[texaschapa]

I have a web page published with MS FrontPage 2000. I made some minor changes last month and have not been able to get my top and left navigation bars on the site since. They were there before I published the changes but not since. Any suggestions?

[slurpee55]

What is the link to your page? If I can look at it, perhaps I can help.

[texaschapa]

livingcooler.com. Thanks in advance.

[slurpee55]

Is this link that is missing - http://www.livingcooler.com/contact_us.htm
part of what you are wanting?
Your code reads
<a href="contact_us.htm">
</a>
You need something in there before the </a> to click on - words, a picture, anything. Also, I would probably use the full address of that webpage (it isn't needed if they both reside on the same server, but I tend to do things like that).

[slurpee55]

Oh, and your side links appear just fine in Firefox 2 but not at all in IE 7. The marquee doesn't work in IE either.
As for the side links, they occur after a <DIV> statement. You also have two width statements:
<td valign="top" width="24"></td><td valign="top" width="1%">
Keep only the first part - just delete </td><td valign="top" width="1%"> - there is a </td> later on to close the statement.

[texaschapa]

Okay, I feel like a dummy. I see what you're talking about in IE but I do not see where to go in FrontPage to make these changes...

[slurpee55]

Alas, I have Publisher, not Front Page. The easiest way (for me) is to save the whole webpage to your PC, open it in IE and then view the source code. This will open up in Notepad. Make the changes I suggested, then save the file. Finally, upload the changed file to your server and replace the page that is there.

[jimr381]

To find the offending code within Frontpage you will want to click on the CODE tab. You can then use the find tool to find whatever it is you are looking for.

[texaschapa]

Are you saying I should delete the <DIV> statement before the side links? I'm not familiar with HTML but you don't really need to be to publish a site with FrontPage.

[slurpee55]

No, keep the <DIV> statement. Just delete the portion
</td><td valign="top" width="1%">

The <DIV> is really a fairly non-important statement - it doesn't alter the formatting, it just defines a block of text as being related. If you felt like cleaning up your code you could (probably) safely delete all <DIV></DIV> tags - but I sure wouldn't bother (I can't say I have ever used it, but MS software always generates it).

[texaschapa]

Alright, I'm getting closer. I switched to a new hosting company yesterday and now have the ability to edit HTML files through site admin. I've everything published now but need to move some of the links in the top navigation bar to the left side navigation. How do I achieve this?

[jimr381]

Originally Posted by slurpee55

No, keep the <DIV> statement. Just delete the portion
</td><td valign="top" width="1%">

The <DIV> is really a fairly non-important statement - it doesn't alter the formatting, it just defines a block of text as being related. If you felt like cleaning up your code you could (probably) safely delete all <DIV></DIV> tags - but I sure wouldn't bother (I can't say I have ever used it, but MS software always generates it).

For clarifications purposes, the <DIV> tag is like some other tags like the <P> tag. It allows you to apply formatting to multiple paragraphs or whole sections on the fly. So, it actually can and is used for formatting.

[texaschapa]

Any idea why the navigation bar that's supposed to be in the left border is included in the navigation bar in the top border?

[jimr381]

Try going to "Format">>"Navigation Bar" or "Shared Borders" and you can tell it where to place the Navigation bar. I am not in the application at the moment, or I would clarify it for you.

[texaschapa]

That didn't work but I was playing around with the name of one of my pages and that corrected the problem.

One last problem I have is that when I try to insert a marquee that option is grayed out. Any ideas?