Baggy Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 I have tried to replace the 'old site' with the 'new' and a lot of the links aren't working. When clicking on a lot of the links, it says page can't be displayed. The way I did the transfer was (I think) as advised:- 'New_Work' folder was on the server and all working fine. I created a folder on the server called 'Old Site' and put all of the existing site files in that, by highlighting, dragging/dropping. I then highlighted/dragged/dropped all the files from 'New_work' to the Root Folder. Then I tested the site and found that it wasn't looking like the latest version, so I pressed the Synchronise button in Dreamweaver. The pages now appear in their latest 'livery' and I can access them in IE by typing their address but can't access a lot of them through the page links. What have I done wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Check the links as they appear in you code and see what the page is really looking for. Your paths may have changed with the moving, while the links haven't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggy Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Thelma, thanks for the response. I have discovered that most of the links still referred to the 'new_work' folder where I have been doing all the changes. I had nearly finished correcting all the errors/links, so have finished that job and put the corrected files (most of them!) to the server. Having checked it direct to the site address in Firefox and IE, it's mostly OK but still a couple of links aren't working. This is puzzling me because they look fine in Dreamweaver and aren't showing as broken in the checker?? Clearly, I should try to rectify these before 'publishing' - which I presume I still need to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggy Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 I have discovered something else (most links now seem OK by the way - be back on that one) :- 1. We now have 3 different enquiry forms on the site. They all open OK but 2 of them don't show the shadow either side of the page, the 3rd does (as do all other pages on the site). Each of these enquiry pages show the shadows in IE. 2. All the navigation links should turn yellow under 'hover' 4 out of 14 don't, yet the links work fine. Suggested fixes will be most welcome. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBall Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Post your code. That will make it easier for us to follow along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Without seeing what you have, how can we tell what's wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andrea Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 You really should look into using CSS for your layout and ditching the tables - this code you have there is quite a mess. Without playing around - see if the different styles you have applied to your links have something to do with it. And on a side-note, it's not very good practice to underline a link using a tag. Aside from the coding - the yellow color scheme and the concept 'financial institution' somehow don't work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggy Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Know what you mean about the colour scheme and, as I have said in other threads, I fully intend to re-write the site in CSS (with different colour schemes. I just needed to get things live for now. I will remove the underlining from those links that have it. The thing that I can't get is why the same code works on some pages and not (fully) on others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 There's nothing wrong with a link being underlined - just with using the underline tag to do so. Do you have this up somewhere so we can look at it - if something works on one page and not on another - then SOMETHING is different somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PicnicTutorials Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Eric scrolls down to look at problem >> Eric sees td's >> Eric's mouse goes directly to the back button... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggy Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 you lost me Eric - ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Eric's saying he does not want to deal with all those table tags... and you'll be hard pressed to find people who would blame him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggy Posted February 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 Fair comment. Thanks to your help, the site is virually fully functional now - very grateful. Perhaps I will now find some time to learn CSS and do the job properly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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