frontpage site only works with Internet Explorer

[Spacewalker]

Hi,

I have created a website using Frontpage 2002 SP3.
But now I see the following problem:
my site can only be used by Internet Explorer - in all other browsers the
site is displayed as a picture (.JPG), and no link etc.can be clicked on.

How could I save my site so that all browsers can access the pages\links
etc. ?

this is my site:
www.scout-soft.com

thx

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Sure looks like Publisher created code - old Publisher code.

Don't use anything from the Draw toolbar in FP (Textbox, Shapes, Lines,
etc).

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





| Hi,
|
| I have created a website using Frontpage 2002 SP3.
| But now I see the following problem:
| my site can only be used by Internet Explorer - in all other browsers the
| site is displayed as a picture (.JPG), and no link etc.can be clicked on.
|
| How could I save my site so that all browsers can access the pages\links
| etc. ?
|
| this is my site:
| www.scout-soft.com
|
| thx
|
|
|
|

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

You designed it with the drawing tools. This is a huge no no. Don't use the
drawing tools ever if you can avoid it.

The drawing tools use something called Vector Markup Language. It's a
standard, but unfortunately none of the other browsers support it.

The drawing tools are a trap that many people fall into so don't feel bad.
When first starting to use FrontPage or to design for the web in general,
most new designers expect to be able to work with the web like you would
work with Word or Publisher. Unfortunately, the web doesn't work like that.
You'll need to start over since pretty much all of your page is done in VML.
What you need to use is tables. Define a series of tables that form the
layout for your pages. You probably can use a two column format. Don't
forget that you can combine rows or columns to get the look you need.

 

[Spacewalker]

Hi,

thank you all for you answers.

Yes.. I have used Publisher... a Publisher "template" to be more exact....
seems to be a big mistake...

Ok... will start again.

thx & bye

PS: I have no chance to convert this VML stuff to frames.... ?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

No, you definitely DON'T want to use frames. Frames were useful long ago
when we were suck with 14.4 and 28.8 dialup modems. They provided a means to
avoid loading the same objects on a page over and over again. They had great
success, but it only lasted a couple years. The problems with frames are
huge, especially if you need your site found on a search engine.

A frame page is made up of two parts.
The main part is the frameset. This defines how the browser is carved up
into individual frames.
The second part is made up of the pages that go into the frames defined in
the frameset.

The real problem stems from linking. How do you link to a page in your
website? Normally, if you wanted to link to the "about us" page you would
normally do www.mysite.com/aboutus.htm. That doesn't work the same with
frames. Instead of viewing an about us page in a nice pretty frameset with
all the logo and navigation elements, all you see is the actual about us
page that would normally be loaded into the frameset. Since you went
straight to the about us page the frameset has been bypassed and nothing
else was loaded. This basically kills the ability to put a frames-based site
on a search engine and expect results.

Don't worry though, if it's a consistant look and feel your're after you may
be in luck. I forget if this features was introduced in FP 2002 or 2003, but
look for something called Dynamic Web Template (DWTs). A DWT is basically a
master template that you can use to apply a consistent look and feel to all
your pages. You start by creating your look and feel in the DWT and then
defining areas that are editable. When you create a new web page that is
based on a DWT, you'll get all the look and feel items but can only touch
the parts of the page that you marked as editable in the main DWT. To make a
change to all the pages that use the DWT, just make the change in the DWT
and update all the pages and FP will go through, find all the pages that use
the DWT, and make changes to the non-editable HTML portions to make them the
same as the DWT.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

You cannot fix Publisher created code...you'll have to start from square one
in FP. But, you know what you want it to look like now, so shouldn't be too
hard.



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





| Hi,
|
| thank you all for you answers.
|
| Yes.. I have used Publisher... a Publisher "template" to be more exact....
| seems to be a big mistake...
|
| Ok... will start again.
|
| thx & bye
|
| PS: I have no chance to convert this VML stuff to frames.... ?
|
|
|
| | > You designed it with the drawing tools. This is a huge no no. Don't use
| > the drawing tools ever if you can avoid it.
| >
| > The drawing tools use something called Vector Markup Language. It's a
| > standard, but unfortunately none of the other browsers support it.
| >
| > The drawing tools are a trap that many people fall into so don't feel
bad.
| > When first starting to use FrontPage or to design for the web in
general,
| > most new designers expect to be able to work with the web like you would
| > work with Word or Publisher. Unfortunately, the web doesn't work like
| > that. You'll need to start over since pretty much all of your page is
done
| > in VML. What you need to use is tables. Define a series of tables that
| > form the layout for your pages. You probably can use a two column
format.
| > Don't forget that you can combine rows or columns to get the look you
| > need.
| >
| >
| > --
| > Hope this helps,
| > Mark Fitzpatrick
| > Microsoft MVP - Expression
| >
| >
| >
| > | >> Hi,
| >>
| >> I have created a website using Frontpage 2002 SP3.
| >> But now I see the following problem:
| >> my site can only be used by Internet Explorer - in all other browsers
the
| >> site is displayed as a picture (.JPG), and no link etc.can be clicked
on.
| >>
| >> How could I save my site so that all browsers can access the
pages\links
| >> etc. ?
| >>
| >> this is my site:
| >> www.scout-soft.com
| >>
| >> thx
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >
|
|