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Posted by Jafar As-Sadiq Calley on 09/08/05 14:18
Amos E Wolfe wrote:
> "Jay Peterman" <biteme@thelibrary.stupid> wrote in message
> news:52urh1hoa1v7im2f6jsu40relgssiedk3e@4ax.com...
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>>On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:17:03 +0200, Jafar As-Sadiq Calley
>><jafar@home.org> wrote:
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>>>Jay Peterman wrote:
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>>>>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. ;)
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>>Thanks Jafar. I'm not having problems uploading now.
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>>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.
>
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> 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".
Wow. MS Office does seem to make a huge mess of things. Might I suggest
for doing fairly simple pages like this, you should try Mozilla. It
includes an easy to use WYSIWYG html editor and it creates far cleaner
code that can understand if you need to edit by hand later on.
The links contained in my sig were created with Mozilla Composer if you
want to see an example :)
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