KelBelStar
05-23-2007, 09:40 PM
I received some great advice a couple of weeks ago regarding my website, which was written using FrontPage but had viewing errors in FireFox. I downloaded Expression Web and some templates to get started - and rewrote the site using CSS (see, I graduated from the Frontpage forum to this one!)
I have some reading materials to delve into, but my primary goal is to get the site back to being viewer friendly... then I can spend my time learning details of CSS and EW.
At this time, using the templates, I have a nice looking site (IMO) from the folder on my laptop where I am building - however, after publishing to my server, only the text came across. To get around this, I opened each page and did a 'save as' to my server. This brought over the formatting, except not everything…
1) The menu bar is just displaying as a plain red line, rather than a 3D line
2) The entire page background is white whereas from my build folder the left pane is a varying shade of gray.
3) My 'why review' page is frustrating me because after much work on it, it displays from the server with the left pane text not appearing until after the main pane text is done - awful! (irony, this one is working on FF)
The link to this page says it all: http://www.lilyusability.com/WhyReview.htm
Since it is clean from my build area, I keep thinking there is something that is not moving up to the server. I compared the code on the files from both locations and it is fine - I also checked all files are there. The other thing, I published to another local build folder on my PC and that has the same problem as my server version - so it must not be anything on the server. I did run a validation but I couldn't pick up that the warnings were related to my issues.
Any advice on what direction I should go w/ this will be helpful.
I have some reading materials to delve into, but my primary goal is to get the site back to being viewer friendly... then I can spend my time learning details of CSS and EW.
At this time, using the templates, I have a nice looking site (IMO) from the folder on my laptop where I am building - however, after publishing to my server, only the text came across. To get around this, I opened each page and did a 'save as' to my server. This brought over the formatting, except not everything…
1) The menu bar is just displaying as a plain red line, rather than a 3D line
2) The entire page background is white whereas from my build folder the left pane is a varying shade of gray.
3) My 'why review' page is frustrating me because after much work on it, it displays from the server with the left pane text not appearing until after the main pane text is done - awful! (irony, this one is working on FF)
The link to this page says it all: http://www.lilyusability.com/WhyReview.htm
Since it is clean from my build area, I keep thinking there is something that is not moving up to the server. I compared the code on the files from both locations and it is fine - I also checked all files are there. The other thing, I published to another local build folder on my PC and that has the same problem as my server version - so it must not be anything on the server. I did run a validation but I couldn't pick up that the warnings were related to my issues.
Any advice on what direction I should go w/ this will be helpful.