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Ok, two problems so far
1: None of the Home links work - just get 404 error
2 .. see thread "Align jpg's Horizontally - How?" in the Graphics section for description of problem I've had matching text with pictures, and space between them
Anyway, here it is:
http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/index.html
Note: Corrected the URL to its new index.html version.
mcbodee
03-15-2006, 06:28 AM
The pages (Weather.html, Music.html, frequencies.html, etc.) need to be uploaded in the root directory. Also I'd change the first link to http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/index_default.htm for Home link.
<li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/Home.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/Weather.html">Weather</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/Music.html">Music</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/frequencies.html">Local Scanning Frequencies</a></li>
<!-- li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/genealogy.html">Genealogy</a></li -->
<!-- li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/radio.html">Radio</a></li -->
<li><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/pictures.html">Pictures</a></li>
ray326
03-15-2006, 12:33 PM
First I think we need a little trip to the HTML validator.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgpayne2.home.mindspring.com%2Findex_default.htm
Then I'd recommend working out your problems using the HTML and CSS forums here.
mcbodee -- here's what I get when looking at the page with the parent directory:
Parent Directory 15-Mar-2006 03:26 -
index_default.htm 15-Mar-2006 04:30 10k
pictures/ 15-Mar-2006 03:28 -
So.... index_default would go into the Parent directory but not the pictures/ folder then :confused:
mcbodee - tried the change of home URL to suggested, but still get 404 error.
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ray326 ran it thru Validator, and came across puzzlers such as in several cases it saying the problem was caused by using XHTML instead of HTML--but far as I know, I'm not using XHTML--and that I can't use # in front of colors (For example, #fff000 isn't allowed, in other words)
In 3 or 4 places it says I can't use <CENTER>.
VERSION 1.1 of my webpage now up. :)
Still no luck getting the Home links on pages to work, though, "404 Error"
ray326
03-15-2006, 10:51 PM
This is invalid. You can't have any of those tags inside the head.
<HEAD>
<CENTER><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Courier New, Sans Serif" color=#ff000 size=+7>THE
PAYNE PLACE</FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Courier New, Sans Serif" color=#ffff00 <size=+1>A Collection of Links on Genealogy, Jazz, Missouri, Radio, Scanners, Weather,
Plus other items hopefully of Interest</CENTER></FONT>
<CENTER><H4>Version 1.1 Uploaded: 3/15/2006</H4></CENTER>
<BR>
...
Also you have a server configuration problem. The server is serving your style sheet with an incorrect MIME type, text/html instead of text/css. Probably because of that, I see your page as white on yellow, which makes it very difficult to read at all.
The 404s are because you haven't uploaded the other pages yet. The only page in your doc root is the one you've got the link to. Unless you want people like me snooping around the guts of your site then you need to rename that page index.html.
Argh .... still not quite sure I get what's meant. So the server sees it only as ONE page, no breaks between them then? In other words if there are eventually, 10 pages on my website (if I can ever get it going) I have to make 10 seperate uploads - 1 page each ?????
index.html instead of index_default.html ??
Center Font Face since its invalid, how then would font styles be done instead of this ??
Wonder how I change that from text/html to text/css in the ftp program? I see it with light blue background, dark green links, and white type for description of the site it leads to.
Errr, wait a minute .... if I move the <Head> to underneath the Version 1.1 line in above example, would that work???
Well after about 3 hours (so far) have accomplished the following:
changed name of file to index.html
found no way in COREftp LE, Vers. 1.3c (build 1447) to change from text/html to text/css unless it has something to do with SSL settings??
Have upload tab set on "Automatic" but program gives choice of ASCII & Binary.
validator.w3 site says I can't use <CENTER>, or the # in front of a color, in several places says a < cant be used, <li> cant be used, A HRef (with or without the <> ) cant be used, plus several other references.
I still can't get the links to work to go between pages -- the site's seen as a continuous page, instead of seperate pages. Is there a specific command in 4.01 to split pages so they work with links? And why is validator.w3 also telling me I'm using XHTML & HTML together :confused:
ray326
03-16-2006, 04:54 PM
I still can't get the links to work to go between pages -- the site's seen as a continuous page, instead of seperate pages.Ok, I understand what you've got now. To make that work like you expect you'll have to break that one page into separate HTML pages. E.g. the PICTURES section of the page would have to be deleted from index.html and put into a pictures.html. Could I recommend http://www.w3schools.com/
perhaps?
Ergh. been lookig thru the W3 Schools site last half hour or so, but since I don't really know what to look for, its been a tough go.
the pictures section from index.html & make seperate pictures.html? I'm reading this wrong I'm sure, but are you saying to make a seperate page altogether for pictures? But then what about the others?
The present line reads <CENTER><a href="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/index.html" TARGET="http://gpayne2.home.mindspring.com/pictures.html"><br><br>HOME</a></CENTER>
</H2>
so would the first .com/index in the line be changed to .com/pictures.html
ray326
03-16-2006, 10:28 PM
Each of them needs to be a separate page. The anchor should read,
<a href="pictures.html">Pictures</a>
If you need a reference more direct than w3schools then check the Castro link below.
Hm tried it as 2 lines
<CENTER><H2>PICTURES</H2></CENTER>
<a href="pictures.html">PICTURES></a>
and
<CENTER><H2>PICTURES</H2></CENTER><a href="pictures.html">PICTURES></a>
and
<a href="pictures.html">PICTURES></a><CENTER><H2>PICTURES</H2></CENTER>
= 3 '404' errors