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LonghornLady1

01-21-2006, 04:23 AM

Hi. Does anyone have any idea why my index.html page is not loading completely the first time?

It loads as far as what is visible on the monitor and shows an error icon on the bottom line of the browser window and says "Done". I can then either hit "refresh" or "resize" and "restore" or click on one of the nav bar links which loads that page fine, or the refresh or resize seems to make the index.html page work fine after that.

I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. It is doing it in Windows XP, 98 and Me. As far as I can tell, it's doing it in IE. I'm not sure about other browsers.

The URL is www.plantanapolofarm.com.

I used Dreamweaver MX 2004 to build it and have used it on numerous other sites, but this is the first time I've had any problems like this. I know HTML too and have checked through my code and everything looks fine.

Thanks for ANY input anyone can give.

Blessings!!

J-man91

01-21-2006, 01:26 PM

I'm guessing it has somehing to do with the javascript on your page, because it loads just fine for me, although I do see the error symbol on the bottom.

george123

01-21-2006, 04:04 PM

Hi,

I copied and pasted the code in my dreamweaver and looked at it. I displayed just fine. I think, as stated by J-man91 that is has something to do with the java script. What if you remove the script and ftp the page again and test it?

Good luck,

GT
ps: I don't know java as of yet!

LonghornLady1

01-21-2006, 04:44 PM

Hi GT,

Thanks for your suggestion...

I deleted that bit of script code that I DIDN'T put there in the first place...at least knowingly...Ha, and uploaded it to the server just now.

Now the error icon is gone, but only the first part of the page is loading and it says, "Done" in the bottom line of the browser. Now, I'm having trouble getting the whole page to load even when I refresh or come back to it from another page...ARGH!

I don't know any scripting yet either. I think that's on my "To Do" list for this summer!!!

Any other suggestions you can think of?

Thanks and blessings!!

RdSoxFan618

01-23-2006, 04:53 PM

Wait a sec, so you don't know HTML and you made a page? I never knew Dreamweaver could do that >:D.

LonghornLady1

01-25-2006, 03:34 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions...finally figured out what was wrong...

My webdesign software automatically inserts a definition of the language it uses to build the site, this time 4.01 Transitional HTML (it includes this on every site I build) at the very top of the source code, but this time(the first time), for some reason, some of the codes didn't verify to that version, so the whole page wouldn't load.

I deleted that line since it's actually before the <head> tag and isn't a necessity and ...voila, it worked and the page is working great. (It really wasn't as easy as that...I have a lot less hair now and was ready to throw the computer through the window after 3 days of not being able to figure out what was up with it!)

Just wanted to post the outcome incase someone else runs into the same problem.

Thanks again and blessings to you!!!