Calling all web geeks...

[Asmoday]

Okay, now I've seen some crap in my web days, but this is WEIRD....

I write the code for my pages (xhtml -- strict, and use css styling).

They are sitting on my HD at home. Bring them up in my browser, try some other browsers, everything looks great, I am pleased.

Sign up for sbc yahoo hosting. Get my name service pointed that direction.

Enter my url: my css is "reading", because I get a black background (which should happen, and the xhtml is "reading" because I get the proper title.

Problem is, that is all I get. An otherwise blank page.

Also, it says its downloading an image from some geocities address in the bottum of the browser.

WTF? It shouldn't be doing that...

So I turn my firewall off and re-upload the files to the server.

Same deal.

I have been looking over the code for hours, and I cannot seem to find a problem.

Anyone had an issue like this before? Any thoughts?

[aussieNickuss]

Are your elements (CSS,images etc) relatively named, or absolute? It could be trying to look for all the images and stuff on your local computer (e.g..might be looking for "file:///C:/Documents/..." not "http://www....." etc.).

I use PHP for building my sites and I use a variable to set my root directory which gets printed before each image URL or internal link. Then when I upload the site from my local server to the live one, I just switch the root directory over.

The problem is, quite often I forget to switch it and everything tries to look at my local server and I get a blank page.

[Asmoday]

Thanks for the help!

Turns out, the server was rejecting my pages because, ultimately, I didn't have any alt tags. I'll be sure and validate before I publish from now on.

JEEZ.

Woulda been nice if tech support had mentioned that...