it isnt lo-fi , your skin files are missing.

ok thanks,

now from the localhost or the local network my skins work fine, if my skin files are missing, what do i do to fix that? do write permissions or the creation of certain folders have any affect?

try to locate the exact problem first.. try changing your skin and see if it's about the current skin or a general problem.. try re-down/uploading your files

That page won't load at all. Server times out.

Does your $baseurl in conf/_basic_config.php have "localhost" in it?