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New to Web Design, how to debug?

Jan 1, 2008 7:07AM PST

I've spent days building a small, simple website using a template and Expression Web. I have all these problems that I can't seem to fix.

One of my pages went 404. I've done everything I can think of to fix it. It works fine in Expression Web and in "preview in browser". I've FTP'd again, but it's still 404.

The pages have webbots with "includes" for the top, side and copyright areas. All pages work in Expression Web, most work in the Browser. On two pages the includes don't show in the browser. I've copied pages that work and replaced the photos and copy and the includes still don't work. On one page all the includes don't work. One one page just the sidebar includes doesn't work.

I've compared the code and I can't find the problem.

I'm so frustrated, I'm ready to give up. Is there any way to find the problem? Is it just another lousy Microsoft program that's full of bugs? Should I try another program?

The template was actually created for FrontPage, but I don't think that's the problem.

Also, everytime I open the site in Expression Web, it tells me that I have all these broken links, but they work when you control/Click on them.

HELP!!

bkay

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Need more info
Feb 17, 2008 12:51AM PST

A couple of things, you can go to http://www.learnexpression.com/ there are some good free tutorials there. I have never really used a wysiwyg for website design so I am not sure why the pages are showing in Expression web, but not showing in the browser.

You said that some of the pages are displaying sort of, can you send me a link to those.

You also mention that the template was created for FrontPage, I have never used FrontPage, but I have had to help users get their pages to work on IIS and I know that I had to install some server side extensions for it.

If I can see your HTML for your pages I can probably fix them. You might want to use an HTML editor like notepad++ and go to http://www.w3schools.com/ to learn html and css, that way you never have to use a wysiwyg editor again.

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Thanks so much
Feb 17, 2008 5:38AM PST

Thanks so much for your reply and the info. I gave up and hired someone to fix it.

Thanks for the links, too. I need to learn more, just can't find the time, or maybe more accurately, I don't take the time.

Thanks again.