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Posted by Amos E Wolfe on 09/08/05 01:46
"Jay Peterman" <biteme@thelibrary.stupid> wrote in message
news:52urh1hoa1v7im2f6jsu40relgssiedk3e@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:17:03 +0200, Jafar As-Sadiq Calley
> <jafar@home.org> wrote:
>
>>Jay Peterman wrote:
>>> Last year I had a site that for which I wrote most of the HTML. It was
>>> a simple site for a fantasy football league. I used Charter to host
>>> it. Now I can't remember how to use an FTP client (don't laugh
>>> it's been a year and I tried a couple different ones) to upload my
>>> files.
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>>You can use IE as an ftp client. Just type ftp://username@ftp.site.com
>>into the address bit.
>>
>>> I uploaded my old index.html file and when I went to the website
>>> there it was in text. I know that I have to change the ref lines but
>>> wouldn't the background and text display if they were common fonts
>>> and colors? Would anyone tell me what I need to scour the index.html
>>> file for in order for it to display? Thank you.
>>
>>A link to it would be nice. ;)
>
> Thanks Jafar. I'm not having problems uploading now.
>
>
> The link is waffle06.com
>
> The files are not where the refs point to anymore because like I said
> I've moved everything since then.
>
> Thanks again.
I think I've found the root of the problem. Somehow when creating the page
(header name Microsoft Office) the software has converted each html tag into
< and > with the result that the "output" version of the page displays
as html code. What makes it so is quite different - a huge number of <span>
tags defining each line of the "code".
Just do a view-source and you will see what I mean.
If you copy and paste what you see in your browser (not the view-source) and
than paste it into notepad then save it - that should display. Of course you
may need to do other things like making sure it validates, etc.
I have done just this and uploaded the result here:
http://www.vintagetransport.org.uk/temp01.html - feel free to save that file
but be warned (google archives, etc.) it will not be there forever.
HINT: change the backslashes in the link URLs into forward slashes!
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