EW 4: J Query Slider Pictures Do Not Show Up On IE

Question

Pictures in J Query Slider work fine on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Doesn't work on Internet Explorer. URL: http://www.luxuryhomesspokane.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am new to EW and the forum. Just designing my own web site. Please keep replies simple so a 67 year old, non-geek can understand it. I mean geek in a good way. Thanks.

Answer 1

Try removing the spaces in your folder name:
src="JS Java Script/jquery.js"></
by replacing them with dashes JS-Java-Script

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Answer 2

Thanks for your quick reply. Made the change but it still doesn't work.

Answer 3

Please delete your other post on the same topic.  I assume the forum acted up or you did that unintentionally, but splitting replies between two threads makes a mess of things.

Answer 4

Please DO NOT create multiple threads for the same question. Doing so is rude and inconsiderate, and causes someone else's question to be pushed off of the first page of topics. Please go to your other thread and delete it, NOW, before someone responds, after which it cannot be deleted. Thank you.

cheers,
scott

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Answer 5

Scott,

Don't assume deliberate double posting in this forum.  "Unexpected error" - try again is a common reason for it.

Answer 6

This is really a jquery question, not an EW question.

Try putting just the slider on a page, nothing else: does it work in IE?

Try changing the image names to be sensible, not long comma and space separated names: no commas, no spaces.  Does that work in IE?

Answer 7

Well, there are a LOT of errors on that page, starting with a typo in the DOCTYPE--<!DOCTYPYE HTML>--which means that there is NO valid DOCTYPE. So the browsers are thrown into Quirks mode right off the bat, and all bets are off as to how it will display.

• You're missing closing tags on many items.
• You have reused the same DIV ID (wrapper), which is illegal.
• Your entire page is laid out with tables (deprecated by the web standards committee and not parsed properly by search engines), yet inside the table cells are DIVs. Why? There's no reason for a DIV in a table cell--there's nothing you can do to the DIV's content that you can't do to the contents of a regular cell.
• Semantic markup is used incorrectly.
• The body text is difficult to read. It's centered--bad idea. The lines are very long, with small text spaced too close vertically.
• The page title is just weird: Luxury, Waterfront, Homes, Home, For Sale, Spokane (Eastern) Washington, and is too long to be displayed properly in search engine results. What's with all the commas?

And two issues that are not of a technical nature, but struck me as odd...

• Virtually all of the content of that page is below the fold--way down on the page, out of site of the visitor. That violates basic advertising practices. Have you looked at other websites to see what modern sites look like? That layout doesn't work for a web page.
• Seriously--black? When was the last time you saw a website with a black background? There's a reason for that.

And, finally, many of the most active participants in this forum are older than you, so using your age as an excuse isn't going to get you any sympathy. Just sayin'

You're in the big leagues now. You are using a professional-level website design tool that REQUIRES a knowledge of HTML and CSS and whatever else you throw in the mix (jQuery, etc.). Microsoft is clear about this (see the Prerequisites link in the Forum FAQ, above). If you can't cut it, hire someone who can build a proper, valid, standards-compliant website.

Your business is at stake, and this site is serving you badly. There is a very real reason why people get paid to do design websites; they know how to build a site correctly so that it works.

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Answer 8

Scott,

Don't assume deliberate double posting in this forum.  "Unexpected error" - try again is a common reason for it.

Might be, except that the posts were quite some time apart, and worded differently. That hardly speaks to an accidental reposting of the same message.

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Answer 9

What in the world is all of that garbage at the bottom of the page? The tiny print, some underlined, some not, in serif font (bad idea for body text online), with variable line-height, and apparently touting everything from Spokane to Ft. Myers, from Maine to Arizona, from India(!) to London(!)? What in the world is that supposed to contribute to the purpose of this site?

Are you aware that Google might see this as keyword stuffing, an attempt to game the search algorithms? They are usually very much unamused by such tactics, and may reward you by delisting your site. You might want to rethink whatever made you decide to include that crap. Seriously.

I thought that there was an explicit reference to this practice at Google, so I looked it up. For more information, see Google's opinion of these link schemes here: 

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

Read the entire page, and you'll see that those footers full of random real estate links, spanning the globe, fail Google's criteria on many counts. You're shooting yourself in the foot using them. Whoever told you to do that gave you very bad advice!

Look, you clearly deal in very high-end properties, and no doubt make a nickel or two off your commissions. I would sincerely advise you to hire a competent Web professional to rebuild your site, using modern standards and design principles, and applying approved, effective SEO principles to increase traffic to your site. You could have them set it up as a blog or CMS, and pay a little extra for training in how to update and maintain it yourself going forward. You're doing yourself no favors by putting up that amateurish, ugly site you have now. Your Web presence reflects on your credibility, and what you have right now is certainly not helping yours, and in your business, credibility is everything. Think about it...

cheers,
scott

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Answer 10

"That hardly speaks to an accidental reposting of the same message."

It could if the forum did what it has done to people in the past: given an error, but actually posted, with the post not showing up for a while.  People can end up trying again.  There is no reason to assume the worst without asking.

(Hitting "Submit" again, in response to the completely consistent "Unexpected Error" I've been getting on every post for several days!)

Answer 11

Scott:

My guess is that that is his old site. He was working on some fixes earlier, so he may have taken the new one down. What I see up now is clearly worse than the new one and the link stuffing (learn backgammon, trips to Nepal, baby clothing, etc.) is just weird (and Google-antagonistic). Plus, with 53 auto-styles it looks like he was experimenting.

And, selling megabux houses using an AOL e-mail address? Yikes! That's a bad image right there.

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Answer 12

Completely unrelated to the question at hand (sorry), but this thread caught my attention. Since I live in the wilds of NE Washington, I couldn't help but notice the Spokane address. It was surprising to look at the site and see a listing (Black Beach Resort) less than a mile from my house in the beautiful Republic area. Of course, I'm up in the decidedly low-cost hills surrounding Curlew Lake, but I can still see the lake from the back of my property. Just an interesting small-world moment for me, since almost nobody has even heard of Republic, let alone shown up on this forum.

Jim

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