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ZachWaldman
08-06-2006, 09:44 PM
When I preview my site in Firefox it looks fine but when I upload it, the pop-up menus and graphics are all shifted and whacked out. The site looks fine in IE and like I said it looks fine in Firefox when I preview it, but not after I upload. Any ideas? I'm using Fireworks HTML and exporting it to Dreamweaver 8.
The URL is http://www.zachwaldman.com
Also, I just learned about the W3 validator. The site didn't pass but I can't figure out how to fix the errors. One of them is a doc type declaration error but when I tried to replace the one that's there with one they recommend, the site vanishes altogether.
Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
Zach
You need to use a DOCTYPE declaration for a frameset (for the homepage):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
You will need to add a DOCTYPE to each page linked to in your frame, too.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Reference: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
KDLA
Once you add the DOCTYPE, your alignment problems may go away.
ZachWaldman
08-07-2006, 05:59 PM
Thank you so much, that did the trick.
Regards,
Zach
mkelso
08-22-2006, 08:49 PM
I am having a similar problem. When I preview my site in Firefox it looks fine but when I upload it, my bodytext and buttontext styles are not viewable (just show default text type and color) The site looks fine in IE and looks fine in Firefox when I preview it, but not after I upload. I'm using Dreamweaver 8. Is there a similar solution?
mike
drhowarddrfine
08-22-2006, 08:54 PM
Probably. Just look at your source when you view it online. IE never displays the same as modern browsers like Firefox without a proper doctype.
mkelso
08-22-2006, 09:14 PM
Here is the doctype on the page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
I also noticed that just one of my pages (within the same site) IS showing the correct text style and color. I have looked at the code to see if their were any differences between the one page that displayed correctly and all the others. I could not see any.
The doctype is the same in both the page that is correct and the ones that are not.
Be patient with me. I'm just a novice that is in over his head.
Could anyone offer more specific advice/solutions?
THanks, Mike
I fixed it! I'm not exactly how the the problem happened but I have it corrected. Just took some eye-bulging html detailed review to notice some discrepencies. For some reason the CSS I set wasn't being carried through the whole docuement correctly. I suspect that part of the issue is a feature on Dreamweaver 8 that I'm not sure I like. Every time you change your style of font size in the properties window while in design view, it creates a new style. (style 1, style 2, ...style 199):mad: I guess the good thing out of all this is it forced me to really watch my html more than my design.
THANKS! :)