Problems with uploading my website correctly.?

Question

After uploading my website to my 1and1 FTP account, my website does not show correctly in the online version. However if I view it in local mode (through Dreamweaver's preview button), everything works the way it should. Any ideas?
here is the website http://blendermind.com/

Answer 1

You should not rely on Dreamweaver's preview AT ALL, especially if it's an older version. Always preview websites in your browser before uploading them.



Also, why don't you tell us what exactly appears differently...? Do we really have to ask...? Jesus.

And the black background of the movie at the top and the "open forums" image is much lighter than the black of the page; I suspect you didn't use #000 when creating those.

Answer 2

It has got a few errors in the html markup.



The biggest problem to start with is that it's missing a DTD - Document Type Definition - to tell browsers what version of HTML is is written in.



The best one to use at the present is xhtml, as it has best compatibility across different systems and browsers.



Run the page through the W3C Markup validation checker. That will pull out all the markup problems and is an excellent way of debugging html.



Link here:

http://validator.w3.org/



First, view the source of that page and grab the doctype header and html opening tag to use in your page - that will properly set it up as xhtml.



Once the site has that in, copy it's URL to the validator URL box & keep checking / updating until it's clear of errors and warnings.

Answer 3

One problem might be a missing