Good Morning from medieval York UK 
Shortly after publishing content for www.davidclick.com (as the above screen grab illustrates) a rogue capital A circumflex appeared in various spots. Ive looked at the HTML but i cant see anything that would explain its appearance via Safari Version 5.0.6 (5533.22.3) but not in firefox 9.0.1 
So my question is please: âHow can i get rid of itâ
Any insights welcome
It looks like a character-encoding issue. I donât know what editor youâve used, but I never quite trust them to save correctly in UTF-8, so I always use entity references for non-ASCII characters. In this case, you would need to replace the ÂŁ with [noparse]ÂŁ[/noparse].
Itâs also possible youâre viewing the site with a ârogueâ font from, say, FontYukle, that purports to be the ârealâ font but instead is a terrible knockoff. I once had a Helvetica knockoff that displayed letters in headings in Cyrillic lettering. Maddening. If it appears correctly on another machineâs Safari, then check your fonts for authenticity. :mad:
Absolutely.
Nope, itâs giving the Ă on Safari for me too (and Chrome), but works on Opera and IE8.
I donât know what that site is supposed to look like, but it appears to be one of the most BROKEN illegible designs Iâve seen in quite some time. Apart from the character encoding issues, youâve got fixed height design elements so all your content is blowing out of them, illegible color contrasts (black text on grey or red background, red text on grey), redundant/pointless use of title attributes, long URLâs for nothing, calling something an aside that isnât, pointless classes on multiple elements, multiple HTML tags, google specific tags when you didnât declare THEIR XML extension, your doctype saying you are in âtransitionâ from 1997 to 1998, scripting before the head or body tag are even open, pointless metaâs, inlined static scripting, paragraphs around non-paragraph elements, nonsensical heading orders⊠1.3 MEGABYES (including 345k of scripting) to deliver 1.5k of plaintext and seven content imagesâŠ
Youâve basically got a laundry list of how not to build a website here. My advice is throw it out and start over â thereâs nothing worth even TRYING to save here⊠Except maybe that red heart background â thatâs not too bad, just donât repeat it.
Though if you are relying on some sort of âtoolâ to design and âpublishâ it, <mythbusters>Well thereâs your problem</mythbusters>
Sounds like you use crappy editors then. Any good one will never have any trouble saving as UTF-8.
I assume it only just happen near U+00A3, i.e. the ÂŁ symbols, if so it looks like a mismatch of encoding to UTF-8.
Jason, whatâs that company that advertises a program you can buy that will Build You a Terrific WebSite in 30 Minutes and Guarantee You Instant Business Success, Drive Away Pimples, and Attract SuperModels? They have a TV commercial featuring someoneâs ice cream store that gets #1 ranking on teh Goggle within moments of uploading. Maybe that program can help the OP and the rest of us benighted souls. 
If there was such a thing, it wouldnât be called work anymore, it would be called âHappy Happy Fun Timeâ
Unfortunately, thereâs a reason itâs called work â and the less you do, the more your result sucks. As a rule of thumb most ALL of the âweb development toolsâ that allegedly make life âeasierâ tend to defecate all over the work⊠leading nubes into THINKING they can design and deploy a website, and further promoting the âLets get it now, NOW, NOW!!! Who cares what it costs us in the futureâ mentality; which is why the majority of people are bankrupted on credit and donât even realize it.
Had someone recently ask me about their site built in that⊠my responseâŠ
FONT tags? REALLY? REALLY?!? reallyâŠ
Makes money Web sites in FrontPage I do, yesss precious lolz.
Theyâre not asking you or me, Jason. This is aimed at the doofus market, or more generously, the low-information person/org/business who needs a site and, well, thatâs all they know. It isnât quite as bad as do-it-yourself liver surgery, but itâs almost as clueless.
Not saying that folks who need a site Must Hire a Pro, just saying that if youâre going to design and construct a site, itâs like designing and constructing a treehouse â youâd better learn something about the task at hand or youâre likely to fall on your rumpus.
Ok kean let me say to your post⊠this site has âsuccessfullyâ delivered wedding bookings to me for the last 5years and I dont want anymore bookings so whilst it doesnt get your golden globe for semantic markup with respect you are over egging the situation.
