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JoyceOdell
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June 20, 2023
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Site has developed a glitch. Any suggestions?

  • June 20, 2023
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Have developed a glitch, and my attempts to fix it have made it worse. Any suggestions?

 

I built a site in Dreamweaver 2021, on a  2018 iMac running Mojave, just in case this is relevant. The site has been online since about February 2022.

Okay, there is a main title image and an image banner at the top of the pages. These are individual .png files. 

I changed the image banner with the individual page subject name of one of them. I relinked it, it showed up in Dreamweaver, but although I replaced the banner image on the site, the new title didn't swap out for the old one. Even though I had deleted the old one, that was still the image that showed when I opened the page in a browser.

 

Okay, that was phase 1. Annoying, but the page still functioned. So today I tried to fix it by changing the name of the .html page and re-linking it to the menu in the template. It appeared to work. I re-uploaded the correct image file, and uploaded all the pages linked to that template.

 

Now the page appears to be lost. The menu link does not bring it up at all. 

 

I went into TimeMachine and restored the site from yesterday. All of the site. All of the files. Everything ought to be back to where it was yesterday, right?

 

It isn't. The page has the old name. The Template links to it under the old name. But when I try to preview in a browser, I get a lost page which never  appears.

 

Does anyone have any idea of how i can fix this and get the page back again. Preferably with the correct image banner, but I'll do without if i have to.

 

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    The issue is that I don't know how to do two thirds of what's been suggested. The fact that I did get a limited success with my last round of uploads gives me a prompt to let things ride overnight and try again tomorrow. 

     

    The site is something like 280 pages, so I'd rather not take the chance of messing anything more up right at the moment.

    I was reasonably conversant with Dreamweaver CS6. But that barely runs on Mojave, and is not going to run on anything more recent. I have not taken to DW 2021 much at all. But it's about my only option if I expect to be able to continue to work with the site if I end up needing to replace my computer. Which is certainly in my future, so I needn't think I'm going to manage to evade it.


    Static HTML and Templates were intended for small sites, no more than 50 pages or so.  You've exceeded that threshold  by more than 5 times.  With a site that large, you need a dynamic solution with content in a database and scripts that create pages & navigation for you on the server.  That will eliminate 90% of the site management problems you're having now and free you up to work on content.

     

    There are several dynamic options.  Some free, some open source. But static HTML is not the way forward.

     

    -- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/

     

    ONLINE SITE BUILDERS:

    -- Squarespace - https://www.squarespace.com/
    -- Webflow - https://webflow.com
    -- Wix - https://www.wix.com/
    -- WordPress (open source) - https://wordpress.org/

     

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    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 20, 2023

    If you...

    1) have uploaded all pages and images, keeping in mind images won't go automatically with the page they're on, they need to be uploaded manually

    2) have a naming convention that isn't problematic. For example: all lower case alphanumeric names without spaces or special characters. FILE.html is the same as file.html on your local OS, on your remote server, they are treated as two separate files (on Mac OS a link to MyPage.html will go to mypage.html without issue, online, it will be 404)

    3) and have everything uploaded to the correct location (local site file structure must be identical the remote site). Your remote root folder (like public_html, www, or htdocs) should NOT show up within the Files window in DW. If it does, you may have your site set up incorrectly, and have a duplicate root folder online now.

    ...it sounds to me like you might be looking at information that's not being updated by the browser.

    Have you tried clearing your browser cache, or using a different browser that hasn't visited the site recently?

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    JoyceOdellAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2023

    Well, curiouser and curioser. I gave up yesterday, since it simply *would* not load, no matter what I did. This moring, it loads the OLD page. With the old banner image. Even though the old banner image is not available, because I deleted it. The actual page file links links to the new image. A refresh does not change anything. I'm inclined to just leave things be, since at least I'm *getting* the page now. Even if the title is wrong.

     

    The page URL is: http://www.redhen-publications.com/elephant.html I had changed "elephant" to "pachyderm" since I'd retitled the essay to  'The Pachyderm in the Parlor' -- which is how the banner title .ping that is actually online has it. Manually changing Elephant to pachyderm in the URL brings up the new page -- with the old banner title, despite the fact that that pagen never used the old banner title.

     

    That's in Safari. In Firefox the *proper* page loads -- with NO banner title. Despite the fact that the correct banner title is in the correct image fcolder, and the page is correctly linked to it, and shows it without a hitch in Dreamweaver. The same thing happens in Chrome. Manually changing elephant to pachyderm in both Firefx and Chrome brings up the old page, without any banner title .png.

     

    Do what I will, none of my browsers will load the correct banner title, even though all of the page files are linked to it.

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      JoyceOdellAuthor
      Inspiring
      June 20, 2023

      Arggh. Changing pachyderm to elephant manually in Firefox or chrome brings up the old page, without any banner title .png. 

      J
      JoyceOdellAuthor
      Inspiring
      June 20, 2023

      To add to the above; I managed to get it to work inside Dreamweaver with a browser preview. But the uploaded files still refuse to load the page online..

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      osgood_
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      June 20, 2023
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      To add to the above; I managed to get it to work inside Dreamweaver with a browser preview. But the uploaded files still refuse to load the page online..


      By @JoyceOdell

       

      So you now have it working locally in Dreamweaver when you view it in your browser BUT it doesnt work when you upload the same page to your remote server and view it in your browser?

       

      If that is the case can you provide a link to the page which is online so someone can have a look at the source code?

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