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I've Gained a New Respect for Website Designers

Postby joe39 » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 8:38 pm

Hi All,

I designed a site in Composer and then went to publish it. My ISP gave me a FTP link and after validating the file (it was fine) and much phone time with the ISP, finally got it loaded and up! Great, but when looking at it in Netscape 7.2 it was just as designed but in IE the background, text color, and all but two pictures were missing.

Can it be fixed? :?

Thanks in advance for your expert help.

Joe
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Re: I've Gained a New Respect for Website Designers

Postby Antony » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 9:46 pm

joe39 wrote:Can it be fixed? :?
Hello Joe,
shouldn't you show us your design, so we can tell you where to fix it?
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Postby joe39 » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 9:50 pm

The web site is:

http://www.atnex.net/site/jwurzburger/Legalize.html

Thanks Again,

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Postby joe39 » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 10:26 pm

I sent the page to a friend and it does'nt come up. Booo! :(

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Postby joe39 » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 10:29 pm

She also uses Netscape 7.2. :roll:
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Postby Antony » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 10:51 pm

Okay, I have a quick read of the source code,

You have something like
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src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/... .JPG


You will need to upload the pictures to the server, and change all the links [tt]src[/tt] to the path (web path) not local file path.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 30 Aug, 2005 7:47 pm

You may want to take a look at the code of your site. I'm aware you probably don't know HTML (the language of websites), so I will bear with you.

First of all, you are using non-breaking spaces where you don't need to. I don't know how exactly you were doing that, but it's best to just use a single space (i.e. press of the spacebar).

Second, it looks like you're using line breaks to display part of the background. I guarantee that this will not work to do what you want to do. It's better to use a single image (either by Composer's Image button, or through the HTML <IMG> tag).

Third, you should consider using CSS over HTML attributes in your document. The W3C (the people that made the HTML specification) say that the <FONT> tag, which you are using, is outdated.

Fourth, yellow text on a white background is hard to read.

Here's a modified version of your original that you can copy/paste and use . . .

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <!-- This tells us what language you have written the page in -->
  <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
 http-equiv="content-type">
 <!-- The title of the page -->
  <title>Legalize</title>
  <!-- This is the page's styling information; without it, you will
  only have minor styling like bold text -->
  <style type="text/css">
  body {color: #FFFF00; background-color: #FFFFFF;}
  a:link {color: #33ff33;}
  a:active {color: #CC0000;}
  a:visited {color: #990099;}
  .em {font-weight: bold; color: #ff0000;}
  </style>
</head>
<!-- This is the actual content of the site -->
<body>
<!-- This text and image are centered -->
<div style="font-family: helvetica,arial; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center;">
<p>Legalize Sportswear</p>
<img alt="" src="/LegalizeShorts.JPG" style="width: 640px; height: 480px;">
</div>
<!-- End the centered text and image -->
<hr>
<div style="font-size: 14pt;">
<p>In the early 90s, these Boxer Shorts were conceptionalized
<span style="font-weight: bold;">but</span>were a little ahead of
their time. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Now</span>,
it is a topic heard
daily. We offer them at $15.00 US per pair. All sizes are
available: Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large. New
elastic will be sewn in prior to shipping. Shipping is generally
via United States Postal Service, Priority Mail with Confirmed Delivery
at $4.40. This cost would accommodate up to 4 pair. Payment
by Certified Check or Money Order. Please be sure to
include the <span class="em">size</span> and <span class="em">shipping address</span>
with order.</p>
<p>Please see further pictures below.</p>
</div>
<!-- NOTE: NEVER put your e-mail address as text, ALWAYS use mailto:address. -->
<p>Order or information email: <a href="mailto:jlw3@atnex.net">click here</a></p>
<!-- Per the HTML 4.01 Strict schema, it is required that this style-less DIV be present
containing the images -->
<div>
<img alt="From Where?"
 src="/LegalizeFromWhere.JPG"
 style="width: 640px; height: 480px;"><img alt="Even Pups Like"
 src="/P4190505.JPG"
 style="width: 640px; height: 480px;"><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>


Just keep in mind to remove the spaces in the image URLs, and load them into the site's parent (root) directory.
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Postby joe39 » Tue 30 Aug, 2005 10:02 pm

Don and Antony,

You guys just blow me away. This whole thing is so over my head. :oops: I sent a copy of yesterday's posts to the lead technical guy for my ISP but he hasn't gotten back to me yet. I'll forward a copy of todays and I'll let you know how it turns out.

In the meantime, "Thank You" both for the awesome info. I'm sure it will be just dandy.

Appreciatively,

Joe
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Postby joe39 » Fri 09 Sep, 2005 10:24 pm

Hi,

After numerous calls and designs in Frontpage, the Web site is finally up. Thank you for all the expertise and time you expended.

Joe :)
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