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Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 4:03:10
I just finished uploading my index page. When I previewed it in Dreamweaver, the page looked fine. However now that it is live, this is what's happening to the text.
Don’t forget to checkout this section
it this far”
Can someone help.
http://www.thehiphopworld.com
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 5:12:17
It looks like you have curly quotes and curly apostrophes being converted to weird code for some reason. If you do a "find and replace" for all the "curlies" and convert them to straight, the problem will probably disappear.
It is wise to always use straight quotes & apostrophes everywhere in a website, as you can't predict what character set visitors will be using as default.
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 5:35:24
Ok. What is a curly? Yes I did copy and past from Word. I'm so lost. How do I fix this problem?
I can't see <p class="style2">Thehiphopworld.com is being built to celebrate the culture and inform you on where it’s at, and where it's going.<strong> in the dream weaver source code but I can see it live.
Where do I go from here?
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 5:48:50
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Where do I go from here?
Look at this text, and you'll notice that the strange characters correspond to where you are highly likely to have Quotation marks. If you look closely at them (try increasing the font size if you can't see it well) you will notice they are curly not straight.
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Thehiphopworld.com is being built to celebrate the culture and inform you on where it's at and where it's going. “Never thought that hip-hop would take it this far”(Biggie Smalls)
Open the page in Design view and highlight (with mouse) one of the curly quotes or apostrophes and go to Edit >> Replace. In the second field type " or ' and click "Replace all". DW will automatically replace all instances of that weird character on that page. You will have to repeat the process three times in all, for left and right quotes and apostrophes.
If the problem is happening on other pages, you will have to repeat the process there too.
If that doesn't fix the problem, come back and ask again.
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 5:52:17
Got it. Thank you guys for the help.
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 5:55:59
Any advice you guys would like to offer for my site?
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 11:02:43
nice site but the text needs more leading/ line spacing.
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 21:08:21
I fixed the other pages, but it's back on http://www.thehiphopworld.com/50-cent.html
I can't find any curlies or anything wrong here.
Can someone point it out?
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/8/2006 23:27:27
This time it looks like unusual space codes might be the culprit. Try using Backspace to remove all the spaces around where the odd characters are occurring and then replace them using your spacebar normally, then publish the page and see if it is fixed.
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RE: Why is my text doing this? - 2/9/2006 3:03:13
It worked. I love this forum.
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