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Ava Control
02-01-2005, 07:42 AM
Hi everyone, I'm VERY new to this HTML/frames business, but I've been doing alright so far... Until tonight.

I constructed some frames for my website, using the directions from this site. While the page looks fine on my end, no one else can see it!!! A friend of mine who's good at web things told me it might have to do with the way geocities hosts these sites. How can I fix this???

Here's the site...
http://www.geocities.com/immortalityproject/frontpage.html

It's supposed to be a frame on top, a thin one on the left and a large one on the right.

Could this have something to do w/ the way geocities does ads and things? B/c I have an ad free domain, this was just for practice.

I hope you can help, this is very distressing to me.

<3 Ava
Skipperkirk
02-01-2005, 11:01 AM
sorry but your link doesnt work...could you post another?

thanks!
pb&j
02-01-2005, 01:24 PM
it looks like you are entering your frameset coding inside of an "easy" page maker. this causes problems as your coding now looks like this...
<html>
<head>

<title>Untitled</title>

</head>

<body>
<html>

<head>
<title>The Immortality Project</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="20%,*"border=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
<frame src="immortalbanner.html" NAME="banner"scrolling=no noresize>
<frameset cols="20%,80%*"border=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
<frame src="taskbar.html" NAME="taskbar"scrolling=no noresize>
<frame src="news.html" NAME="news">
</frameset>
</frameset>
<body>
</body>
<noframes>
<a href="your main page.html">Click Here</a>
</noframes>

</html>

</body>
</html>
see how the pagemaker puts extra html and body tags around your creation? that is the problem.

to fix this, just do your coding in a text editor on your computer like in notepad, then upload the page using FTP program or using the easy file upload system online.

or... if you are a die-hard pagebuilder fan, this may help...
http://www.yahoopagebuilderhelp.com/frames.html

also, to fix up your actual coding a bit....
<html>
<head>
<title>The Immortality Project</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="20%,*" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="immortalbanner.html" NAME="banner" scrolling="no" noresize>
<frameset cols="20%,80%*" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="taskbar.html" NAME="taskbar" scrolling="no" noresize>
<frame src="news.html" NAME="news">
</frameset>
</frameset>
</html>


hth
Ava Control
02-01-2005, 06:23 PM
OH Thank you so much! When I said I was new to this, I meant like... Started learning these things last week :)

Last question... I have a Mac... What program should I use to write up my code so that I can do the FTP thing? I don't know what random text editors I have, I just always use AppleWorks...

Thank you so much in advance!

<3 Ava!

P.S. Ooh, the cleaned up coding looks much better!
MaGiCSuN
02-01-2005, 08:26 PM
I use texteditor
you can compare it to notepad on a pc :)

it should be on your mac, atleast i got it as a general program on it. at my iBook it's under finder > programs

if you have an older version of mac OS then you probably have "simpletext". I have it aswell, but it's not really working properly since it has to start up mac os 9.

Love,
mirna