http://128.121.113.94/index.htm

I've built the home page and I'm using that
as a "template" for the rest of the website:

TEMPLATE: http://128.121.113.94/index.htm

I'm working on the egional areas of my site
now (USA, france,carribean, etc.) To use
my template page to begin a new page I use
the following procedures:

1) Starting from my template I use "save as"
to start another page.

2) I add some custom HTML to add the CGI coding needed to display the database info
(Insert -> Advanced -> HTML)

This is working great... EXCEPT for a few
pages that are LOOKING AWEFUL due to the right navigation bar (yellow) being RANDOMLY
MOVED DOWN on the page making it look bad.

See for yourself:

Correct -> http://128.121.113.94/index.htm
Incorrect -> http://128.121.113.94/southern_usa_vacation_rentals.shtml

What the HECK is happening. I cannot... for the life of me figure this out.

Thanks,

Matt Hockin

You have columns within a table set at 100% width where there are others at fixed width - this is impossible. There are heights set in some cells that are different to cells beside them - again impossible. In any case ot is best to avoid heights altogether.

There are loads of <div> tags scattered about doing nothing in particular.

I hadn't time to do all this with the correct page so I can't tell you if it is somehow different.

I have a feeling that you did a fair bit of fiddling to get your template right and that what has happened is that FP has left bits of code from things you deleted or changed hanging around.

I have always found that if I do a lot of fiddling to get a thing as I want it I either have to go into HTML view and remove all the extrneous stuff or (better but slower) remake the who;e thing once I have the structurte clear in my head.

Sorry that I have no quick fix. - perhaps someone with a clearer head than me will see a way of sorting it without having to remake your template.

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InKK Design
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This isn't going to be fun.

I'm going to have to re-do EVERY page.

I love FrontPage!!!!

Matt

Thomas Brunt told me that when we did a training session.

I did notice that I clicked on the cells and moved them (barely) by mistake. I would always click the back/undo button after that.

Do you think this may have been the problem?

Matt

Loosing tags usually happens when copy/pasting code. It's pretty common for folks to copy almost all the code they need but to leave off a closing tag.

Thanks for the reply.

I think I need to re-do the template and start the whole website from stratch again.

Any tips on doing this in a way to not mess up my coding. I need "clean" coding from the start in a "template" page. I'll then use the template to start each new page by using "save as".

OR:

Maybe I should just clean up the coding on my index/template page and then use it as the template???

Thanks,

Matt Hockin

I hired Thomas Brunt to help consult me throught this mess. It turned out that
my programming wasn't the problem.

He found the issue in about 5 minutes. The CGI/Perl programming code needed a quick fix and now everything works perfectly.

Thanks Thomas!

Matt Hockin