Installed Sidepanel...nothing displays!

gnubler

I've just installed Sidepanel and followed the instructions in the readme file. I replaced the commented line with this image link:

<a href="http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com" target="_blank" title="Visit the Animal Rescue Site and help a furry friend today!><img src="http://www.lascrucesclicks.com/forums/pets/themes/vanilla/styles/default/btn_animalrescue.gif" alt="Animal Rescue Site" /></a>

When I view my forum pages, I see nothing in the sidebar - yet when I view source the code is there! Why isn't it displaying? Have I done something stupidly wrong that I'm totally missing?

Link to my forum, if you view source you can see the code from Sidepanel.
http://www.lascrucesclicks.com/forums/pets/categories.php

Please help!

sirlancelot

You're missing the closing quote for the title attribute.

Firefox's Source Viewer highlighted this error in red. If you don't have FF yet, it's a priceless addition to any webmaster's arsenal

Also, for the sake of all things good in this world, remove the target="_blank" attribute. (target="_blank" replacement)

gnubler

SOLVED.

Thanks a lot, sirlancelot. I figured it was a matter of operator error - and even worse is that I do use FF and I noticed the file path highlighted in red...but I didn't think anything of it. Duh.

Thanks also for the info about target="_blank". I try to follow web standards and I didn't realize it was on its way out. I don't care for the popup code, so I've just eliminated target all together. I wish there were a way to make a link open in a new tab rather than window, as most newer browsers support tabs.