Navigation bar not appearing

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

I have Front Page 2003 and have had my host put the Front Page Server
Extentions on my website. After three days of trying I still cannot get the
navigation bar to show up on my website, though it shows fine in preview and
design views. When I look in the code view it shows the code but it is grey
and not highlighted.

What am I doing wrong and how can I get my navigation to show up on the
webpages.

Angela
FoxMoon Productions
www.MerfolkTails.com
Making Mer-Dreams Come True

Rob Giordano \(Crash\) · Oct 28, 2005

Why do you have all the html for the page in white font color listed below
The Big White Square?

How are you Publishing the web/site to the server.
Navigation is visible on some pages, but it's kinda hard to follow the
structure of this site.

|I have Front Page 2003 and have had my host put the Front Page Server
| Extentions on my website. After three days of trying I still cannot get
the
| navigation bar to show up on my website, though it shows fine in preview
and
| design views. When I look in the code view it shows the code but it is
grey
| and not highlighted.
|
| What am I doing wrong and how can I get my navigation to show up on the
| webpages.
|
| Angela
| FoxMoon Productions
| www.MerfolkTails.com
| Making Mer-Dreams Come True
|

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

Ignore that front page and the white, it was just me fiddling with things to
see how it worked.

The next page, when you click to enter the site.
www.Merfolktails.com/merfolk.html is where my concern starts. I am trying to
do a real navigation bar using Front Page 2003 's web components for the
navigation bar. I am publishing everything to the remote website through the
Front Page 2003 Publishing options as I am supposed to do.

The pages that there is navigation on are the old pages, where I put the
links in by hand. No navigation bar was used for those, therefore I had to
change each page's navigation individually in order to add or delete a link.

I know it is confusing right now but it is in a transition and I am trying
to make it less confusing by adding a real navigation system to it. However,
it is not working as I cannot get it to show up.

Angela

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

The code that Front Page 2003 gives me when I go

Insert >Navigation> LinkBars> Bar with Custom Links

is this:



It appears that Front Page is confusing itself somehow because the code is
grey and inactive. However, in the preview and design views it shows the bar,
graphics and links just fine, but when I publish, they disappear.

Rob Giordano \(Crash\) · Oct 28, 2005

Did you create your navigation structure in Navigation? Add the pages there.

| The code that Front Page 2003 gives me when I go
|
| Insert >Navigation> LinkBars> Bar with Custom Links
|
| is this:
|
| 
|
| It appears that Front Page is confusing itself somehow because the code is
| grey and inactive. However, in the preview and design views it shows the
bar,
| graphics and links just fine, but when I publish, they disappear.

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

Yes, and I quoteth " Insert >Navigation> LinkBars> Bar with Custom Links."
Once done with that I incert the proper links in the box it asks for and then
go to the navigation view to edit them. I do everything it requests and it
shows up and works fine in the preview and design views.. it just will not
work once it is published.

It's like as soon as I publish it it goes *POOF* and plays invisible on the
site though it shows in the preview.

When I look at it in code view the code is grey and states exactly what I
put in my last post.

I am despirate to get the site working properly. I have been without a
proper site for 4 days now, which is causing damage to the potential of
customers.

Please somebody tell me why Front Page is not giving me good codes?

Ronx · Oct 28, 2005

The code on www.Merfolktails.com/merfolk.html is invalid.

<table border="5" cellpadding="0" width="820" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<tr></center><! --webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="sequence"
S-Orientation="horizontal" S-Rendering="graphics" B-Include-Home="FALSE"
B-Include-Up="FALSE" U-Page="sid:1001" -->
</center>
<td width="808" bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" height="21">
What's
New!</td>
</tr>

would be better as
<table border="5" cellpadding="0" width="820" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<tr>
<td><! --webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="sequence"
S-Orientation="horizontal" S-Rendering="graphics" B-Include-Home="FALSE"
B-Include-Up="FALSE" U-Page="sid:1001" -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="808" bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" height="21">
What's
New!</td>
</tr>

More importantly, according to the <meta> tag
<meta name="GENERATOR " content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
the page was last edited or published using FrontPage 2000.
FP 2000 does not understand custom link bars.

