Webmaster info showing up 2x at bottom of home page.

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I had just launched my company's website. It's an Informational site, at the
bottom of the home page, the webmaster information shows up twice.

www.willitshoe.com

I looked at the code, and I'm not very familiar with HTML code, so, I looked
at the code, and at the bottom it had

127> </html>
128>
129>
130>
yada yada yada
138> </html>


I had deleted the second html tag, but nothing happened. Any suggestions??
 
I suspect you indavertantly repeated that information in the shared border.

You can open the shared border page, by browsing to the _borders folder and
opening the "bottom.htm" page. See if that information is in there, and
delete one instance of it.

File > Open > Page
Then in the "file" box, just type _borders/bottom.htm (since _borders is a
hidden folder), and it will open the page.

Save it, and republish the site. (FP should recogise bottom.htm has been
altered and saved so will publish it again.
 
Dear Jeremy,

On the bottom of the page: http://www.willitshoe.com/index.htm - it
looks like you have added a navigation bar directly to the page. Delete
it. It is automatically placed there by the bottom shared border. Here
is the code I get at the bottom of the page:

----------------------------------------------------------------
<h5>Send mail to <font color="#0000FF">
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"><font color="#0000FF">
(e-mail address removed)</font></a></font>
with questions or comments about this web site.<br>
Last modified: 05/10/06</h5>
</td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table>
</body>
<!--msnavigation--></td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table><!--msnavigation--><table
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h5>Send mail to <font color="#0000FF">
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"><font color="#0000FF">
(e-mail address removed)</font></a></font>
with questions or comments about this web site.<br>
Last modified: 05/10/06
</h5>
</td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table></body>
</head>
</html>
---------------------------

See all the stuff after the </body> tag? There is the bug. Everything
between the </body> tag and the </html> tag must be deleted in Code
View - it does not belong there. If you have to, copy
http://www.willitshoe.com/news.htm (which is set up correctly), save it
as index1.htm, delete index.htm, and rename index1.htm to index.htm,
re-type your home page text, then fix the site structure in navigation
view. Remember to check that your new index.htm is 'Set As Home
Page...'. You also might consider resizing that picture at the top, and
placing it beneath your top navigation bar. Good luck, Jeremy.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv
 
Thank you both for the response. It will have to wait until Monday to be
fixed, but at least I know what to do. Thank you again.
 
In Code View, This is file _borders/Bottom.htm

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Bottom Border</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="custom-theme 1011, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
</head>

<body>

<h5 align="left">Send mail to <font color="#0000FF">
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"><font color="#0000FF">
<!--webbot bot="Substitution" s-variable="CompanyWebmaster"
--></font></a></font>
with questions or comments about this web site.<br>
Last modified: <!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" s-type="EDITED"
s-format="%m/%d/%y" -->
</h5>

</body>
</html>

In Design view, It only shows one "Send mail to (e-mail address removed) with
questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 05/15/06 "

I did the navigation structure, I had to create a link bar for the
Confirmation page for feedback. I had deleted that, then ALL of my Linkbars
got Deleted from every page. So I Rebuilt it. & Changed the picture around.
Any Suggestions??
 
I have rebuilt the website. Using frontpage 2003; I basically just copied and
pasted the content.

I used the template "Corporate Presence Website". Still the same thing.
Webmaster info shows up twice. www.willitshoe.com

When I opened _borders/Bottom.htm; there was only one instance of it. In the
Navigation Structure it goes as follows
Home
News
Catalog
Feedback
Confirmation


Now the Link Bar's are showing as Child Pages under Home. and then I have
Home Page checked to show on the right of the shared borders property screen.

I don't know how to fix this error, the rest of the site looks and works
great. But that one part is bugging me. I think I have covered everything
that I have done, or gone over today, let me know if I am missing something.
I will post my results along with what I do on this topic.
 
