Template and Frontpage 2003

L

Linda

Originally my son bought a frontpage compatable template but he was doing the
work thru html. I now want to take over and tried but it's got some issues.

First off the main navagational bar links did show up on frontpage along
with my copyright info and links on the left hand side and when I uploaded my
correction the bar and other things weren't there wasn't showing the links.
You can see what I mean on my site www.firstinlinesoap.com.

I also screwed something up by the naviationalbar being bigger than the
page. (I think that's the problem)

My son wants me to stop lol and I want to be able to do it so any help would
be greatly appreciated.
 
R

Ronx

I suggest you remove the <body> background image. This does nothing for the
page except make the navigation extend beyond the page borders defined by
the vertical lines on the main table.
The copyright.htm and globalbottom.htm have not been uploaded to the
includes folder -hence the lack of copyright message and links. It look as
if these will be located at the bottom of the page when they are uploaded.

There are HTML errors, such as at line 69 (may be earlier when viewed in
FrontPage)

&nbsp;<p>

<td class="content">

You cannot place a table cell (<td class="content">) inside a paragraph
(<p>), and the previous cell should be closed before the next is opened.
This should probably be

</td>
<td class="content">

I can see nothing wrong with the horizontal navigation bar, except I
(personal choice) would place the link to Home in this, and move the other
links from above the logo to elsewhere in the page.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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L

Linda

Ronx said:
I suggest you remove the <body> background image. This does nothing for the
page except make the navigation extend beyond the page borders defined by
the vertical lines on the main table.
The copyright.htm and globalbottom.htm have not been uploaded to the
includes folder -hence the lack of copyright message and links. It look as
if these will be located at the bottom of the page when they are uploaded.

There are HTML errors, such as at line 69 (may be earlier when viewed in
FrontPage)

<p>

<td class="content">

You cannot place a table cell (<td class="content">) inside a paragraph
(<p>), and the previous cell should be closed before the next is opened.
This should probably be

</td>
<td class="content">

I can see nothing wrong with the horizontal navigation bar, except I
(personal choice) would place the link to Home in this, and move the other
links from above the logo to elsewhere in the page.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.




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Hi Ron
Click to expand...
thanks for your help. I removed the background image like you said and that
worked.
I don't have an includes file on the site or one that I downloaded. Right
now on the site it's fixed cause my son went in and did what he had to do to
get both the navigational bar and the other copyright info back on there.
I downloaded all the files to my computer but when I opened the index page
or any other page those things weren't there.

I do have a mainnavigation page which shows those links but just that grey
bar is what's showing up on the frontpage. plus when I uploaded the page
those links were missing.

As far as the other problem you detected how do I know what the line is. You
mentioned line 69 and where is the line #?

I appreciate your help and I'm sorry for my ignorance.

Linda
 
R

Ronx

Your home page is still in its original condition, though all the other
pages have been repaired.

The includes appear to be on your PC in the includes folder, but have not
been uploaded. Uploading these files is not essential since they will be
included in the pages on your PC, which should then be uploaded. The Home
page needs to be uploaded again - seems this was missed.
If you look at code view in frontPage, at the bottom of each page you will
see lines similar to:
<td colspan="2" class="footer">
<!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="includes/copyright.htm"
AG="BODY" --><!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="includes/globalbottom.htm"
TAG="BODY" startspan --></td>

copyright.htm and globalbottom.htm are files that are included into the main
pages - but the home page is missing them..


If you open the home page in a browser and View Source, Lines 69 to 81 are:

&nbsp;<p>

<td class="content">

<h1 style="text-align: center; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 19px">
<font size="6">The Designer Soap Company </font></h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 19px">
<font size="6">For The Retail Stores</font></h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="textshort">
<img border="0" src="images/products/thumbnails/amber_gm_thumb.jpg"
class="imageleft" width="100" height="100"><p>


Line 69 opens the paragraph with <p>
Line 71 opens a table cell before that paragraph is closed, and before the
previous table cell is closed.

These line numbers will not be the same in FrontPage code view (you can see
the line number at the bottom left of code view) because include files will
be collapsed in FrontPage, and expanded in the browser View Source.

Finally, do not apologise for "ignorance". Learning takes time and
experience - 15 years ago I knew less than you do now - in a few years from
now, you may be teaching me.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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