Bought myself an HTML coding book... "Teach Yourself Visually...HTML" as I am a visual learner, this should help a bit more...
Issue 1: I've spent ages on a particular code...all appears hunkey dorey in preview mode, even after I save the changes... But, when I go to "View" mode, where one sees the changes in the "real world" the changes to the template do not appear.
Issue 2: when viewed in Source View, from a fresh browser window, why is some of the code in different colours... e.g. the last bit of coding I did pops up in green [invisible], the colour of "stuff" that is not supposed to appear, as would be the case in <!---text---> ...it's near the bottom... I have no code like that beginning or ending my effort...as you can see below...
[Return Edit: blue is o.k., normal; red is not o.k., abnormal; and green does not appear in browser mode.]
<!----just mucking about below here------>
<br /><br <a href="http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://www.drybonesproject.com/newarchive/ShulSitAnm3.gif" align = "center" />
<a href="http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/"><!img src="http://www.drybonesproject.com/blog/JwLogo3.gif" align = "center" />
<a href="http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/">"The Dry Bones Blog"</a>
<br <em><b>THE SATIRICAL SIDE OF BEING JEWISH IN THE MIDDLE EAST</b><br />
<p><em><u> Monday to Friday </u><br />
<em> The stories behind the cartoons<br />
<em> A "new cartoon" every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday<br />
<em> And "golden oldies" every Tuesday and Thursday</em></b></p>
<!----just mucking about above here------>
[Return Edit: remove <!---> from before and after code...why? beats me, but it worked.]
Issue 3: I have also been receiving excellent help from "Valacar" who is part of the W3 Consortium at
The W3C Markup Validation Service When I pop the code into their validator it shows three errors that may be so, but are not stopping the code from being "expressed" in the preview mode...
[Return Edit: apparently blogspot.com is using a forgivable code for their templates...i.e., if you make errors while playing in the sand box, it covers over and corrects your mistakes, with the next logical solution...darn clever!]
What do you think the problem might be with it not appearing in its final format on the actual site at
MAD-LAB 1 ?
The only anomolie I can find is the [!] in <!img . I removed it [!] and the whole thing when wonkey! So, I put it back... It should not be there...very confusing!
EDIT: O.k., I've just gone back and deleted the <!----text------> commands...and everything now works. But there still remains the issue of why? Stuff between the <! and the > is not suppose to appear, yes, I know, but my code was not between those symbols...and yet the browser interpreted them as being so...