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holy_smokes -> HELP!, (all sorted now thanks) (3/14/2007 9:24:58)

Hi everyone, im new to this forum. I really need your help, I dont know what i have done but something has gone wrong.

I opened frontpage inserted a textbox from the drawing tool bar, i then saved the file frontpage application as "index.html". When i closed frontpage and when to open the folder which contained my index.html file it also contained a index_files folder, which has never happened before.

Before i added anything into frontpage



[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/codebefore.jpg[/IMG]



I then added a textbox



[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/html1.jpg[/IMG]



This is what the code looked like after i added the textbox, im sure something aint wright?



[img]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/aftertextbox.jpg[/img]



Had a look in the file where my index.html file would be. (i noticed a additional folder on the left)


[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/insidethefolder.jpg[/IMG]



This is what the index_file contained


[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/insideindexfile.jpg[/IMG]



When i go into the index_files folder, theres two files inside 1 is called filelist (xml file) and the other is the text box image001 (gif)? im confused!

Why isit doing this?

If anyone can help me i would be very greatful



jaybee -> RE: HELP!, Text box is making .gif file/folder..with pics explained (3/14/2007 12:25:58)

Delete the whole lot and start again. Don't use text boxes from the drawing tool bar for making web pages. They use MS image coordinates, bloat the code and don't work in some browsers. If you want to put boxes on a page and don't understand css then use tables.



holy_smokes -> RE: HELP!, Text box is making .gif file/folder..with pics explained (3/14/2007 12:38:27)

Hi, Thank you for your reply. I've removed it and installed it a few times, but it still keeps on making the annoying "index_files" folder which i know nothing about. It think it may have happened when i was messing around with the ftp.

I’m sure it’s something simple in the configuration that I need to click on.

I just want it to make a simple index.html file, nothing else :( I don’t know where to start I’m not too familiar with front page



jaybee -> RE: HELP!, Text box is making .gif file/folder..with pics explained (3/14/2007 13:05:11)

Open FrontPage
File > New >

Then choose Page or Web site. If you intend to add extra pages and link them together at a later date then choose web site.

The xml file you have in the graphic above seems to be linked in to Dreamweaver.



holy_smokes -> RE: HELP!, Text box is making .gif file/folder..with pics explained (3/14/2007 13:18:55)

Thanks i tried it without the text box, and used the normal way of typing front in a table and it didnt create the index_files folder :D.

One last thing, Im not sure if it should have this when I start up my dreamweaver, it has this in the code.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Thats what always comes up, does that have anything todo with the xml file? and do you get the same thing when you start up your dreamwaver?



[img]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i7/vw_tees/dreamwaver.jpg[/img]


cheers



jaybee -> RE: HELP!, Text box is making .gif file/folder..with pics explained (3/14/2007 16:34:34)

quote:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
That's a Doctype, all sites should have them to help the browser translate what the heck you're on about. If you don't have one then the browsers drop into quirks mode which basically means, they guess. It can cause all sorts of strange things to happen in your pages.

FrontPage never sticks one in automatically. The replacement for FP, Expression Web does.

That particular doctype says your page is written in XHTML Transitional code which is fine as long as it is.

You can tell if you look in the source code and any images the code line should look like

<img src="xxxxxxxxxxxx" xxx xxxxx />

The slash denotes the tag is properly closed. If it's not there then the code is HTML 4 and using the XHTML doctype will cause the browser to go "Whaaaaat!" and drop into quirks mode again.

There's a write up about doctypes here.

Oooo and very remiss of me..... welcome to Outfront.



holy_smokes -> RE: HELP!, at the bottom of the thread (3/14/2007 16:59:17)

Thanks jaybee, you have been a great help, you've cleared alot of things up :)

cheers



QueenY -> RE: HELP!, (all sorted now thanks) (4/10/2007 5:59:35)

I'm having very similar problem:

I have designed a website using Web Expressions Web Design which I have used before and no .._file folders.
This time it creates those folders and it's really annoying.

I have used "Insert Interactive Button"; could that be the reason? When I erase the folder (which I checked the html and found no link) the page is also erased :S
I'm completely at a loss. And I would really appreciate your help..

Thank you...



jaybee -> RE: HELP!, (all sorted now thanks) (4/10/2007 6:25:41)

Yes that's the problem. When you start sticking FP/EW automated stuff in then you're using dynamically generated stuff and both programs will start creating all their own files and folders to put them in. You also have to have FPSE/Sharepoint on your host for them to run. Stay away from the automated stuff if you can and you'll make your site more portable.



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