Help! This site is a mess!

[meghan1122]

I am relatively new to web design. I did one other site and everything was seamless, but this one is a huge disaster.

I tested it on my computer and my laptop, in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and it worked fine. I checked it today on my work computer and it's a disaster.

I am guessing the monitor size has something to do with it? Also, it will not show up on google, even when i type in my web addess directly into google, it still doesn't come up.

If anyone is willing to look at my site and tell me what i am doing wrong, i will be forever indebted to you.

www.southendgardens.com

Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[conor]

Google usually takes about three weeks to a month to index your site, depending on the amount of links to your site. Three things that will cotribute to getting your site indexed are:
1. Incoming links.
2. Outgoing links.
3. Meta Tags.

I am looking at the website in FF3 Linux and it looks fine to me. What browser were you looking at it through in work?

 

[meghan1122]

Thanks for the google info!

My work computer runs Internet explorer 7. It's all choppy and the left hand navigation bar doesnt fit completely on the screen on this one. The font i used (copperplate gothic light) doesnt show up on this browser either

 

[conor]

Hmm well I don't actually have an installation of IE handy at the moment but I will check it out later for you.

As for the font. You can never be sure that every machine will have your font installed. There is an easy work around. Pick two or three fonts that look quite similar and then use the second one as a backup. For example in your CSS body tag you could put Arial as primary and Verdana as secondary. You can add as many fonts as you want I think:

body{
    font:12px Arial,Verdana;
}

 

[meghan1122]

Great! thanks so much for all your help