# Blank index page :(

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [September 16, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468 "2004-09-16T15:52:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author: ![johnbruce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@johnbruce](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/johnbruce)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/1 "2004-09-16T15:52:48Z")

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Not sure if this is the right forum, but I need help prety fast!

Right, Alot of people keep telling me they just get a blank page when visting my site, I’ve no idea why this is happening. I’ve got an index.htm AND index.html uploaded but still some people can’t view the site?

Could you please check it out, if it works then great. If not could you give me some suggestions?

[http://www.thebig7.co.uk](http://www.thebig7.co.uk)

Thanks!

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/2 "2004-09-16T15:57:15Z")

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this is not the right forum and yes I cant see anything in that link 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/3 "2004-09-16T15:58:33Z")

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any ideas how to sort it? ☹

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/4 "2004-09-16T16:11:18Z")

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erm…i see nothing either…what is your servers default index e.g. index.htm???

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/5 "2004-09-16T16:22:02Z")

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not sure, but like i said i have both html and htm and ive never had a problem up untill now

could it by the HTML code?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/6 "2004-09-16T16:25:38Z")

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is it a document with a flash site on?? or is the index file pure html?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/7 "2004-09-16T16:29:48Z")

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its pure html, its just a spalsh page with a logo on it

\<HTML\>  
\<TITLE\>[TheBig7.co.uk](http://TheBig7.co.uk) - Forums and arcades  
\<BODY\>  
\<body background=“[http://www.thebig7.co.uk/images/backg.jpg](http://www.thebig7.co.uk/images/backg.jpg)”\>  
\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>\<BR\>  
\<center\>\<a href=“[http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum](http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum)”\>  
\<img border=“0” src=“[http://www.thebig7.co.uk/images/Logo.jpg](http://www.thebig7.co.uk/images/Logo.jpg)”\>\</center\>  
\</BODY\>  
\</HTML\>

thats all it is!

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/8 "2004-09-16T16:32:19Z")

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no idea. but why are there so many breaks in there, you ever heard of divs?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/9 "2004-09-16T16:34:08Z")

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Try closing your TITLE tag. And you have 2x BODY tags.  
Maybe that could have something to do with it??  
Hope that works 😉

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/10 "2004-09-17T11:08:19Z")

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ok i completly re-did the html to look like…

\<html\>  
\<head\>  
\<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”\>  
\<title\>Untitled Document\</title\>  
\<style type=“text/css”\>  
\<!–  
body {  
background-image: url(backg.jpg);  
}  
.style1 {  
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  
font-size: 10px;  
color: #0000CC;  
}  
–\>  
\</style\>\</head\>

\<body\>  
\<div align=“center”\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>

\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>\<img src=“Logo.jpg” width=“425” height=“119” border=“0” usemap="#Map"\>\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>&nbsp;\</p\>  
\<p\>  
\<map name=“Map”\>  
\<area shape=“rect” coords=“104,83,183,111” href=“[http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum](http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum)”\>

```
  &lt;area shape="rect" coords="226,83,309,110" href="http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum/arcade.php"&gt;
  &lt;area shape="rect" coords="1,1,425,84" href="http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum"&gt;
&lt;/map&gt;

```

\</p\>  
\</div\>  
\</body\>  
\</html\>

[http://www.thebig7.co.uk](http://www.thebig7.co.uk)

Thanks.

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blank-index-page/64468/11 "2004-09-17T11:18:25Z")

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Hey you got it working!  
One thing though, you really should try working with notepad a little. It will give you a better idea of html. Instead of all those untidy P tags, you can centre the logo with a table:

```auto
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-image: url(backg.jpg);
}
.style1 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #0000CC;
}
-->
</style></head>
 
<body>
<table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
	<td align="center">
<img src="Logo.jpg" width="425" height="119" border="0" usemap="#Map">
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="104,83,183,111" href="http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum">
<area shape="rect" coords="226,83,309,110" href="http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum/arcade.php">
<area shape="rect" coords="1,1,425,84" href="http://www.thebig7.co.uk/forum">
</map>
 
</body>
</html>

```
