people having problems viewing my website

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Can anyone help me please? I have a poetry site and some of my members in
America are saying they cannot view my site properly, they are saying a bulk
of the page is cut of when they view it, when I look at the page it looks
fine.This annoyance pops up from time to time.I am using IE version 7 and
Frontpage 2003. I tabled everything to make the page easier to view but as I
am new to all this I do not know if this was the right thing to do.Whoever
answers this can you please make the answer as easy as possible to follow as
I am learning about web sites. I would really like this sorted as it is
putting people off coming and joining my site.Thanks.Billy.

the website is... www.billmanson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
 
I hate to say it, but I think there will be some major problems here. First,
on the main page, looking at the code itself, it almost seems as if someone
copied and pasted part of the code over part of the code. A lot of the
header text has been duplicated and the page is missing the closing body and
html tags. If you look at the title of the page, it's actually HTML code
that has been converted to display in a web page, usually through a copy and
paste action. I've never seen an instance where FrontPage has done this on
its own.

Another problem, it looks like you used the FrontPage drawying tools.
Normally these are disabled in the preferences by default, but if the
browser settings in the page options are set to IE only the drawing tools
will be enabled. The drawing tools rely on vector markup language (VML),
which was a nice idea by the world wide web consortium, but in reality it
never took off. That being said, other browsers don't support it. It does
enable things like absolute positioning, but absolute positioning can be
troublesome even for those who have worked with it for a long time. It's
usually easiest, and most compatible, to actually create a giant table
broken into cells where you can use mechanisms such as cellpadding and
cellspacing to provide space between them in a fashion similar to what you
were going for.
 
It looks like you copied and pasted this site from Word or some other
program. There's a lot of VML on the pages. VML and VML Text boxes should
be avoided on web sites. They only display correctly
in Internet Explorer running on Windows, and then only if the browser is
opened to the same size (or bigger) as your design. See
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for other reasons
why VML (VML includes WordArt, textboxes, shapeart) should be avoided.
 
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