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Basically the site looks that way because it's not pulling down all the files. Nowadays the content of a site (the words) and the layout of the site (where the words go, how they look, what graphics go where) are often in 2 different files.

So what's happening is it's getting one file, but not the other.

As to why it's happening, could be a number of different reasons, and figuring out what it is can be challenging, especially if it's intermittent.

You can use something like PingPlotter to ping your router constantly to see if it's a connection problem from your PC to your router.. and you can ping your local internet gateway to see if it's a connectivity issue with your ISP.

This is assuming that ping will fail when the website requests fail, that's not always the case, so it could still be a connectivity issue even if ping works all the time.

It could also be a DNS problem, your computer isn't getting the IP address of the server for one of the two files (sometimes they are on different servers).. you can test this by switching to something like OpenDNS temporarily to see if that resolves the issue.

Could be a weird browser thing too, switch to a different browser for a while and see if it does the same thing.

In short, diagnosing an intermittent problem sucks.