Content of shared left border is showing up as 2 columns instead of 1

Sam Bryan · Nov 24, 2009

Can someone tell me what they think is going on with my website www.wpcdurham.org?

I am using FP 2003, Windows XP sp3.

The problem shows up in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome

The website has a Left Shared Border with a navigation bar and some text at bottom.

I edit the website directly on the remote server.

I have been doing this for years w/o any problems.

An hour ago the website was fine.

I made 1 change. I copy/paste'd a pdf file into a folder I created and added a hyperlink to an image to point to that file.

I did a Save and after that, as you can see, I get TWO columns with the navigation bar and text for the "left border". You see 2 columns when you browse the website and also when you edit it with FP.

Does anyone know what is going on here and how to fix it?

ADDITIONAL INFO

The same thing happened yesterday. I made a simple change that had nothing to do with the border and got the 2 columns. I then deleted the text at the bottom of the right column. Then what happened was really serious - after I did a Save the home page had 3 columns and NOTHING else. The links all worked OK.

I did not have a local copy of the site (I am editing the remote site along with another person.), so I had the hosting service restore the website files to 2 days earlier. Everything of course was OK after the restoration - that is until I made the change I described.

Any ideas of what caused the multiple columns of content in the left shared border? Or how to fix the problem so that I have only 1 column. I am afraid to touch it now.

By the way I have tried to Publish the remote website to a local folder, but this is a large site and it times out after 60 seconds, with error message "The server "" timed out. The current request did not complete successfully."

Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Sam

Below is the content of the remote server file /public_html/_borders/left.htm

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<title>Shared Left Border</title>

<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none, default">

<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFCB">

 

<a href="../recent_updates.htm">Recent Updates 11-</a><a href="../recent_updates.htm">24</a> 





All material copyright 2005. 

Westminster Presbyterian Church 

Durham, North Carolina 

 

(919)489-4974 

For staff e-mail call # above 

or <a href="mailto:[email protected]">e-mail Mary Beth</a> 

 

Comments, corrections and suggestions about this website are welcome. 

<a id="spamspoiler_ph1" style="color: blue">E-mail Web

assistant</a>

<script language="JavaScript">

var userTo = 'sam';

var domainTo = 'durhambryans.com';

var userCC = '';

var domainCC = '';

var userBCC = '';

var domainBCC = '';

var subject = '(wpcduham)';

var body = '';

document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + escape(userTo) + '@' + escape(domainTo) + '?subject=' + escape(subject) + '\">E-mail Web assistant</a>');

var ssDiv = document.getElementById("spamspoiler_ph1");

ssDiv.style.display="none";

</script>

 

 

<img border="0" src="left.h7.gif" width="47" height="73">

</body>

</html>

Stefan B Rusynko · Nov 25, 2009

Your home page has 2 sets of body tags
- which is what is causing the duplicate shared border
Edit to delete all duplicate content (including the duplicate <body> and </body> tags

Can someone tell me what they think is going on with my website www.wpcdurham.org?

I am using FP 2003, Windows XP sp3.

The problem shows up in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome

The website has a Left Shared Border with a navigation bar and some text at bottom.

I edit the website directly on the remote server.

I have been doing this for years w/o any problems.

An hour ago the website was fine.

I made 1 change. I copy/paste'd a pdf file into a folder I created and added a hyperlink to an image to point to that file.

I did a Save and after that, as you can see, I get TWO columns with the navigation bar and text for the "left border". You see 2
columns when you browse the website and also when you edit it with FP.

Does anyone know what is going on here and how to fix it?

ADDITIONAL INFO

The same thing happened yesterday. I made a simple change that had nothing to do with the border and got the 2 columns. I then
deleted the text at the bottom of the right column. Then what happened was really serious - after I did a Save the home page had 3
columns and NOTHING else. The links all worked OK.

I did not have a local copy of the site (I am editing the remote site along with another person.), so I had the hosting service
restore the website files to 2 days earlier. Everything of course was OK after the restoration - that is until I made the change I
described.

Any ideas of what caused the multiple columns of content in the left shared border? Or how to fix the problem so that I have only 1
column. I am afraid to touch it now.

By the way I have tried to Publish the remote website to a local folder, but this is a large site and it times out after 60 seconds,
with error message "The server "" timed out. The current request did not complete successfully."

Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Sam

Below is the content of the remote server file /public_html/_borders/left.htm

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<title>Shared Left Border</title>

<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none, default">

<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFCB">

 

<a href="../recent_updates.htm">Recent Updates 11-</a><a href="../recent_updates.htm">24</a> 





All material copyright 2005. 

Westminster Presbyterian Church 

Durham, North Carolina 

 

(919)489-4974 

For staff e-mail call # above 

or <a href="mailto:[email protected]">e-mail Mary Beth</a> 

 

Comments, corrections and suggestions about this website are welcome. 

<a id="spamspoiler_ph1" style="color: blue">E-mail Web

assistant</a>

<script language="JavaScript">

var userTo = 'sam';

var domainTo = 'durhambryans.com';

var userCC = '';

var domainCC = '';

var userBCC = '';

var domainBCC = '';

var subject = '(wpcduham)';

var body = '';

document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + escape(userTo) + '@' + escape(domainTo) + '?subject=' + escape(subject) + '\">E-mail Web
assistant</a>');

var ssDiv = document.getElementById("spamspoiler_ph1");

ssDiv.style.display="none";

</script>

 

 

<img border="0" src="left.h7.gif" width="47" height="73">

</body>

</html>

Sam Bryan · Nov 29, 2009

Thanks for the response. That is very helpful.

Do you have any idea what could have caused the 2 Body Tag? I did all my
work in Design View, not HTML. I edit this website remotely directly on the
server, so I do a Save to do update pages. If I accidentally clicked Publish
could that have caused this problem? I have been editing this website for
years and have never hit this problem before.

Thanks again -- Sam

Stefan B Rusynko · Nov 29, 2009

No Publish won't cause it
- but broken html tags or incorrect pasting into code view will

Thanks for the response. That is very helpful.

Do you have any idea what could have caused the 2 Body Tag? I did all my
work in Design View, not HTML. I edit this website remotely directly on the
server, so I do a Save to do update pages. If I accidentally clicked Publish
could that have caused this problem? I have been editing this website for
years and have never hit this problem before.

Thanks again -- Sam

Sam Bryan · Nov 30, 2009

Thanks Stefan -- Sam

Stefan B Rusynko said:
No Publish won't cause it
- but broken html tags or incorrect pasting into code view will

Thanks for the response. That is very helpful.

Do you have any idea what could have caused the 2 Body Tag? I did all my
work in Design View, not HTML. I edit this website remotely directly on
the
server, so I do a Save to do update pages. If I accidentally clicked
Publish
could that have caused this problem? I have been editing this website for
years and have never hit this problem before.

Thanks again -- Sam

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