Web Page Development

[mgriggs]

I have created a web page using Word: mac version X and uploaded it to
the Road Runner server. When I opened to my home page, the jpeg photo
is missing and the characters (i.e. apostrophes, etc.) are changed to
other symbols. The centering is also off. I don't know what would cause
these problems nor how to correct them. Can you offer advice? Thank
you very much. Miriam

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have created a web page using Word: mac version X and uploaded it to
the Road Runner server. When I opened to my home page, the jpeg photo
is missing and the characters (i.e. apostrophes, etc.) are changed to
other symbols.

They will only be fine in IE. Special characters are not encoded using
th HTML standards and are notoriously problematic when you generate a
page through Word.

The centering is also off. I don't know what would cause
these problems nor how to correct them. Can you offer advice? Thank
you very much. Miriam

Word generates IE only code (quite complex code, but that matches
perfectly the layout in the page if you use IE). If you want something
that works on al lbrowsers, you'll be better of using a dedicated HTML
editor. You can try Nvu, it's free.

http://www.nvu.com/

Corentin

 

[matt neuburg]

I have created a web page using Word: mac version X and uploaded it to
the Road Runner server. When I opened to my home page, the jpeg photo
is missing and the characters (i.e. apostrophes, etc.) are changed to
other symbols. The centering is also off. I don't know what would cause
these problems nor how to correct them. Can you offer advice?

The characters being changed to other symbols could just be an encoding
problem. All HTML pages should have a meta tag stating what the encoding
is. I bet your page wouldn't pass validation at the w3c validator. Make
valid HTML and you won't have problems like this. But of course if you
want valid HTML then you mustn't make Web pages with Word, which
couldn't make a valid Web page even if you held a gun to its head. m.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The characters being changed to other symbols could just be an encoding
problem. All HTML pages should have a meta tag stating what the encoding
is.

It most definitively is. Word does not add proper type declaration and
encoding headers toits pages.

Corentin