Links not appearing (instead white boxes with red cross)

[Guest]

Hi
I hope someone can help. This would seem to be a simple problem but Im
getting nowhere. My friend has Windows XP and IE6 but for some reason he
cannot seem to be able to click on links in webpages. Especially pages
created by Frontpage. All he is getting are white boxes with red crosses in.
When I try the same websites they are fine.
PLease any advice would be grateful. I have checked his security settings
but it must be something simple that I have missed........
Thanks
Richard

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Are these links regular underlined text hyperlinks or are you talking about
navigation buttons and/or menus?
And, if you could provide a sample site URL or two for us to examine exactly
what type of links you are referring to.

 

[Guest]

I am having a very similar problem. I post links to the picture on my web
page at texas22.org on the third nav bar button, but they do not appear on my
display when I go to the site where I published the page. They are in the
sitebuilder program when I publishe to the web, but do not show on this
specific laptop when I go to the page in the browser. I am using Windows XP
Home, publishing with Sitebuilder and I have tried boths MSIE 6 and Mozilla.
Neither browser will bring up these links.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jon

The website that my friend created is
www.thegeorgeknighton.freeserve.co.uk
It is the links on the bottom of the page that do not work for him. However
they work for me and I suspect they will work for you to. I have tried all
sorts.
From system restore to lowering the security settings in Internet options. I
think that only a re installation of Windows XP may work as perhaps the
registry has become corrupted.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thanks

Richard

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Those menu buttons across the bottom of the page are generated by Java.
They are similar to the buttons along the right side of this code sample
page: http://jane.fearby.com/tutorials/java.html - move your mouse cursor
over the word "button". Code to the left, buttons to the right. On the
site you mentioned, you can see the code by going, in IE, to View...Source,
and scrolling down to the bottom - and see the code is similar to the one
plainly visible on the page I referenced above.

What your user has to do is to install Java:
http://www.java.com/en/download/download_the_latest.jsp - Sun's Java
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1050022631 MS Java VM
Both can be installed and Sun's can be turned off by going to
Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, or by using it's own control panel.

If that doesn't work, then reinstall Microsoft's scripting engines here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp

If still no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Security...Custom
and make sure Java and Scripting has not been disabled.