How do i fix my home page?

Blackwater21 · #1 February 5th, 2003, 04:57 AM

Something happend to my homepage on my website. It seems as though there is no border on the right hand side. It makes it very hard to read because you have to scroll across the page to read it. What's frustruating is that the rest of the pages are fine.

By the way, it is built with MS Frontpage 2000.

Any advice in appreciated.

Feel free to check out my website on the link on my profile below, if it will help.

Steven.Bentley · #2 February 5th, 2003, 09:48 PM

This is the reason why Frontpage has a bad name

I've spent a good half hour playing with this code and I couldn't find out what was wrong with it.

So in utter frustration I recoded the page by hand - uploaded it in the next post (forgot that I could do that

)

Steven.Bentley · #3 February 5th, 2003, 10:09 PM

.txt file.. rename to index.htm

Blackwater21 · #4 February 6th, 2003, 04:29 AM

Thanks for the help. I don't know what happened that caused the page to extend of the right margin boundries. It was fine for two years. This morning i fixed it by putting the content within a single cell, table. It has solved my problem for now.

Dashwood95 · #5 February 6th, 2003, 06:06 PM

Well I'm betting FP left an open tag or something. It's notorious for that and for bloated code. If you care to repost a link to the original code, I'd take a look. And I've got to agree with the wise Steven.Bentley with regards to FP. It's great for people who need to code in a flash, but once you learn HTML (and plse try. it's fun!) you will never understand how you got by with FP.

Theoran · #6 February 6th, 2003, 06:39 PM

I know what you mean Dashie. The Ramblings of Theoran was up
for an entire year using Front Page. Then, one day I just couldn't
brag about my site since all I really did was type some words. I
re-wrote all 75 pages in notepad and now I can brag. I can also
do more like add java applets, and other weird stuff that I couldn't
using FrontPage.

Blackwater21 · #7 February 7th, 2003, 05:10 PM

I hear ya on the writing your own html stuff. The problem is that I'm not a Web designer. I'm a fishing guide and spend 10-12 hour a day either on the water or fixing my boats. However, i still want to be able to update my own webpage on a moments notice. I know some guides that pay webmaster to maintain and update their websites. I like to be more "in control" of what is going on with my site.

I will probably start playing around with some html on a practice site in the off season.

Dashwood95 · #8 February 9th, 2003, 03:52 PM

Well that's a good reason not to solely code in HTML, but I can recommend a really good and easy to follow book on HTML. You can learn it to fix your code and still use an editor for convenience. If that's the reason, I think a lot of us can recommend more efficient ones starting with Dreamweaver. They all have faults, but just about anything is better than FP.

This one (here) is the newest one with XHTML and CSS discussed more. The one I started off with was this one. The entire "Visual Quickstart Guide" line is good. I've got or had about 7 of them.

Steven.Bentley · #9 February 9th, 2003, 09:41 PM

I have no problem with Dreamweaver, certainly not when Frontpage is the alternative

wllwnn · #10 February 10th, 2003, 02:10 AM

U like to Use Flash and Dreamweaver. Flash makes all my butons and sidebar suff. Plus it enhances ur site by makin it look pretty

Dreamweaver has so many shortcuts that it taks 0 effort to make a page.

Steven.Bentley · #11 February 10th, 2003, 09:39 PM

I think

Quote:

0 effort to make a page.

is overstating it somewhat

Blackwater21 · #12 February 11th, 2003, 06:32 AM

Dreamweaver sounds interesting. Where can i find out more about it?

I really hate to mess with things since my page comes up extremely good on almost all of the search engines. I guess i could build another website and the keep the one i have going.

Steven.Bentley · #13 February 11th, 2003, 08:42 PM

try www.macromedia.com - they make it