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Michael Dion
6,232 PointsVariance in site appearance after upload
Hey all, I've been playing around with some of the stuff I learned and I wanted to see if I could mimic a website I had seen using the fixed background attachment. It looks exactly how I'd expect it to on Chrome & Firefox when I view the files that are stored locally on my machine, but when I view the files on my host they get a bit screwy. Any ideas why this is? Thanks.
2 Answers

kyle rees
1,480 Pointshave you checked to make sure that all your external files like your javascript css images and what not are all pointint to the right places

James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou've linked to normalize.css
however the file doesn't appear to be accessible.
Make sure normalize.css
is in the same directory on your server as styles.css
. Also make sure normalize.css
has the same permissions as styles.css
.

Michael Dion
6,232 PointsI deleted it to see if it was causing the issues. Just restored it.
Michael Dion
6,232 PointsMichael Dion
6,232 PointsYes, all I have are a couple of images located in an "img" folder, and a couple of css documents stored in the same directory as the index file.
Accessing the site from the host with any browser adds what I'm assuming is a small margin on the top and left, and accessing it in firefox causes the main navigation to be aligned left instead of center...
I was using normalize.css, and thought that might be the source of the issue, so I removed it with no change.
Here's where the site is hosted http://visitnvbc.com/sandbox and I'll warn you the page itself isn't that carefully designed. It was just a quick test I threw together to see if I could mimic the background effects on http://fiveironfrenzy.com/site/