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FrontPage Linkbar problems.

         

bghtn

11:13 pm on Nov 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I used shared borders and a "theme" for my linkbars. I have just recently uploaded them and only a few of the themed bars are showing. The others are showing just as an "x" with the alternate text. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what I may have done wrong? They show up fine when I preview in a browser...so this leads me to believe I did not upload something properly?
Thanks for any help.

bill

8:45 am on Nov 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'd suggest doing a Recalculate Hyperlinks and republishing your web. Sometimes it helps to to the Recalculate directly on the server.

bghtn

1:29 pm on Nov 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi Bill,
Thank you for the response.
I did that and republished. It did not work. How do you recalculate directly on the server?

bghtn

1:40 pm on Nov 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Upon further review of my site, I see some images are not showing up either. I don't know much about html but something looks fishy here.
"html"
<img
src="file:///E:/nameofsite/images/nameofimage.jpg"
I did this site in FrontPage and stored it in a folder on a jump drive. (so that I could work on it during down time at work :)
Is this the problem..and if so..how do I fix.
Thank you for being patient with an extreme newb.

bill

2:26 am on Nov 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I don't recommend the use of FP's themes or shared borders. They are the cause of much confusion because they don't always work the way they should and there is some confusing code generated by them I would suggest that you use FP's "Include Page" instead. It gives you a lot more control over the end results...

That said, in your case one way to fix things would be to to a search and replace:
file:///E:/nameofsite/images/ -->
http:*/www.mydomain.com/images/

Another (better) fix would be to check the properties of the missing images in FP and make sure that their paths point to the correct relative path and not to the absolute path file:///E:/nameofsite/images/*.* That's actually a better solution because it allows FP to maintain the image links.

robert adams

6:27 pm on Nov 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I don't use FP however it looks to me like the link for your images is pointing at your hard drive instead of your web server.
E: is your hard drive not the hosting server.

luck,
robert

Robino

6:32 pm on Nov 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Search: file:///E:/nameofsite/
and replace: h*ttp://www.nameofsite.com/

bghtn

10:38 pm on Nov 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The find and replace worked..the links were pointing to my hard drive..thanks! As far as the linkbars go..I just tried a different theme and it worked. Go figure...anyway..I really appreciate all the help.