FrontPage in non-MS browsers

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dharma_bum56

I have been asked to troubleshoot an Internet site that was created in
FrontPage. It appears fine in the IE browser, but does not appear in the
Netscape or Mozilla Firefox browsers. I would like to put the pages in
Dreamweaver, with which I am more familiar. Would this be a solution? Is
there another way to make FrontPage compatible across browsers? What are the
extensions that FrontPage adds which cause this problem?

Thanks for your input.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

FP can be easily used to design pages that work in all browser, the issue is knowing what features
do not work in all browsers and then to not use them.

In order for any one to help you need to give us more details or a URL to the site in question with
the issues you are seeing.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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Mike Mueller

Fp doesn't add things that cause problems, but it will allow
you to use things that may.

Common Issues-
javascript
absolute positioning
CSS

dharma_bum56 wrote:
: I have been asked to troubleshoot an Internet site that
: was created in FrontPage. It appears fine in the IE
: browser, but does not appear in the Netscape or Mozilla
: Firefox browsers. I would like to put the pages in
: Dreamweaver, with which I am more familiar. Would this
: be a solution? Is there another way to make FrontPage
: compatible across browsers? What are the extensions that
: FrontPage adds which cause this problem?
:
: Thanks for your input.
 
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Murray

Opening the site/pages in Dreamweaver would not, in and of itself, solve
anything.

When a page does not display in a browser, it is absolutely diagnostic of
problems in the code, not of the HTML authoring system that created it. I'd
need to see the page to say more....
 
R

RJweb

yo murray, what are you doing on this side of the river,
did they close the bridge, i follow and learn all i can
from you in the dw and pvii fourms
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

In NS6 and NS7, the only thing showing on your home page is the red diamond, the same as what Murray
saw in FireFox.

Start over, get rid of the VML functions.

On your home page, add your text directly to the image, in a image/graphic application, then import
and insert into a table, then use the image map tool to create your hyperlinks.

On your inside pages, use tables.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

Right on Murray!
also it's about what GUI is comfortable to the user as well.
 
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dharma_bum56

Hi Thomas:

Thanks for your input. Is there any easy way to eliminate this code, or is
it a matter of just going through each page and manually deleting the code?

Best regards,
Patty
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You need to open each page and remove the VML items.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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