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Posted by Jay Peterman on 09/10/05 00:59
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:18:31 +0200, Jafar As-Sadiq Calley
<jafar@home.org> wrote:
>Amos E Wolfe 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".
>
>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 :)
I stopped using MS Office for this. I used Wordpad. I've still got
some tinkering to change colors, etc. but I think I'm headed in the
right direction. I might give Mozilla Composer a shot though.
Thanks again for your help.
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