It looks like I have to call on my smarter readers once again. If you have any technical skills, I’d appreciate some help as the website has been doing something bizarre. It seems that an iframe has spontaneously set itself on top of the post headlines. I haven’t changed the formatting of the website in any way, and I can’t locate the section of code that is causing this.
In Internet Explorer, the page looks like this:
Since I’ve done nothing to change the formatting of the website, I’m curious as to whether this is a piece of malicious code that was inserted somehow, or simply a formatting error. If anyone has technical skills and can lend a hand, please respond either in the comments to this post or e-mail me at: hello@scotthyoung.com
Update – I seem to have managed to disable the rogue code. It was a javascript tag. I’m still not sure how it got on the site, or what security measures I need to take to prevent this in the future. If someone knows a little more than I do about this, please e-mail me and I’ll send some of the details. I’d like to fix any holes as soon as possible.
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