Homestead's HTML Snippet Element is a wonderful way to reach out to the rest of the Web. But member beware: those HTML shoals are fraught with hazards. Here's one member's story:
Katie joined Homestead and managed to build a Web site that expressed her love of animals. She had everything in order: good, solid design (with no overlapping!), some arresting imported graphics, a number of links, and a Guestbook in which friends and visitors might leave their admiring remarks and best wishes.
After several months, however, Katie thought her site was missing that extra something . . .
She had heard that there were opportunities galore for making extra money with her Web site, so she took a good first step, and signed up for an affiliates' program with an online business she frequented. The program supplied her with several lines of HTML with which to construct and link an affiliate banner. Katie copied-and-pasted the code into the HTML Snippet Element, and waited breathlessly to see the results in her browser . . .
OUCH! That beautiful banner managed to scramble the contents of Katie's page quicker than a chimpanzee with a whisk. What happened?
Well . . . bad HTML, no doubt. Which leads us to the moral of Katie's story: If an outside affiliate banner you introduced to your Homestead page manages to skew its Elements, check the code! It might only be a matter of a missing quotation mark or angle bracket [< >]. If you don't feel equal to the task of looking over your code, check with the affiliate who issued it to you; failing that, our Support Team will be happy to help you out!
