For some reason, after I add:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
between my head tags, certain symbols (namely quotation marks) show up as diamond-shape icons with question marks in the middle, as if that symbol is not found. Anyone know what's up?
Your text editor is saving your file, including the quotation marks, in some encoding that isn't UTF-8 (most likely CP1252). Convert the file to actually be UTF-8 and try again.
Are these regular quote characters (ASCII 34) or the dreaded "smart quotes"? They're probably smart quotes. This typically happens when programmers cut/paste content from a word processor document. I recommend changing them to regular quotes. Doing so doesn't impact the content. It'll just give you cleaner markup and avoid annoying encoding issues.
