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howarde1956 -> Navigation bar publish problems (2/17/2006 23:31:27)

This is driving me crazy. I have created a website with the navigation bars on the left side of the pages. When I hit preview at the bottom of the page view I see the links. When I hit preview in browser from the file menu I see no link bar. I even uploaded it to my comcast webpage to see if the navigation bar appeared but it did not. What am I doing wrong. I have been trying to figure this out for two days now and cant get them to show up in a browser preview. I know someone here can help me. Idid a search of the forums and did not find the answer. Thanks in advance.



dpf -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (2/18/2006 12:18:15)

post the url so we can see the code



howarde1956 -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (2/18/2006 15:22:12)

http://home.comcast.net/~howarde1956/
Thats the url, but you can only see the hompage and you cant get to the other pages because the navigation bars dont show up in the left border.
Hope you can help me.



Kitka -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (2/18/2006 18:38:54)

Hi howard,

Welcome to Outfront!

Firstly, the code for the nav is there on the page: 

<a href="./"><img src="_derived/home_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn_p.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="Home"></a><br><a href="pest_control.htm"><img src="_derived/pest_control.htm_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="Pest Control"></a><br><a href="termites.htm"><img src="_derived/termites.htm_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="Termites"></a><br><a href="new_page_2.htm"><img src="_derived/new_page_2.htm_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="Weed Contol"></a><br><a href="trees_and_shrubs.htm"><img src="_derived/trees_and_shrubs.htm_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="Trees and Shrubs"></a><br><a href="new_construction.htm"><img src="_derived/new_construction.htm_cmp_strtedge000_vbtn.gif" width="0" height="0" border="0" alt="New Construction"></a>


...but, the graphics for the buttons do not appear to be in place in your site and nothing appears on the page, because the size of the buttons is set to zero height and width - so not even broken image placeholders show where they should be. You need to check to see that you have a folder called _derived in your site and that it contains the buttons.

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I even uploaded it to my comcast webpage


How did you "upload" the files? If you used ftp or any other method than "publishing" with FrontPage, components like navigation will not work properly

If you published with FP, one thing to try is Menu bar > Tools > Recalculate Hyperlinks.

If that doesn't work, try removing the Nav bar and then reinserting it.



designerNOTdev -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (1/3/2008 17:52:17)

Ive encountered a similar error and its breaking my heart! Literally.
Details: I have a large site (around 300 pages) and they share a common nav that I created in FP (man I'll never use this feature again).
Locally its all hunky dory, all the nav is intact.
As soon as publish is complete, the nav is all gone.

Some interesting things Ive noticed.
Once or twice DURING publish I was able to check on a top level page and saw the nav, but upon refresh it disappeared - its as if upon completion, something overwrites the nav part.

Some things Ive tried:
Ive diff'd the webbot code of the local vs. webserver pages and they are exactly the same.
Ive had the ISP reinstall FP SE's.
Ive removed everything and only published the top nav.
I have looked at the sturcture in Navigation view and they dont look anything like each other. I have not been able to recreate the nav structure in Navigation view exactly as it appears locally.

Possible causes?
Though I use the same ISP for several other sites composed in FP, using other FP webbot features like forms etc, which all work perfectly well, I did notice the webserver is an Apache server. Could this be an issue?

I just dont understand how the webbot code matches, yet the family tree in Navigation view is completely gone when publish is compelte.
Help..... im sinking rapidly.....
URL is www.alcastgroup.com
Nav is ''Supposed'' to be visible within the Dark Blue bar below the main/large picture top of the page.



designerNOTdev -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (1/3/2008 20:10:14)

been playing around with this one some more.
Working off the live site and within FP, while in Navigation view I created new pages from scratch to mirror my top level nav, copied the code (in code view) into these new pages and overwrote the old pages. So far this appears to be working.
Ill press on down to the lower levels tomorrow to ensure it works right thru.



d a v e -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (1/4/2008 1:59:04)

designerNOTdev - you might want to checkk how you have 'customers' in your header graphic ;)



designerNOTdev -> RE: Navigation bar publish problems (1/4/2008 3:35:23)

muchos gracias for the proof reading dave



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