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Real Estate Website Not Displaying Properly In Some Browsers

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Real Estate Agent with San Diego Real Estate Pros, SDRealtyPros.com CA BRE #01272720

I'm hoping there are some real estate webmasters, html, css, wordpress, seo, and other adept professionals out there who may be able to help.  My San Diego real estate website was created in WordPress.  The site that is not displaying properly in some web browsers.  The site is www.sdrealtypros.com. There are two coding issues (that I know of). 

First, in older IE browsers (IE6 and AOL), the main column on the left does not display the text and images until the page scrolls down past the bottom of the right-hand column.  I'm guessing that there is something about the code of the right-hand column which is preventing the left-hand (main) column from displaying contents in their correct position at the top of the page.

Second, I recently embedded the YouTube video in the main left-hand column.  I thought I'd used the correct text-wrapping code, and in Firefox the text does wrap around the right side of the embedded video.  But in Internet Explorer the text does not wrap, and it is centered below the video. Here are a couple of screenshots of this Problem #2:

This is what the site looks like in Firefox:

San diego real estate wordpress website using firefox

And this is what the site looks like in Internet Explorer:

San Diego homes real estate website using WordPress and Internet Explorer IE7

Any suggestions that you have for solving either of the two issues mentioned above would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! If you see any other problems with the site, I'd love to hear about those too.

THANK YOU!

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Geoffrey Schiering (J.D./M.B.A. Broker/Realtor).  Top San Diego Realtor since 1999. Specializing in Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos, Rancho Bernardo, La Jolla, Del Mar, and Solana Beach. Visit SDRealtyPros.com for houses, condos, and investment properties throughout San Diego County. Or Call 800-955-6463

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Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time

Interesting. I just checked in both my browsers and got the same results as you did. I had the same issue with the right sidebar on my WP blog and it was because I had copied and pasted a post from AR and the coding was too wide for the text box. I went in and git rid of the formatting and it corrected the error. Not sure what would cause the text wrap around problem in IE.

This post really illustrates how improtant it for us to cjheck out sites with different browers. Most consumers use IE. We have to remember that.

I wish I could help. Pop it over to"Brad Andersohn" <bandersohn@yahoo.com>, He may be able help

 

Jul 07, 2010 10:55 AM
Geoffrey Schiering
San Diego Real Estate Pros, SDRealtyPros.com - San Diego, CA
Top San Diego Realtor Since 1999!

Thanks Bryant.  I appreciate you taking time to look & respond.

Jul 08, 2010 06:10 AM
Rob Dalton
Waikoloa Vacation Rentals - Waikoloa, HI
Big Island Vacation Rental Guru

I don't know a ton about coding, but my guess would be that if you had it in tables you would not have this problem.  I have had a similar problem in the past and by using tables I was able to fix it.

Jul 15, 2010 06:22 AM
Mike Henderson
Your complete source for buying HUD homes - Littleton, CO
HUD Home Hub - 303-949-5848

Man something else to check on.  DOH!

Jul 17, 2010 08:03 PM
Mara Hawks
First Realty Auburn - Auburn, AL
Inactive-2012 REALTOR - Homes for Sale Auburn Real Estate, AL

I just began trying to create a Wordpress blog, and am now curious what "tables" are.  I wondered, too, about the width of your video or pics (exceeding 400-wide) that will cause it to skip down... Thanks for the post.

Jul 18, 2010 01:41 PM
Geoffrey Schiering
San Diego Real Estate Pros, SDRealtyPros.com - San Diego, CA
Top San Diego Realtor Since 1999!

Thanks for your comments.  Tables may be the solution... though ideally the formatting should all be handled by the css stylesheet.  Still looking into it.

Aug 09, 2010 04:53 AM