This morning I opened up my blog and noticed that the layout was out of whack. The right sidebar wasn't where it was supposed to be; instead it was at the bottom of the first page of posts.
I poked around in the Layout and Theme sections, but when I didn't have any luck fixing the problem I started searching through the Blogger Help posts. It didn't take long for me to find the answer to my issue. A Platinum Product Expert by the name of DarkUFO suggested the problem was some bad HTML code in one of my posts.
The solution was to open the posts up one at at time from the Dashboard and see if the sidebar was in the correct place. When I found the one where the issue started I could look at the HTML code to find the error.
That was easier said than done. Last year when I was forced to change to the New Blogger, one of the things I hated the most was that they switched to 'real' HTML. It was harder to figure out because there were no line breaks. However, I wanted to make sure things looked tidy on my blog so I did what I had to.
Fortunately, the issue wasn't too far down the list of posts. When I found it I selected and cut the text from the Compose page. Next I clicked over to the HTML view and removed what was left (which I assumed was the 'bad' code). I pasted the cut text in, then went back to Compose to put in paragraph breaks.
Now things are back to normal in my tiny corner of the internet universe.
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I've had to go to html so many times, to look for and fix a problem showing up in compose view, that I just go ahead and do everything in html.
ReplyDeleteWow! You go!
DeleteGood work Kathy!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteWow! I'm impressed. I would never have been able to figure that out. I don't understand the html thing at all.
ReplyDeleteI probably made myself sound more knowledgeable than I actually am :-)
DeleteGlad you figured it out. I can wrote but I can't figure out techno stuff. My hubby knows when I shout, "Honey" it's a honey do computer fix. LOL
ReplyDeleteIn my case I have to reach out to one of two of the kids who know computer stuff. Now that they're out of the house I try to figure out things by myself before I bother them.
DeleteIt was such a mess when they switched to the new blogger. I learned HTML teaching students. The good old days!
ReplyDeleteI thought I had pretty much figured out all the ins and outs of the new Blogger. Then something like this happened.
DeleteI noticed the change in layout and figured Blogger had made some changes. I just scrolled until I found your sidebar (bottom of the heap bar) and checked the blogs you follow. You make it easy for me to pick up the blogs I enjoy reading.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your flexibility and patience.
DeleteYou are braver and better than me. I try to fix it by hitting the computer with a hammer. It never solves the problem!
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Hammers are good for lots of things. Fixing equipment isn't one of them.
DeleteThat's great you figured that out on your own.
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