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Posted by Jay Peterman on 09/08/05 16:05
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:46:58 GMT, "Amos E Wolfe"
<amos.wolfe@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>"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.
>>>
>>>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!
Thank you Amos. I visited the page and downloaded it. I'll give the
copy and paste thing a shot. I appreciate your time.
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