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samanand

August 29th, 2006, 07:19 PM

I made my first website for my friend's non-profit organisation using office2003 publisher and can't preview it on browsers other than IE. On IE everything is perfectly fine. But on opera everything is blank except for the background color. Without knowing I'm supposed to check my website with more than one browser I even launched the website www.devsportsacademy.org for my friend.The problem is I don't know any HTML so I don't know how to correct it.
I can't post the source for the site because its longer than the alotted 20000 characters. I'll be extremely grateful to anyone who can help me fix this error. Please remember this site belongs to a non-profit organisation.It is still browsable right now using IE. The first few lines of the source are pasted below.

<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">

<title>devsportsacademy</title>
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Times New Roman";
panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Arial;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Georgia;
panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{text-indent:0pt;
margin-left:0pt;
margin-right:0pt;
margin-top:0pt;
margin-bottom:9.0pt;
line-height:120%;
text-align:left;
font-family:Georgia;
font-size:9.15pt;
color:black;}
p.MsoOrganizationName, li.MsoOrganizationName, div.MsoOrganizationName
{text-indent:0pt;
margin-left:0pt;
margin-right:0pt;
margin-top:0pt;
margin-bottom:0pt;
text-align:left;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-size:15.0pt;
color:black;
font-weight:bold;
text-transform:uppercase;}
p.MsoBodyText3, li.MsoBodyText3, div.MsoBodyText3
{text-indent:0pt;
margin-left:0pt;
margin-right:0pt;
margin-top:0pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;
text-align:left;
font-family:Arial;
font-size:10.0pt;
color:black;}

degsy

August 29th, 2006, 07:32 PM

I'm not suprised. The office web pages are designed for Microsoft products only.

It would be pure luck if they displayed correctly, or at all, on other browsers.

You should look into learning HTML and use an editor that produces valid HTML code such as Dreamweaver.
Also checkout NVU and HTML Kit

samanand

August 29th, 2006, 07:49 PM

Oh,brother I'm into learning. Already into books on using dreamweaver and learning html and xhtml. And by the way which is more important or more used? But can't anything at all be done about this site?

Buzz

August 29th, 2006, 08:01 PM

xhtml is simply html extended. Learning xhtml will also entail learning html. The current web 2.0 trend is to use xhtml and CSS to get away from tabled layouts of standard html.

rockboy

August 29th, 2006, 09:38 PM

But can't anything at all be done about this site? Now that you have the site structure and content, you'd be best off starting over from scratch. Use one of the html editor clients recommended above and create new pages. Many people learn the hard way about MS software and the proprietary code it creates.

samanand

August 30th, 2006, 07:38 PM

Thanks all you guys for your input.One final thing though. For a starter like me which web designer is best suited? I got two designers(Adobe golive and dreamweaver8) though I don't yet know how to use them. Are there any other web designers more suited for a beginner like me?

Buzz

August 30th, 2006, 08:04 PM

That's quite a bit of money to spend on similar applications.

Dreamweaver is the top application. I , personally, dislike how GoLive builds sites. There are a ton of freeware and shareware applications that do a great job. In short ANYTHING will be better than a Microsoft product.

degsy

August 31st, 2006, 10:09 AM

Dreamweaver has a 30 day trial. I would recommend that you run through it's tutorials and help files which are pretty good.

If you like it then you can then decide if you want to purchase it. Dreamweaver is probably not worth the money for HTML, but it is if you want server-side scripting support, the best code view/editor and site wide maintenance/control.

samanand

August 31st, 2006, 11:19 AM

Boy that is an understatement alright. Anything's gotta be better than microsoft crap. Would've saved myself a lot o trouble had I known that before I built that website. Only hope others won't have to go thru the same s**t I've been thru. Thank you all once again for your responses. Over and out.