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labnet

01-25-2005, 01:12 PM

I am new to web design. I am using front page. When I publish or view my index page (home page)in the browser, the top link/navigation bar shows up with boxes with x's in them with the link title in the box. I have the same Navigation bar on all pages, but this is the only page that does this. Very confusing! ANY help is appreciated.

Thanks!

blastradius

01-25-2005, 02:05 PM

Can you post a link to the page. This would help us see what happening and the code that is causing it.

paulhiles

01-25-2005, 04:28 PM

Hey there labnet,
Welcome to WebProWorld!

Check the HTML code view to make sure the paths to your images aren't referencing image files on your local PC.

As Blastradius says, a link to a URL would be useful! :o)

vwebworld

01-26-2005, 03:06 PM

The "x" mean the browser can not find the image.

This can be caused by not uploading those images to your server when you "published" the site. Or as
Paul suggests having an incorrect url address for those images in the HTML code.

So, check that the images are infact uploaded to your server. Usually, FP will put them in an /images
sub-directory.

Check your FP file to see where those images are ment
to be. Open the file with FP and check the "properties" for the images... that will tell you where they should be located on your server.

~Roland

Talkfreelance

01-26-2005, 03:15 PM

It's most likely just a file path issue, e.g the Image has been saved to the wrong directory.

labnet

01-26-2005, 04:40 PM

Ok, I am very new to this. So hope you all are patient! So, if before I publish, I go to "view in browser", It will show the pictures, but not the link bar. Such that the link bar only has boxes with the x's and the link name. If I change the style to somthing very basic, with just link names, like one you might see at the bottom of a page, it will show up. Like I said before, this is the exact same link bar I have on other pages, and it works fine on them, just not on home/index page. I am fairly html ignorant, so if this is where I need help, specifics who be appreciated. Thanks.

labnet

01-26-2005, 04:46 PM

on one of the pages that works the html looks like this...

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>contact us</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Language content=en-us>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR>
<META content=FrontPage.Editor.Document name=ProgId>
<style>

</style>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="sumipntg 101, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none, default">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

On the page that does not looks like this...

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html><head><TITLE>index</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>Home</title>
<base target="_self" href="http://www.chesterlab.net">
<style>

</style>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="sumipntg 101, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none, default">
</head>

<body>

So it seems like there should be a line that says saved from url whatever... but not sure how to get it there, of if that is ever correct. Thanks again for the help.

chiron

01-29-2005, 05:03 PM

The comment tags on...

...means this has nothing to do with your issue - it's just an IE function that embeds automatically when you "File: Save As" an HTML page from a given URL, and is not an influence on visual display.

My guess is that you've got relative HREF image location issues, although as others have noted, if you would list your URL to the site that is not working, it'll be 15 seconds to discovery of issue and however long it takes to type a solution.

carju1

01-29-2005, 05:31 PM

Hi Labnet,

I'm afraid the code you posted tells us nothing of use. The stuff you are showing is just page information none of it is browser displayed.

I'm guessing you only have the new pages locally (you haven't published then live yet? ). You are going to have to either paste some more of the code (the bits after soemthing similar to <script language="JavaScript"><!--if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav1n=MSFPpreload> ) Also if you are using standard FrontPage naming and folders find in a "good page" a bit of code starting <img src="_derived/xyz.gif or xyz.jpg depending upon your menu item image name/type. Then check the same place on the home page as it could well be showing a full path there to your server (more like <img src="http://www.chesterlab.net/_derived/... )

Lets us know what you find

carju1