Sometimes my site is plain text, all web formatting gone

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  kafafootball · Member · Mar 25, 2008 at 11:20 am

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  Over the last few days, sometimes when I go to my site, in Firefox and Explorer, the pages are all like plain text and vertical. All the web-formatting is gone. Then a bit later it is back to normal. It seems to happen more often when I log in as admin than when I try visiting without logging in. Anyone had the same?

  Could it be because i have too much on the site or something?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 25, 2008 at 11:40 am

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  Usually that happens because the servers hosting your theme images have a problem connecting with your computer, so if you’re behind an internet slowdown like the BellCanada one we had awhile ago, this can happen. Your site looks okay to me, and not too busy.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Mar 25, 2008 at 11:46 am

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  Does this show a dozen lines of CSS code, or an error message? – https://s-ssl.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/h4/global.css

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  kafafootball · Member · Mar 25, 2008 at 3:08 pm

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  Hi, that link shows a dozen lines of what I guess is CSS code. What does that mean?

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  isadora · Member · Mar 25, 2008 at 5:25 pm

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  It means you can reach the global css, so the cause must be somewhere else.

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  kafafootball · Member · Mar 25, 2008 at 10:23 pm

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  I haven’t heard of any other visitors having the problem, but it has happened to me from home.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Mar 25, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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  kafafootball: try that link next time you notice the problem. If you see an error message it means something is preventing you from reaching the servers that deliver CSS stylesheets for WordPress.com blogs.

  Usually it’s caused by a problem on your computer or at your ISP. If you post the exact error message back here we might be able to narrow it down a bit more.

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  kafafootball · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 12:26 am

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  Thanks. I had the problem a couple of times this evening, but most it was fine, this time when editing comments. Anyway, what I saw at the link was:

  img.latex { vertical-align: middle; border: none; }

  form.contact-form { width: 100%; text-align: left; }
  form.contact-form textarea { width: 96%; }
  form.contact-form label { float: none; display: inline; }
  .form-error, form.contact-form p label.form-error { color: maroon; }

  .video-player { margin: auto; padding: 5px; text-align:center; border: 0px;}
  .wpvidavee_title { text-align:left; font-weight:bold; font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:10px; line-height:12px; padding: 2px 5px; }
  .wpvidavee_footer { text-align:right; font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:9px; line-height:11px; padding: 2px 5px; }
  .wpvidavee_footer a { text-decoration: none; }
  .wpvidavee_p { color: red; }

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  tellyworth · Staff · Mar 27, 2008 at 2:56 am

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  That’s normal. It sounds like there might be some kind of intermittent DNS issue on your PC or at your ISP.

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  kafafootball · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 11:01 am

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  Ok, thanks. Is there anything I can do?