5. TEXT IS MISSING ON THE PAGE
Possible causes: this can happen for different reasons, but all of them have to do with closing tags.
Fixes:
1) When a closing table tag is missing, the entire table content might be missing, too. So don’t forget to close all your TABLE, TR and TD tags.
2) You forgot to close a comment and the browser “thinks” that the rest of the text has also been commented out. Make sure you close every comment that you open.
3) You forgot to close a quotation mark in a tag. For example, if you use quotes in a IMG SRC or A HREF tags, you must close them.
4) If you are using TEXTAREA in forms, make sure you close it with a /TEXTAREA tag.

6. VISITORS CAN’T SEE YOUR FANCY FONTS
Possible causes: There are only a handful of fonts that every computer user has installed. They are: Verdana, Arial, Courier, & Times New Roman. If you try to use some other font such as Impact or FreeStyle Script, and your visitors don’t have them installed, they will see your text in whatever font their browser is set to.
Fixes: do not use your fancy fonts. If you REALLY want your visitors to see your handsome fonts, then turn some of your text into graphics. Your graphics will be displayed the same on every computer, and your visitors will be able to see the fonts you meant for them to see. Keep in mind, however, that search engines can not crawl through graphics.

7. TOO MUCH HORIZONTAL SCROLLING REQUIRED
Possible causes: your width isn’t specified.
Fixes: put your text into a table and make it no more than 85% in width and centered. This way, regardless of how large or small their monitors are, your visitors will always see your text centered with no horizontal scrolling necessary.

8. THE TABLE IS WIDER THAN SPECIFIED
Possible causes: sometimes even you specify table width as 500 pixels, it might still stretch to all 700. There are two reasons for that: 1) You have a graphic in that table that is wider than the table itself. 2) You are using a long URL somewhere in the table text.
Fixes: Reduce the size of the graphic and the table will shrink as well. Or shorten the URL or remove it and you will see the table shrink to its specified size.

The next issue will address:
9. WEB PAGE DISPLAYS OLD LINKS AND IMAGES
10. BACKGROUND DOESN’T SHOW
11. CAN’T ACCESS YOUR HOME PAGE

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