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My web designer left town. How do I get rid of the red, blue, white blank pages at the bottom of the site:
Any suggestions will be mappreciated
Les

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For — quick, practical diagnostic and repair steps that work even with older tools like Contribute 2.

First, identify the offending element with the browser inspector. Right‑click the colored band, choose Inspect/Inspect Element, then hover up the DOM tree until the highlighted box matches the band. The inspector shows which element carries the background or extra height and which CSS rules set its size, margin, padding or background-image.

Once located, try these targeted checks:

  1. Look for empty spacer elements (empty DIVs, spacer GIFs or stray <br> tags) and remove them.
  2. Check for an element with a fixed or percentage height that pushes past the content.
  3. Check for floats that aren’t cleared; if the footer sits under floating columns the wrapper can collapse and reveal a different background.
  4. Inspect body/html for background-color/image that might be showing through.

Common, low-risk fixes (apply after backing up files):

/* clear floating columns so footer sits correctly */
.footer { clear: both; }

/* prevent wrapper collapse */
.wrapper { overflow: hidden; }

/* if a container is too tall, remove explicit height or use min-height instead */
.container { height: auto; min-height: 0; }

Use Contribute only if it’s already connected to the site; otherwise download the page via FTP and edit a local copy. Always save a backup before changing templates or footers. As pointed out, Contribute can edit server-side pages if set up; as noted, direct file edits are another route — both are fine so long as a backup exists. After edits, test in multiple browsers and clear caches.

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Member Avatar for DaveSW

either:
1) get a new designer
2) if you're IT literate then you could ftp in and change it yourself. (I can probably tell you what to delete.)
3) Find someone you trust who's it literate, give them your ftp details, and get them to change it.

Member Avatar for Arizona Web

Hi Les, no offense but it looks like your web designer may have been run out of town! :lol:

Sorry, kidding. If you have contribute you can control a lot of elements on your site, but you have to set up a connection to the server first (if it already isn't). After that it is all drag and drop.

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In all honesty, I would suggest you contact a good web designer. We just finished the design for Jake Marsh, we did Ed Kirkland's last month, and we have done many other realty sites. You could get a really nice site for under a grand.

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Sorry Dani, had to do it!

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