Site created in FP2003 -- IE vs FF

T

twillcox

www.lakejohnresort.com

This site was created for our business using FP2003, and we purchased the
program in order to be able to maintain site ourselves -- this is a must,
since we're providing current info on area conditions, pictures, etc.

On my computer, using IE7, everything works beautifully, pics & text in the
right places, links work. On FF, I can't even get site to load, and others
who are more experienced FF users say they can get individual pages to load,
but no links work.
I've reviewed other users questions/answers about this issue on this MS
community site, but unfortunately the answers are too technical for me to
understand. Trying to reduce my questions to the most relevant:

1. Are there any simple fixes for this problem?
2. What happens when using the <tools><optimize html> function in FP2003?
3. If I am able to get things working in FF, how will that affect
functionality in IE? 4. What does it mean that all VML graphics must be
removed? Does this mean that the "text box" and/or "interactive button"
features in FP2003 must all be deleted from the site? What can I use instead?

I am not a programmer or a developer of sites, nor do I want to be. I am a
business owner who wants to be able to take advantage of the web for
communicating with my customers in the most effective way. I was very happy
with the look, feel, and operation of the site when first presented with it,
and don't really want to change all of that. Can anybody out there help me?
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

The biggest problem, you turned on the Word Art. That's what is killing
things. The VML are the shapes you create from the drawing tools in FP 2003.
They're a no no if you want to work with other browsers because VML is IE
only. HTML doesn't have a feature like Text boxes, or actually many of the
features we would expect it to have as most people want HTML to have
capabilities like a Word doc does.

Basically though, anything you've done with the drawing toolbar needs to
come out. Gradient backgrounds and images are best done in a graphics
program as HTML doesn't have any features that would match this. There are a
few free graphics applications out there that you can find through Google or
Tucows.
 
G

Guest

The same here with IE6 & Opera. Let's try adding 4 lines of code to solve compatibility problem:

<html>
<head>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


Additional tips:
1. The above line 5 is continuation of line 4 in one single line of code.
2. Copy&Paste the above code on top of your code by first give it a space.
3. When you Copy&Paste back to FP some text are scrambled -- see sample below:

&lt;html&gt;<BR>&lt;head&gt;<BR>&lt;?xml version="1.0"
encoding="iso-8859-1"?&gt;<BR>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "<A
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd</A>"&gt;

4. Get ready to type & make changes and make it the same as it appear on very top code.
5. YES, Copy&Paste is ONLY one-way and good from FP to OE but NOT vice versa.

Our Agreement: If it work on your websites then my Congratulation! And if not -- just delete your first top 4 lines of codes. It
always worked on my websites using simple text and images,jpg ;o)

Hope it works,
-Rino
 

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