FRONTPAGE 2000 QUESTIONS

I just launched a website www.skylarhomes.com. My home page is all created in DHTML.

1) How do I make it so Netscape users can view the Home Page? They get a blank page now.

2) How do I slow the effects down. They go so fast it doesn't look good.

3) How do I decrease the size of some of the pages so they dowload faster, while not reducing the quality of the pictures?

Hi Tony,

> 1) How do I make it so Netscape users can view the Home Page? They get
a blank page now.

Netscape is not forgiving when it comes to HTML, and typically this effect
is caused by HTML tags such as tables that are opened but not closed
(mis-matching tags). You will have to check and make sure that you have no
tables that have opening tags without closing tags, as well as tables and
other HTML elements that do not overlap. Nesting an HTML element inside
another is fine, but overlapping them is not.

> 2) How do I slow the effects down. They go so fast it doesn't look
good.

If you're talking about the "flying text" you would have to write your own
JavaScript or revise the JavaScript that FrontPage generates in the
"animate.js" file to do this.

> 3) How do I decrease the size of some of the pages so they dowload
faster, while not reducing the quality of the pictures?

This hover buttons use 2 images apiece, one for the mouseover. That doubles
the number of images used in a page that uses Hover buttons. Good imaging
software can help you optimize the images so that they run faster. Other
than that, and the Java applet that must be downloaded by the browser for
hover buttons, you won't have any real optimization to do.

One other note: Hover Buttons are Java applets, and Java requires a Java
Virtual Machine (JVM) on the Operating System to run. Due to the situation
with Sun suing Microsoft, one of the outcomes is that many Windows systems
today do not have a Javqa Virtual Machine on them. You would do best to
avoid using Java applets in your pages for maximum cross-platform
compatibility.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"Tony O" <TONYOYNOT@COMCAST.NET> wrote in message
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> I just launched a website www.skylarhomes.com. My home page is all
created in DHTML.
>
> 1) How do I make it so Netscape users can view the Home Page? They get
a blank page now.
>
> 2) How do I slow the effects down. They go so fast it doesn't look
good.
>
> 3) How do I decrease the size of some of the pages so they dowload
faster, while not reducing the quality of the pictures?
>
>