Front Page and other browsers

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ScottyB

I have published a site w/ FrontPage 2002 and noticed that people with
browsers other than Explorer can not view it properly. I undersatnd that some
browsers my not recognize the font style, therefore setting a different font.
However, my concern is that in browsers such as Mozilla or Opera, they can
not access hyperlinks. The hyperlinked text also does not show up underlined.
Of couse, there isn't a link there so that's probably why.

I have made sure that I have designated "Custom" in both the browser and
server boxes in compatibility.
 
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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP

To make a site compatible with the largest number of browsers, you have to
choose one of the "least common denominator" options in compatibility.
Underlines are normal in hyperlinks, so I am not certain why they would
disappear, unless there is a setting in Mozilla/Opera to turn them off (been
awhile since I wrote for a wide browser spectrum (mostly Intranet now)). If
you are using StyleSheets, you can have differences, as different browsers
support different aspects of CSS. Basic font handling should be fine however.

If you have a link to the site, someone might have better feedback on your
issue.


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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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Stephen Green

I've had a similar problem with FireFox. The underlines are there, but FF
doesn't see the link. There is nothing in the Status Bar when hovering over
the "link".

Here is a page with several links that FF doesn't see:

http://www.anmt.org/panzer.asp

Here is what View Source displays for the first link:

<a href="panzer_order_form.asp"><font color="#000080">CLICK HERE AND
PRINT FORM</font></a>
Does anyone know what's going on?Stephen"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP"
 
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Ronx

The HTML code in that page is so bad the VML graphics does not even show in
IE6. I am surprised that ANY links work at all.
 
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Stephen Green

Yes, I had to use a flyer created in Publisher. What a mess of code it
makes. It was too difficult (and time consuming) to edit, so I included the
whole flyer in a cell on the final page.

Stephen
 
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Ronx

That page contains two <head> sections and two <body> sections.

I suggest you start again.

Take a screen dump of your flyer - in Publisher, open the flyer, click
anywhere in the document, then use Alt+PrtSc to copy the window to the
clipboard.
Open a graphics editor and paste the image.
Crop, size and optimise for the web. Save the image as a .jpg to your
desktop.

Open FrontPage and import the image.

Layout the page using a 2 column table, merge into a single cell on the left
for the image, and rows as required on the right for the text and links.
Avoid text boxes and word art (for word art, again paste it into a graphics
editor and produce a conventional image), which use VML graphics and are
only visible in IE5.5 and later running on Windows.

*Never* use Publisher for creating web pages. It really is not worth the
hassle.
 

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