There has been a problem with weird text lettering for the last few months. We're waiting for Homestead/web.com to post a solution. One customer claimed that eliminating punctuation between letters solved his problem. Homestead/web.com hasn't posted a solution. Try this and let us know if it works for you.
"Edit the text box, remove excess spaces between letters and words, leaving no unnecessary punctuation."

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8.27.24: greg1410 has offered this solution: "
Edit the text box, remove excess space between letters, and the words, and leave no space.

@russell5607​ Thanks. With your explanation, I first solved by removing problem spaces, which are the ones next to: links or punctuation or multiple spaces. Then I put them back in in white text on white background. The extra A also turns white, so I get wide spaces. I could change to white hyphen, but prefer space.

Review: ADDING IMAGES SB+:
Here is an article to assist with uploading images to Sitebuilder. https://community.homestead.com/homestead/topics/sitebuilder-plus-add-an-image
Select insert > image. If you add a photo gallery, it will auto thumbnail the image(s)
You can hold down the shift key and click on multiple images to upload more than one image at a time.

Use the properties editor to arrange and space images.

@ann4926​ Use the properties editor to space your images. You can use the lunapic ap to size images before uploading: https://www3.lunapic.com/editor/.

Regarding weird characters, review; https://community.homestead.com/conversations/troubleshooting/strange-characters-on-websites/66cf75a9d27af67b2fab2146?commentId=66cf75f63755ac68ad52650e&replyId=66cf833bbea60f3f0ade00ff

https://community.homestead.com/conversations/html-snippets/more-letter-a-insanity-check-this-out/66cb26e4bea60f3f0add09ea 

READ HERE

I've done some work on trying to fix the strange characters that showed up in one of my HS websites and here's a quick, partial fix for now.

The coding issue with HS back-end is messing up when formatting changes are added to text. So when I retyped the text and made some text bold or added a color, the odd characters came back. 

So just copy and paste all your text into a note app like OneNote where the formatting is removed. Or paste into MS Word and remove the formatting. Then paste it back into your text box. If the problem comes back, you might have to delete the text box and create a new one. You won't be able to format the text within a paragraph, but you can format an entire paragraph or headline as long as you have a hard return before and after the text. It looks like it's the transition from one format to another within a paragraph that is causing the issue.

NOTE: before you make changes to your text take a screen shot of your web pages so you'll know how to make the formatting edits after HS fixes this issue. Or just take photos of the pages with your smart phone for future reference.

Thank you, I posted a similar option using cut and paste, BUT realize this is NOT a fix, merely a work around....IF someone has the time to do this. If a website has a few pages, this is an option, BUT if many pages are involved, it is a true nightmare. 

We need a complete fix. A writing back of the code so the old cold works.

To put this in perspective for you, for just my "instance" go here to my homepage, then poke around at the links. It won't take long to discover my problem. I really doubt there are many using HS that have the size of my sites. YOu go there, then you tell me what you think. It has taken me hours in the last days, to get just a half dozen pages to look right/good.     Thanks, Greg

https://www.candgcoins.com/ 

I have found that if I publish and preview the site appears fine. But when I pull the site up on a different browser is where the strange characters show up. Please look into this if you can.

You are not the only account suffering from this problem. Call support and ask them if they have a solution. Let us know what you find out.

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The problem is, Homestead stopped updating their Web Builder Plus, to be phased out. Those characters are from the "tabs" and some "spaces" in your words. If you remove those tabs to start with, many of those issues will go away. Homestead told me this morning to copy out the text, delete the text box, then make a new text box and copy back in, from the outside source, the desired text. Save, Publish and see where you stand. They suggested that we create new sites, using their latest Web Builder software.

What's the website address?

Have you called support?

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Trying to find support is nearly non-exisitent. I will try that number right away. This particular site is a simple, non-business, "parkridgeatleecreek.org"

    I've verified that now its also showing the messed up characters being put in there via IOS/Safari too. So this issue is coming from Homestead and/or the hosting service they use since this is where the hosting was signed up for.

@parkridgepoa6169​ http://www.parkridgeatleecreek.org/

Have you tried deleting the corrupted copy and entering new copy?

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I am having the same issue.  I erased all the pages and started again.  All are fixed but one.  I can't seem to get rid of it.

