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Posted by John Hosking on 10/02/07 21:41
antonisa wrote:
> I am using Google translation tool and I would like to translate a
> website of mine.
> My website address is the following: http://www.georgeashiotis.com
>
> After the translation, when all the related folders and files are
> kept (save) on my computer's desktop, I can see the translated text
> perfectly and the results are fantastic!
Really? Well, maybe the translator works perfectly. (I don't know it.)
>
> On the contrary, when I upload these translated folders and files on
> the web, using frontpage, the outcome is different. The text,
> banners, links, icons, photos are all mixed up and are not in their
> right positions.
Yes, the markup is mangled. This isn't the worst of it:
<a href="http://www.agora-gallery.com/" target="_blank" >Click
here</a> ><img border="0"
Looks like FrontPage is mangling your code for you. No extra charge!
(The mangling is mostly that each instance of > should be a >, and
each instance of > should be a <.)
>
> Also , at the home page of my website, on the left side before the
> banner (link) named "AGORA", there is an unneccesary tag <> and I
> don't know how to remove it.
In FrontPage, open the page in question, then click on the HTML tab at
the bottom to view the actual code. Then replace all of this:
<%@ Language=Inherit from Web %> <html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>George Ashiotis Web Site</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">
<title>Untitled</title>
<title>Untitled</title>
<title>Untitled</title>
with this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>George Ashiotis Web Site</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Description" content="">
Feel free to fill in a description in that last meta element; some
search engines use that text when they return your page in a list of
search results.
Save the changes to your file.
Some may say that the next step after replacing that code is to replace
your HTML editor, but I started with FrontPage, and I learned a lot
because I studied what it did and figured out how to correct the many,
many things it did wrong.
Your code is still not valid but may show up, more or less, on several
common browsers (or not). If that's good enough for you, okay. But
seeing this result of what I take to be a combination of FrontPage and
Google translation, I can imagine you wanting to get either a manual
translator you can trust not to mangle your HTML, a Web professional who
knows how to make good code, or both. Good luck.
--
John
Still pondering the value of the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/
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