Site is acting strange: color sections and paragraph fonts

Hey Rikard,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

For example, attached are screenshots of what shows on the “live” website. It seems to just be the About page and Work With Me pages that are being weird. Also attached are pictures of what these pages actually look like from the admin side.

It seems like every time I add a “color section” from the layout elements, things stop functioning properly, start showing bold fonts where there are no bold fonts, start showing blank pages when they’re full of content.

I don’t have a screenshot of this part, but when I’d add a “color section” and put just one text box element inside (for instance, if I wanted the title of a section to be in the color section and the rest of the paragraph to be outside the color section), it suddenly would turn EVERYTHING on the page below that color section into the dark, alternate background with all sorts of formatting screwing up. Again, I don’t have a screenshot because I’m afraid to touch anything on the site right now.

Another quirk is that any animation for pictures is not working. I had to take off all animations in order to make the pictures show up on the site.

I have no idea why it’s being so odd.

Would love your insight. Thanks!

(how do I attach my screen shots for you?)

Ok, so I uploaded several screenshots of what the About and Work With Me pages look like within SECONDS of refreshing the page. It’ll look fine, I don’t touch anything, simply hit “view page” or refresh on the browser, and suddenly it looks like these screenshots. I’ve turned off all plugins. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31928221/About%20Page.png

I will say, this is the first time movement came back – the icons never moved before. I thought it was strange that they were muted, but apparently the movement just wasn’t able to work properly, so I suppose I’ll find out which plugin is responsible for that as I turn them back on one at a time.

But what’s troubling is that if I go from my page as I left it, then hit Preview, then come back – sometimes it actually takes all the elements out from the back end too and I have to restore an earlier version.

It’s freakin’ me out – I need to get this project finished and over to the client.

Thanks for your help!

Hey Elliott and Rikard,

I went through the Public Dropbox folder and renamed the shots so you can see. https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public

There are 2 pictures labeled:
-How the About page SHOULD look
-How the Work With Me page SHOULD look

Then there examples of how they actually end up looking on the live site:
-Example of what happens on the About page (literally nothing shows up even though there are plenty of blocks of content on the back end. This one seems to have resolved itself? Knock on wood. It hasn’t acted up for a week or so)
-Example of what happens on the Work With Me page (just the first row that contains a header and a picture shows up, then the footer despite there being content)

Refresh the page again and you’ll get any number of the example screen shots in the folder:
-Example 2: it shows the first 3 rows, then nothing except the footer
-Example 3: the fonts all appear to be bold even though they’re not in the backend.
-Example 4: the full-width menu stacks the 2 items on top of each other, instead of horizontally, the icons stay muted instead of animating and becoming brighter and bigger, plus the fonts are bolded within the icon list, even though they shouldn’t be.

Does this make more sense as to what I’m talking about? Sorry, I know it’s frustrating trying to decode what a non-tech person is talking about when things aren’t working.

It seems to be the “color sections” that are wreaking havoc. I even tried to rebuild the Work With Me page, but the color sections are still acting up and altering any of the content I put inside them.

Thanks for your help, guys.