I need help, slideshow swallowed everything up!

[nycwatershots1]

I can't figure out how to get everything back to individual status, the bio box encompasses everything. My gallery thumbnails are gone and I can't just click on the "bio edit" box.. annymore....the galleries titile dissappears and popular photos .....my footer is inside with everything else, it used to be outside the grey area, google ads as well...the text is all bunched....cant figure it out...im trying to have somewhat of a welcome page along side the slideshow like jrinaldiphotography.com (http://www.jrinaldiphotography.com). Can anyone help. My website nycwatershots (http://www.nycwatershots.com)

[jfriend]

The issue is that you have all sorts of invalid HTML in your bio. Every single tag in your BIO needs a start and end tag. For every <div>, you must have one and only one </div> tag. Same for <span></span> and <strong></strong>. The only tag you should be using that doesn't have this rule is <br> for a newline.

The main issue causing your problems are a whole bunch of <div> tags with no </div> tags to match them. You must clean this up to restore your site. While you're in there you should fix all the other tags that don't have proper matching start and end tags.

For now, you can go into your control panel to get to your bio to fix it:

http://jfriend.smugmug.com/photos/426370616_eojFX-X2.jpg

[nycwatershots1]

okay better, but my gallery thumbs are still MIA.

[jfriend]

okay better, but my gallery thumbs are still MIA.

You haven't finished matching up <div> tags with </div> tags in your bio. Because you have an open <div> tag with no closing </div> tag, the page thinks that your galleries box is still in the bioBox so this line of your CSS is hiding the gallery thumbs. It wouldn't be affecting the gallery thumbs at all if you can fully fix your HTML to have matching <div> and </div> tags.

This line of your CSS is hiding the gallery thumbs because of your HTML errors:

#bioBox .photo {display: none;
}

Fix the HTML errors and this problem will go away. To start with, simply count the number of <div> tags you have and </div> tags you have in your bio. The number of each must be the same.

Also, in your CSS, you have this that should be removed because it's not CSS and is causing an error:

<b>Bolded sentence.</b>

[nycwatershots1]

beautiful, you are the man, thank you soo much!...just a quick note to others, im a beginner, so the <div> tag i missed was actually a <div id => tag so just look out for them.

can you help some more?

[jfriend]

beautiful, you are the man, thank you soo much!...just a quick note to others, im a beginner, so the <div> tag i missed was actually a <div id => tag so just look out for them.

can you help some more? What else do you need help with? I didn't understand the other things you mentioned in your first post.

[nycwatershots1]

I think you covered all of the things i screwed up, but I was looking a that jrinaldi website and liked how he had the text along side his slideshow. Also how can i get rid of the grey backround and make it all black, almost transparent or make the whole homepage wider, thats really what i want to do!

[jfriend]

I think you covered all of the things i screwed up, but I was looking a that jrinaldi website and liked how he had the text along side his slideshow. Also how can i get rid of the grey backround and make it all black, almost transparent or make the whole homepage wider, thats really what i want to do! If you want an all black homepage, I'd suggest you just try out the different themes available in the Themes button on the home page. It's easiest to start with a theme and then customize only if the theme doesn't get you all the way to what you want.