looks like you have a plugin called loginradius or something throwing errors…  hard to tell if thats the cause or not…

might be worth disabling the plugin at least to test…

I have disabled the plugin – nothing changed.

When you are logged in the bitmap in the footer is fine,

when you logged out the bitmap disappear…

I am trying to look at this at the moment but the site is throwing an error on all pages:

“The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must to be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol.”

It sounds complex.

I thought that all characters should be Unicode (UTF-8)

Don’t know where to look, but this is what I can see…

My browser: Unicode (UTF-8)

My cPanel: MySQL charset UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

The Page:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.7.2'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/resources/jscript/checkboxes/prettyCheckboxes.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.core.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.widget.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/forum/resources/jscript/msdropdown/msdropdown.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/forum/resources/jscript/sp-forum.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.mouse.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.resizable.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.draggable.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.button.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.position.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.dialog.min.js?ver=1.8.20'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/resources/jscript/sp-common.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/font-resize/resources/jscript/sp-fontresize.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/policy-doc/resources/jscript/sp-privacy-doc.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/modernizr.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/jquery.easing.1.3.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/jquery.masonry.min.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/jquery.quicksand.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/jquery.tweet.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bimup.co.uk/wp-content/themes/agtnoname/js/custom.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>

My Server variables and settings ???

Do you have

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/problem-with-post-edit-buttontml; charset=UTF-8" />

in the head section of the pages? That, as far as i know, is all that is required. This is not an SP issue however.

<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8" />

Well it should be the whole line as I pasted it.

Thank you.

I can see the problem, but I don’t know where to paste the string.

Sorry, I don’t want to take more of your time.

I found the place and the head coding is fine.

On the validation I have now only one error:

Line 84, Column 54: Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US" />

But the error is caused by qTranslate plugin.

I deactivated the plugin and the page is ‘passing’ the HTML5 validation test.

The footer is still unresolved.

I’m back to square one

Well to be honest I am stumped.

The body background graphic is defined as it should be and is loaded as it should be and as far as I can see there is nothing overriding it. SP creates NO ‘body’ CSS. In fact it creates no CSS outside of the #spMainContainer div so I am most puzzled.

Have you considered asking the theme author if they have any ideas?