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Editing Web Page - Need Help

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Kyan

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Mar 7, 2004
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I'm trying to edit my webpage for the first time. www.nyseibukan.com (roster of Black Belts)under info about dojo. I'm using Contribute 2 for the first time. I published the changes, and they are fine in IE, and Firefox, but not when using Safari. None of the changes show in Safari.
Since I'm new at this, I'm looking for any advice, help, or direction.
Thanks,
Kyan

Note: Dennis should be kudan, not hachidan
 
What changes? The IE and Safari versions look almost identical to me (the only differences are the hitcounter not displaying in Safari and the 'see "The Essence of Kata"' link being incorrectly aligned in IE). Perhaps it's a caching problem. Choose 'Empty Cache' from Safari's application menu and see if that makes a difference.

Also, you may want to validate your site. Currently there are over 1200 errors on the front page :eek: (although this is reduced to a little of 100 if you change the doctype to HTML 4.01 transitional)! Validation makes a site more likely to be consistently displayed correctly.
 
What appear to be the differences? Both pages look the same to me in IE and Safari. Perhaps you should try refreshing the page a couple of times or emptying the cache in Safari to see if the new version display. That sometimes happens to me. It's intersting that Contribute would write such bad code. I have a client that uses it without any problems. Good luck with your site.
 
HexMonkey said:
What changes? The IE and Safari versions look almost identical to me (the only differences are the hitcounter not displaying in Safari and the 'see "The Essence of Kata"' link being incorrectly aligned in IE). Perhaps it's a caching problem. Choose 'Empty Cache' from Safari's application menu and see if that makes a difference.

Also, you may want to validate your site. Currently there are over 1200 errors on the front page :eek: (although this is reduced to a little of 100 if you change the doctype to HTML 4.01 transitional)! Validation makes a site more likely to be consistently displayed correctly.
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HexMonkey,
Thanks for the help. I slapped myself in the head when I read "Cache". That was it, and thanks.
As far as validation, let me be honest. I'm lost. Someone created this site for us, left overnight, and because I own a Mac everyone thinks I'm the best qualified to edit and manage this site. I have Contribute 2 and this was my first edit. I started doing tutorials on HTML as well as other web design research, and I ordered Dreamweaver and I am interested and willing to learn.
I don't mind doing the work necessary to learn, but at this point any advice, help, direction, guidance and etc.will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kyan
 
I know what you mean, there's a big learning curve involved. Unfortunately I don't use Contribute so can't help you there. I'm no expert myself, I know enough HTML to get a site looking good, but I hope to learn more about CSS and XML sometime.

To change the doctype of each page to HTML 4.01 transitional, change the first line to '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">' (instead of '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 FINAL//EN">').

The validator (link in my last post) goes through a page's code and finds all the errors, displaying an error message for each. You can click on the explain link for each, to see an explanation for the error message. If you don't know how to fix or do something, do a Google search, or ask here. There's a lot of tutorials and other information on the internet if you know where to look.
 
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