in the field which has made me look twice as stupid as I really am. Once again, thank you.
Cheers,
middleXeast -
Simple cure: Copy the text out of the post, paste it into a Notepad document, and DELETE the post entirely. Then make a new post and copy the text from the Notepad document into that. See if that works.
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I find this post to be helpful. When it comes to understanding things illustrations do the trick for me so maybe they will for you too http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
I do not use notepad. I write my posts in plain English into a free off-line editor called BlogDesk. Writing posts in BlogDesk in plaine English removes all the coding hassle for me and at the click of a few buttons I can format the text and then upload it directly to my blogs. http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm
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Had I followed Hölderlin’s suggestion, “We first go to the poets, and then to war,” which in this case, had I first consulted the strong poets of Word Press, namely timethief and raincoaster, my combat zone with the code would have been neutralized, turned into lawn or a beach, no sharks, no holes in the ozone, and no codes in the editing desk.
To both I am thankful.middleXeast
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