RE: Link disappearance

Jens,
Thanks so much!  I think a big problem I was having was my settings in
Internet Explorer.  I reset my security settings and now things seem to
work fine.  

I would love Dreamweaver, but can't find that I can afford that right
now.

I really appreciate the help.
Juliana

Juliana Halvorson
http://www.graphmaster.com
jh(at)graphmaster.com
505-317-1568 cell
505-622-0078 home
505-622-0078 fax

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Jens Brueckmann
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:55 AM
To: Juliana Halvorson; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Link disappearance


Hi Juliana,

> Anyway, I have run into an issue that I have never had before.  If you

> visit http://www.uforoswell.com, at the bottom you will notice some 
> text links.  The problem is, one never appears.  Everything works on 
> my end until I publish the site.  In between the Activity and FAQ is 
> supposed to be a link to sponsors.

the sponsors' link works fine for me on Win2000 using the following 
browsers:

	Opera 6.05
	Opera 7.20
	Opera7.23
	Netscape 7.1
	Mozilla 1.4
	Mozilla 1.6
	Firebird 0.7
	Firefox 0.8
	Internet Explorer 6 SP1

However, there seems to be a an erroneous link this section of your
source 
code. Have a look at these lines, starting with the "Activity" link and 
ending with the "FAQ" link:

	| 
	<a
href="http://www.uforoswell.com/activity/index.htm">Activity</a>
	&nbsp; |
	<a href="index">&nbsp;</a>
	<a href="../sponsors">Sponsors</a>
	&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp;
	<a href="../faq">FAQ</a>
	&nbsp;&nbsp; |

In the third line you see a link pointing to index.htm which is just 
presented by a non breaking space. I am not acquainted with Frontpage
but 
I gather this might be the result of an error in some include file. This

link is also present on your other pages, just pointing to index.htm of 
the corresponding folder.
You might want to find out why this link is inserted.

I also had a quick look at your CSS file, win.css. Markup is not allowed

in (linked) CSS files.
Luckily most browser will just ignore it, nevertheless this might be a 
cause for some browser to not render your page as intended. Remove the 
entire markup, leaving only the plain ruleset starting with line

	a:active  [...]

and ending with line

	.smtext a:hover     [...]


I will not further comment on the use of Frontpage but would like to
draw 
your attention to the recent interesting discussion on this list about 
standards.


Cheers,


jens


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Jens Brueckmann
http://www.j-a-b.net/

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