[Tigratrus]

Originally Posted by canadianrodder

Tigratrus, thanks. when you say:
Specifically, run the page through the validator, what "page". This happens to be the forum home page...............Frank

So navigate to your forum home copy the url from your browser, and paste it into the W3C validator and click the button to tell it to validate.

If you haven't done this before, be aware that fixing the validation errors can be a major pain, it'll probably take a lot of digging though templates, and it's not something anyone can advise you on via a thread, way to many variables. If you're not comfortable using Firefox+Firebug and reading though the errors, you might want to see if you can find a coder that's willing to help.

If you have the basic background and/or are willing to spend some time on it, it's really just a matter of keeping at it till you find the source of the problems. In general you want to try and fix the earliest errors first, as you generally get cascade errors where a badly formed tag causes a whole series of errors below it. Ads are also a MAJOR source of validation errors, they often have & in them instead of the proper escape sequence of: & (don't forget the ; at the end either!). Good luck!

James and Susan