Blank pages

[marion]

I recently gave a completed website to a client on CD and he ran it on a laptop which had not previously been used for this purpose. The pages opened but were completely blank. They just contained ordinary text, ordinary images, ordinary links. (The links worked).

I don't have details of the laptop except that it was "fairly new". I at first assumed that "Allow Active Content from CDs" had not been set so I tried to replicate this situation on my own PCs but have not been able to. Does anyone know of any reason why pages might load blank? This did not happen at all during the testing phase.

Regards
Marion

[pcthug]

Maybe the link to the css file was false, i.e. file:///C:\Not\The\CD\Path\style.css

[marion]

No, I'm using relative paths.

Marion

[ray326]

Does a view/source on the blank page show anything?

[skilled1]

best to show clients your work either on the web, or off your computer so you do not have to worry about problems like this so you do nto end up with egg on your face.

ie if you are working on a clients website, and you have one, set up a dev folder

http://www.yoursite.com/dev/clientpage

that way they can actually tinker around all they want, see what they like, what works and can better see how it will act, and be able to forward the link to others and get their input. that way, you do not have to worry about them losing the disc, or it getting damage, and you can update and make changes in REAL time as you are talking with them over the phone, then upload the changes, for them to review.

my clients have always loved how i was able to show them real time progress on their site as it got further along. they felt like they had a big say in how it came out.

when you are complete, just copy their origional websit to a cd, and your version and present it to them when you are done, that way if they need someone else to do work in the future, then someone else has access to the *.pdf files and origional work, and then replace their old site with you recent created work.

that is how i do it anyway.

[marion]

Yes, it does, but not the full contents of the page.

Thanks for your replies, everyone. I think I've managed to replicate it.

I have been changing settings today (Tools-Internet Options-Security-Enable Scripts off) and found this changed nothing even after a reboot. So I re-Enabled Scripts. Then later I got a blank page when I logged onto my online bank! I checked whether Enable Scripts was on and it was.

Now it is evening time and everything is behaving as I expected. Sorry if this is difficult to follow but it seems to me as if there is some delay following a change in that particular setting. Can anyone shed any light?

Regards
Marion