@pamela2035​ Ditch that page. It's corrupted. Start a new page, copy and paste from your website.

The problem is, Homestead stopped updating their Web Builder Plus, to be phased out. Those characters are from the "tabs" and some "spaces" in your words. If you remove those tabs to start with, many of those issues will go away. Homestead told me this morning to copy out the text, delete the text box, then make a new text box and copy back in, from the outside source, the desired text. Save, Publish and see where you stand. They suggested that we create new sites, using their latest Web Builder software.

There are many reports like yours.

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The problem is, Homestead stopped updating their Web Builder Plus, to be phased out. Those characters are from the "tabs" and some "spaces" in your words. If you remove those tabs to start with, many of those issues will go away. Homestead told me this morning to copy out the text, delete the text box, then make a new text box and copy back in, from the outside source, the desired text. Save, Publish and see where you stand. They suggested that we create new sites, using their latest Web Builder software.

This has been an ongoing issue all year. Has anyone switched from Homestead to Go Daddy and had success. I really don't have time to fix all Homestead problems and issues every month. 

Please give me CLEAR directive for editing text in my mobile site. I have delete it on my desktop hundreds of times, cleared formatting and retyped it and yet I still cannot reduce size in mobile site. Help!

Why does the website not come up when on google on your cell phone? 

Hello, 

There is a ticket created to investigate and resolve this issue, but the engineers need more time to work on it. I'll update here on Community when I get any word of a resolution.

@elyzabethv​ This is really frustrating. It looks horrible to customers and destroying reputations and professionalism. We should be compensated. 

Same boat.

The problem is, Homestead stopped updating their Web Builder Plus, to be phased out. Those characters are from the "tabs" and some "spaces" in your words. If you remove those tabs to start with, many of those issues will go away. Homestead told me this morning to copy out the text, delete the text box, then make a new text box and copy back in, from the outside source, the desired text. Save, Publish and see where you stand. They suggested that we create new sites, using their latest Web Builder software.

I tried deleting the text box, putting a new one there and retyping everything but it is still there!

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I have two sites and it is only on one of them!

Having the same issue with  on every page. It looks like there are a lot of posts related to this same issue.

I contacted homestead/web.com and was told that the site builder we currently use is basically obsolete and we'll need to build a new site using the updated publisher. Thankfully, the new publisher will also be free to use. To fix the issue in the meantime, just go into the editor and essentially "erase" where the A's are - just using backspace will accomplish this - and republish the page.

Thank you - will do this today - soo annoyed and devastated - is homestead actually care about us as customers - 20 years I have been running my site and it is now an absolute mess!

I have the same thing, it happened to me a year ago and went in and changed it but now this time much worse and more pages. Absurd. Trying to get help from them but it is not promising that they did not respond to you yet.

i have this as well.

it so bad, i had to delete any extra space reformat so much on 8 pages. And some things it does not even make sense - like if something is bullet point or italics or links it wont let something next to it without the weird A or other character set

I was having the same problem. I went in and just started trying everything. It seems to be something corrupt with the text boxes and spaces. Every where this was occurring, I went in and deleted the text box, then placed a NEW text box, and "retyped"...yes retyped the text, NOT cut and paste. That seems to have solved the problem. I no longer have the random unwanted characters showing up.

Its a terrible solution, especially if you have large amounts of corrupt text, but it works!

Same Here

Hometead this needs fixed NOW!

Yes, I have same problem!  Please fix or give instructions as soon as possible.  I agree with other posts that it is too much work for the site owner to re-type every text box.

The same with my website. Here's an example from page https://www.masterclassmanagement.com/Leadership_Training-Management_Course-Key_Points_to_Leadership.html

@bill9059​ I appreciate knowing this isn't an isolated incident and am so sorry to see your site is also affected. I read this response from tom4728 "the reality is that Homestead has decided not to support the Sitebuilder+ platform any longer after my 12 years worth of business with them." I've been with Homestead since 2001. Not sure what I'm going to choose to do going forward. I'm so disheartened.

Same here, multiple  is on every page of my website www.masterclassmanagement.com

Same here, this needs fixed NOW!

Same here. This is my classroom website. I've been with Homestead since 2001. Disheartened doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. www.mrsdingman.com

Our website is experiencing the same problem.  Every page has A's and a's on it. Need to fix it, but how?