Cannot insert hyperlinks or email links...

Hmm, sometimes you'll find these glitches. Let me ask you a question, are you trying to edit this in Internet Explorer?

Switch over to Firefox and see if you have the same problem, sometimes the browser is the quick fix. Internet Explorer has lots of problems.

Let me know if this works

Lori P.

Thanks for your fast reply Lori! Unfortunately it is still the same - I'm using a mac. Firefox and safari dont see it as a link - do you see it working as a link OK?

Why do you have it broken down in to so many div tags? My Firebug doesn't even pick it up as text instead it appears as an image within 20 or so different div tags. What did you use to create this?

That site is a mess - code-wise...

See it for yourself: [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://londonlocksmith.mobi/burglary.htm - W3C Markup Validator

Lol you are telling me it's a mess! Don't i know it! A well promoted designer warrior custom built this website for me - i was not happy, and i got banned from warrior forum for a few days because I complained all over his "for hire" thread! I am guessing its the awful coding that is buggering up any hyperlinks. I don't know what I am going to do because my client just wants a simple link here to his brochure and I cannot even do that. By the way anyone want the guy who designed this, so to know who to steer clear of pm me!

Wow, talk about DIV bloat. There's about 100 unnecessary nested DIVs. It's too hard to debug with all that, but I assume that something is being positioned over top of the links in such a way that its making links unclickable. The HTML for the links is correct though.

Thank you developdaly, I don't suppose there is anything I can do then if the site is too messed up to debug ;(

If you aren't comfortable stripping out the unnecessary HTML or can't afford to pay anyone else to do it -- not really.

This forum is not for negotiating job offers... do it in private, if you need to.

Blimey, don't get your knickers in a twist, I wasn't offering any work. Just wondered how much it would cost.

Well, Pixelgraffiti's useless coding strikes again. I found a nice chappie on fiverr to take a look at my hyperlink problem and he has discovered that its actually a style.css sheet problem. here's the culprit section:
#content {
background: url("images/content-wrapper-bg.png") repeat-x scroll 0 0 transparent;
clear: both;
min-height: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 830px;
z-index:-1;

the z index:-1 has made the content page go underneath in the pecking order or somethin'. However, if I remove the z index altogether or change the minus to a plus - then hoorah the hyperlinks work! But get this, the hyperlinks work but I lose one of my top header images the body-bg.png - which is found in the style sheet here:

#container {
width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
background: url(images/body-bg.png) no-repeat;
width: 1200px;

I've tried adding a z-index of its own with a plus number but the image body-bg.png still does not show up if I remove the z index from the container section or make that a plus figure in order to get the hyperlinks to function.

Does any stylesheet genius know why my body-bg.png disappears everytime I alter the container z-index? And does anyone have a solution?

Grateful for any comments.

Love
Sarah xx

After opening 40 Div tags or so I decided to give up opening more div tags. This site is a real mess in terms of coding and performance. It's very very poorly coded.

I did some performance testing on your and this is what I found :

Total HTTP request sent : 43 requests
Total Home Page size: 1.8 MB

According to stats your site is a bad state.

Z-Index Is normally used to overlap.

In your situation the guy have used images extensively. Jezzzz the site is a mess.

This is what I would suggest, get a new theme from themeforest for $8-10 (plain HTML/CSS) and then just edit the contents as per your need. Trust me you will save a lot of time and money.

Or if you need something from custom scratch then hit me up a PM. I can make you a cool and sexy looking design template in 2-3 hours.

Thanks uditg, I know the coding is terrible. I tried to get my money back from the original designer but got no-where. Even paypal would not refund. The thing is though I've already spent $360 for this mess and 3 weeks of content editing to get it looking half decent, compared to its dire original state. I cannot afford to spend anymore time and money on it.

I just need an answer to this hyperlink fiasco and I can then hopefully put it to bed.

Thanks Iuditg, have sent you a pm

Still not got this resolved ;( BTW pixelgraffiti is going by the name of pixelx now. Buyer beware!

You need to get in there, identify which <div> tags are completely useless, and rip them out. If the site was in a manageable state, we could try to help you debug with Firebug or a similar tool. However, in it's current state, it is just too messy to try to deal with. :\

I think your problem was solved. The z-index value made the link useless. You simply couldnt reach it! So why not just change it!

Brad dude, i could do that, and I did - only trouble is, one of my header images would disappear!!! It's so bizarre, I can either have hyperlinks and a big chunk of the website header background would go missing, or have a website that looks normal but no hyperlinks work in the content pages. It's hobson's choice. But thanks dude, I've got a tech guy warrior for hire going bald trying to figure it out

i'll glad to help u, send the file to my email, i'll have a look on it

Pinterest girlie, that is most kind of you. I have a tech guy looking at it now. If he cannot fix it I'll give you a shout. I'll pm you. Many thanks! Sarah

Don't worry about Istvan Sarah. He seems to go around on other peoples posts and correct things that didn't need correcting in the first place to run up a post count. Anyway, if you ned additional help, let me know. Coding is also going to be hard to get help with here anyway. Codingforums is a lot more helpful when it comes to problems like yours.