Re: Can I rename the home page from index.htm?
- From: "DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:35:27 -0800
Two more things.
Sometimes you can insert a fill color in a text box and get it to work...I
haven't been able to figure out the rule yet, and you just have to test to
see if it converts you text to an image. If it does, then use the workaround
of putting a second color filled text box behind the plain one. Also some
plain borders work where 'fancy' ones don't. Just test...
Don't use the Master Page feature...another feature that works great for
print docs, but messes things up with web publications.
Nuff said...
DavidF
"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for posting back. I am glad you figured that out.
As per working through the rest of your site to get it to look the same in
both IE and FF, I offered just a couple of the most common reasons for the
pages to render differently that showed up on your home page. If those
methods don't work then look at how you have the text and the paragraphs
formatted. The basic problem is that there are things you can do with a
printed page that you can not do with a Publisher web page. The print
formatting just does not convert to html. As Maureen pointed out, word
wrap around pictures does not work in a web page. Special line spacing of
more than normal, indents, bulleted lists, etc are all likely to result in
your pages rendering inconsistently with different browsers. Sometimes the
only thing you can do is to strip off the special formatting and work with
just manually inserting special characters and symbols instead of bullets,
use both regular and hard returns, only single line spacing, don't use
"fancy" borders...they can also result in the text box converting to an
image, but once again you can put the fancy borders on a second text box
and put that text box behind the first. Note you can also insert fill
color into code fragment boxes sometimes. Etc, etc....the point is now
that you have FireFox and know how to test your pages in both IE and FF,
once you figure out what you can and cannot do you should be able to get
your pages looking good in both browsers, and as a result they will also
look good in Opera, Safari and Chrome...or at least this has been the
general rule we have found. Have fun and just realize that you are working
in two mediums...print and web and sometimes you just have to change your
formatting, design or layout in order to get the effect you want and cross
browser compatibility.
Post back if you can't figure something out...for the most part we have
been able to figure out how to work around most all the cross browser
issues.
DavidF
"reiki plus" <reikiplus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi David,
It turns out that the problem was with my server. Some time ago they had
problems and changed how to upload to them. However, they did not send
this
info out to me so I have been continueing to upload as I had been before.
I
had been making the changes to the title as recommended as well as some
of
the changes that you recommended for compatibility formatting only to
find
that none of my changes have been overwriting the old files. I trouble
shooted this with the person who originally set up my site and who also
uses
the same server as me and he identified that I was not following the new
upload format. He identified where my problem was.....all of the changes
I
had been making were infact there but not loaded into the newly named
file
that my server wanted me to load into. Needless to say hours of making
changes was not to no avail. Alls I had to do was delet the file with my
changes that was sitting on the server, upload my changes again to the
new
file name and voila, there are all of my changes. Yup, the name of my
home
page is now as I want it to be :)
I followed your advice and down loaded FF to view my changes as I go
along.
I have started to enact some small format changes and test the waters on
my
first page. As you suggested, I took the fill color out of the text boxes
that contain links at the bottom of this page, created another identical
size
text box, placed it over the first, filled it with my color and then sent
it
to the back and voila, my links in that text box now work in FF!!! This
is
just the start of the task to make changes to all of my pages but it
looks
like your advice will serve me well as the tester that I did on my first
page
has worked well. I printer out your advice and will follow it to make
further
adjustments. I can't tell you how relieved I am that the changes are
working
and that I am seeing the changes now on FF. Thank you very much.
"DavidF" wrote:
You have not changed the title in the code of your home page. Look at
your
site: http://www.reikibc.com/ Now go to view > source. Here is the first
part of the html code for the page:
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<link rel=File-List href="index_files/filelist.xml">
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
b\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
..shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<meta name="description" content="Reiki and Shamanic Healing">
<meta name="keywords"
content="Holistic Healing, Reiki, Shamanism, Animal Reiki, Reiki
Workshops,
Shamanic Workshops, Animal Reiki Workshops">
<title>Index.htm</title>
<style>
<!--
-----------
Notice That the title is still 'Index.htm'. As a result when you try to
save
this as a Favorite, you are going to get that as the name.
Once again go to Tools > Web Page Options and change the Page title.
Save
the change, Publish to the Web and produce new html files, and upload
the
new index.htm file and the new index_files folder. Note...it is possible
that you have not been successfully overwriting the old index.htm file
on
your server. Either delete the old files on the server, or rename the
"index.htm" file on your web server to "index.old", and then upload the
new
file.
Bottom line is until you change the code on your home page to something
other than "<title>Index.htm</title>" then you are going to continue to
get
"Index.htm" for the name to be saved when you try to save as a favorite.
And don't forget that the page title is different for each page...
DavidF
<snip>
I redid the process as follows ....open pub.doc>tools>web page
option>confirmed correct text in title box>ok>within pub.doc saved
changes>published to the web>opened browser>opened website (not
from
cache)>saved to favorites>opened fav list...still says index.htm.
I feel like I am going around in a circle trying to resolve this.
Before I
entered the tread with this problem I had actually tried this method
and
it
had not worked then either. I thought I may have missed a stage so
have
very
carefully followed your directions and still there is no change.
I see that the address bar reads correctly as reikibc.com, but the tab
that
opens says index.htm. Right now I have two tabs open; discussion
groups
home
(this site) and my site. The tab for this discussion group reads
"Discussion
Groups Home" and my tab reads Index.htm! I wonder if I have not
conveyed
my
problem correctly. I want my tab to NOT say index.htm but rather I
would
prefer my business name Spirit Works Holistic Healing so that when it
is
saved to favs it will say my business name. I think that is what I
have
been
saying all along but maybe in the off chance that is not what I have
said
then you can now point me in the right direction.
.
.
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