Frontpage layout is altered when published

[Ben Livneh]

I have set up a Frontpage webpage, which when I preview it (in .htm) looks
perfect. Then, when I publish it using .ftp, the formating is completely
altered, all the text disappears and it shrinks. Why does this happen?
What do I need to do, to make sure that the preview matches the published
page?

your help is truly appreciated!

 

[Ronx]

Please give a link to the published page.

 

[somebody]

The FTP should not affect the layout of the site. Assuming that all
the files are transferred correctly, the browser will largely
determine its representation on the screen. Sites will look different
when viewed with different browsers, versions and operating under
different OS.

What's the URL of the site?

Roger

 

[Ben Livneh]

Dear Ronx,

Thank you for your reply. The website is www.impactengineeringcorp.com.
When you visit the site, you will see only the top and bottom borders without
any of the content or text. I uploaded it using 'Publish Web' to
ftp://impactengineeringcorp.com/impactengineeringcorp.com
This problem is alarming, and I wonder if it can be fixed by adjusting a
setting/option?

My best regards,

Ben Livneh

 

[Ben Livneh]

Dear Roger,

Thank you for your reply. The website is www.impactengineeringcorp.com.
When you visit the site, you will see only the top and bottom borders without
any of the content or text. I uploaded it using 'Publish Web' to
ftp://impactengineeringcorp.com/impactengineeringcorp.com
This problem is alarming, and I wonder if it can be fixed by adjusting a
setting/option?

My best regards,

Ben Livneh

 

[Ben Livneh]

Dear Ronx,

Thank you for your reply. The website is www.impactengineeringcorp.com.
When you visit the site, you will see only the top and bottom borders without
any of the content or text. I uploaded it using 'Publish Web' to
ftp://impactengineeringcorp.com/impactengineeringcorp.com
This problem is alarming, and I wonder if it can be fixed by adjusting a
setting/option?

My best regards,

Ben Livneh

 

[Ronx]

I see you fixed it. The page is displaying all four borders and
content.

 

[somebody]

I see you got it working - I was away from the newsgroup for a couple of days.

Roger

 

[Cheryl D Wise]

You have a whole lot of Microsoft Word code in there, which can cause
display issues particular on browsers other than IE.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE:
13pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">
Our Engineers are ready to visit your facility and offer you the right
solution
for your recycling machinery needs!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b>
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-VARIANT:
small-caps">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
All you really need there is:
<p style="font: Garamond, san-serif 13pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Our
Engineers are ready to visit your facility and offer you the right solution
for your recycling machinery needs!</p>

However I would not recommend using Garamond on the web or having all the
text on your page displayed in small caps because all caps are hard for many
people to read and Garamond is not going ot be available on all computers.
By the same token pts are a unit of print measurement and should not be usd
on web pages since they do not scale in IE.

You really need to clean up the content stuff like this causes lots of
issues:

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">USA:</span></u><span
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b></p>

This should be <p>USA</p>

Then at the bottom of the page you have a large number of <p>&nbsp;</p>
that give you a lot of whitespace.

I see content but it is rather sparse, what is missing?

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