Stefan B Rusynko · Oct 28, 2005

You have badly mangled html that you have somehow edited
- FP does not generate nav bars in TR tags or illegal tables and you have edited the webbot to add a space
- And your page ends without a </body></html> tag

For Example You have at the top
<table border="5" cellpadding="0" width="820" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<tr></center>
<! --webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="sequence" S-Orientation="horizontal" S-Rendering="graphics" B-Include-Home="FALSE"
B-Include-Up="FALSE" U-Page="sid:1001" -->
</center>
<td width="808" bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" height="21">

What's New!</td></tr>

And should have something more like
<table border="5" cellpadding="0" width="820" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<tr><td width="808" bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr>
<td width="808" bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" height="21">

What's New!</td></tr>

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| Yes, and I quoteth " Insert >Navigation> LinkBars> Bar with Custom Links."
| Once done with that I incert the proper links in the box it asks for and then
| go to the navigation view to edit them. I do everything it requests and it
| shows up and works fine in the preview and design views.. it just will not
| work once it is published.
|
| It's like as soon as I publish it it goes *POOF* and plays invisible on the
| site though it shows in the preview.
|
| When I look at it in code view the code is grey and states exactly what I
| put in my last post.
|
| I am despirate to get the site working properly. I have been without a
| proper site for 4 days now, which is causing damage to the potential of
| customers.
|
| Please somebody tell me why Front Page is not giving me good codes?
|
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| > Did you create your navigation structure in Navigation? Add the pages there.
|

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

And therein lays the problem. I have not changed any of the Html code. This
is what Front Page has generated. I am now using Front Page 2003 after
upgrading a few months ago. I no longer use 2000. I have republished the
pages more times than I can count now and I get the same thing.

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

The Nav bar is supposed to be between the table and the scroll bar, not in
the table, not at the top of the page.. I insert the nav bar and I get dead
code from Front Page that shows up in my previews but not on the site.

I have deleted them and reinserted them, I am now republishing them as they
are generated without any changing of the code. This is what I get straight
from Front Page 2003:

</div>

</body></html>

Stefan B Rusynko · Oct 28, 2005

I guarantee you FP 2003 does not generate the mangled code I see in your pages
- unless you have been dragging things around in code view or pasting away and deleting things or being very careless in design view
on what tags you delete
And publishing does not change your code
- Check it in Tools Browser Compatibility

If it really is generating that code (which I doubt) run a reinstall / repair of it

--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/FrontPageNewsGroups/tabid/53/Default.aspx
_____________________________________________

|
|
| And therein lays the problem. I have not changed any of the Html code. This
| is what Front Page has generated. I am now using Front Page 2003 after
| upgrading a few months ago. I no longer use 2000. I have republished the
| pages more times than I can count now and I get the same thing.

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

Let me delete the whole page and redo it. Give me about 15 minutes. I will
create a whole new page and incert the navigation.

I do not mess with anything in the code view because I don't know anything
about code. I merely do my work in the design view.

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

I started a new page. I have not touched the code view. All I did was open
new page, insert navigation and save.

www.merfolktails.com/navtest.htm

Thomas A. Rowe · Oct 28, 2005

Have you added this page to your navigation view (structure)?

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FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

Thomas A. Rowe said:
Have you added this page to your navigation view (structure)?

It is in my navigation view under my main navigation bar.

Just as a side note, I do not know much about Front Page. Only what I have
learned on my own as I did not get a book with my program that I bought from
Office Depot. I've had to learn on my own.

Am I supposed to be doing something different with the navigation view?

Thomas A. Rowe · Oct 28, 2005

When I view your test page in FP, I get the following message:
[The Navigation Bar feature is not available in this web]

Try the following open the live/remote site directly in FP via File Menu | Open Site and then enter
your URL and login info, then click Ok, then click Open. Next check your navigation structure, and
then try adding pages, etc., then run Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks.

FYI: The FP manual is part of the FP Help system, and connected directly to the Office online.

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

Alright, when I go to file/open site I see my folder with my web (the little
globe) as the folder I am in.. in this folder is the _derived folder,
_private folder and images folder.. if I go down to site name and type in
www.Merfolktails.com I get a notification that it is not accessable.

What should I do to fix this?

Angela
P.S. Sorry for being a bother here, but I'm trying to figure out what to do.
I need a manual step by step instruction booklet. lol

FoxMoon · Oct 28, 2005

I figured that part out.. I forgot my http:// part.. so I'm in that.. I've
added my links to the navigation bar now. Let's see if this works.

if I go down to site name and type in

Stefan B Rusynko · Oct 29, 2005

I see you have your nav bar working now

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_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/FrontPageNewsGroups/tabid/53/Default.aspx
_____________________________________________

|I figured that part out.. I forgot my http:// part.. so I'm in that.. I've
| added my links to the navigation bar now. Let's see if this works.
|
|
|
| if I go down to site name and type in
| > www.Merfolktails.com I get a notification that it is not accessable

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