Thanks Stevie for answering my question:
Death Sadow you need illumination: Buts its number 5 for wedding photographer york from no ranking three years ago to page 1 and benefits my business. So whilst your techno diatribe sounds quite impressive your recommendation to scrap the whole thing is foolhardy & reckless, I really hope you are not giving small business owners site advice as you jump in without garnering facts!
You know, Iâm pretty used to people who know NOTHING about HTML/CSS getting their panties in a wad when I post the truth⊠But ânot garnering factsâ â EXCUSE ME?
You want facts? FINE. Your site uses color combinations illegible to a large swath of the population⊠on top of a disastrously broken layout. Honestly, Iâd applaud the attempt at using dynamic fonts on the page, if the layout was designed to scale with them; but what you have is the typical âwhat do you mean %/em or even PT automatically enlarges for large font usersââŠ
Here is EXACTLY what I saw, without using any extra zoom features on my system apart from the OS setting.
http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/zygoma/broken.jpg
This is caused by my using the accessibility â120 dpiâ windows setting, and your using %/em fonts in a layout designed for a fixed HEIGHT. That âauto enlargementâ is the entire REASON for using %/em fonts â but the layout you put them into isnât designed to handle it.
You want FACTS, read the WCAG about color contrasts! Are you HONESTLY telling me you find that large red text in your content column LEGIBLE? The black text beneath it SAME? Eyesore at best, illegible at worst. Red on black only has a 33% contrast difference, red on a sum of that gray ends up LESS than that.
Honestly, Iâm SHOCKED youâre listed in google at all - since the keyword stuffing gibberish below the picture break in that same area should be getting you slapped down for⊠well, keyword stuffing⊠though at least itâs not content cloaked, likely WHY youâve not set off the radar.
From an accessibility standpoint your heading orders are GIBBERISH. Is âWeather resistantâ a subsection of âwedding photography testimonialâ? Is âWedding photography pricesâ a subsection of âweather resistantâ?!? Of course not, so why are you saying they are with lower-order headings? (H3,H4,H5)
the page comes in at 1.3 MEGABYTES â meaning most likely a lot of people donât even bother waiting for it to finish loading; on a page that to be frank even WITH the fancy pics likely doesnât need to exceed 256k âas isâ.
Those ARE facts⊠that I âgarneredâ â and if youâre going to put your head in the sand like an ostrich about it â lah-lah-lah like the Vancome Lady⊠Oh well. Stay in 1997.
@deathshadow60; You are missing all the poetry and symbolism here. This is a site about weddings and marriage! 
BTW:
Donât give me that search engine snake oil. I just checked google.com, and itâs NOT on page one. Ok, so itâs a UK site? google.co.uk then⊠Nope, not page one there⊠or page two⊠hey look, itâs at the top of page [b]THREE[/b].
⊠and seriously, whatâs the bounce rate? With a 40 second page load from a 22mbps connection, broken layout and illegible color contrasts, I bet itâs pretty high.
Letâs keep this thread civil, everyone.
Dankeschön!
Honestly, Iâm SHOCKED youâre listed in google at all - since the keyword stuffing gibberish below the picture break in that same area should be getting you slapped down for⊠well, keyword stuffing⊠though at least itâs not content cloaked, likely WHY youâve not set off the radar.
Itâs gone from something Google used to actually do, to plain fear-mongering: theyâre busier closing off .cc domains than caring if someone has a long list of random nonsense words somewhere on their page. I have a sometimes-client whose site I would LOVE to remove about half of the âcontentâ⊠but because his product is popular, heâs worried that removing the garbage would somehow hurt his rankings, even though according to Googleâs own rules that junk could not have possibly helped his rankings. His product and customer service did. People tell each other that you can get good stuff there. Social reputation contributes to rankings.
Obviously this is happening with Zygomaâs site: the junk is just being ignored and does not affect rankings, but if his site is drawing in customers then he probably has good word-of-mouth going on, and a decent reputation for his service. And frankly, the amount of junk the average person sees on web pages while they randomly surf, it likely doesnât turn people away here. Esp if they heard from a friend âhey this guy did so-and-soâs weddingâ.