Dear Jeremy,

In FrontPage, just open index.htm - close all other pages. On the menu
bar, click Format -> Shared Borders... click the Current Page radio
button, uncheck the Bottom Border, and click OK. Now, there should be
no example of:

"Send mail to (e-mail address removed) with questions or comments about
this web site. Last modified: 05/15/06"

showing there. But there will be - I think that you accidentally added
it. Delete it, and File -> Save page. Then, again, with only index.htm
still open, go back to the menu bar, click Format -> Shared Borders...
click the Current Page radio button, check the Reset borders for
current page to web default, and click OK. Save again. There should be
only one "Send mail..." thing now. All of your pages, including
index.htm, should have only one use of this code:

<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlb, default">

at the top of your page, in code view. Then publish the site to your
web host, and close FrontPage. Go view your site in a browser. Refresh
the page (F5 on your keyboard); should be OK now. If the problem is
still there, write back. I'll stay with you until we get this straight.
Good luck, Jeremy.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv
 
I have done what you requested. It is still the same. I even tried to remove
the bottom border all together, and it did. But, it wouldn't look uniform
throughout. So I reset the borders to default again, and published it, and
again the info shows up twice.

I had published another site https://home.comcast.net/~jeremyh82

That one doesn't have the bottom borders on it though. If I can't figure
this out, I am just going to remove them altogether.
 
Dear Jeremy,

No problem; we are not done yet. I have fought this battle with
FrontPage 100 times. After the 30th, I started winning regularly. At
about 90, I always won. It just takes a little patience. Loosen your
necktie a bit, sit down in front of your computer, and let's do this.

I just now made a complete, new sub-web on my site using the Corporate
Presence Wizard - I wanted to recreate your problem before I answered
you. I goofed around, changing the borders around at the bottom just
like I used to when I first started using FrontPage years ago; just
messing around, learning, excited. I had forgotten how much fun it was.
I was saving my work at random places. Anyway, I finally got it right -
I mean wrong. My index.htm, when viewed on the web, did indeed show my
webmaster contact thingy twice on that one page. Groovy.

Listen Jeremy - a FrontPage user's website can include things in a few
clicks that are really, really hard to do with any other web-making
tool. EVERY other web-making tool. Microsoft FrontPage is no joke. I
use it, I love it; it gave me a new career almost a decade ago. I mean,
just look at some of the features that are available to you: Shared
Borders, Hit Counters, Themes, Templates, Navigation Bars, Search Page,
Form Page Wizards, Database Results Wizards, Database Interface
Wizards, Tasks, Reports, and on and on and on. You learn how to fix
these little snags, and build great FrontPage sites, my friend, and
pretty soon your associates will wanting you to make sites for them.
FrontPage has launched many careers; it may launch yours, but you must
never give up on it, even though it thinks that it is smarter than you.
It is not.

In order for FrontPage to offer all of these automatic components, it
has to have alot of hidden (and I mean HIDDEN) things going on inside
of it. There are files that you will NEVER see, unless you are the
server administrator. Little tiny .exe, .dll, .log, .inf, and other
files that log and control stuff are all over the place. Sometimes
these get goofed up, and cause errors. The hard way to fix this is to
go snooping around in those files until you find the problem. Hopefully
we will not have to do that. First, let's try the easy way.

Open your site in FrontPage, but do not open any pages yet. On the menu
bar, go to Tools -> Site Settings, and the Site Settings window will
appear. Click the Advanced tab at the top. Check the box that says Show
hidden files and folders, and then click the Delete Temporary Files
button. Click OK. FrontPage will yell something about refreshing the
web now. You answer OK. Now, on the left hand folder bar (if you cant
see it, hit Alt+F1) you see a bunch of folders that weren't there
before. They start with an underscore ( _ ) because the server itself
will deny access to any folder that starts with one. Click the + next
to the _borders folder, and open the page bottom.htm. In the code view,
erase all of the code on that page. Copy and paste this code, so this
is all that is there:

<h5 align="center">
<font size="1">
Send mail to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">
<!--webbot bot="Substitution" s-variable="CompanyWebmaster" -->
</a> with questions or comments about this web site. Last
modified:&nbsp;
<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%m/%d/%y" -->
</font>
</h5>

and then save the page. Again, FrontPage will holler something about
how changing the shared border will affect every page in the web. Too
bad; let her yell. It won't do her any good. You answer OK. We are in
control now, see?

Last step. You close bottom.htm, and go open index.htm, and the borders
will be gone. No sweat. Go to Format -> Shared Borders, and check the
Apply to: All Pages radio box, and check Top and its' Include
Navigation Buttons, Left and its' Include Navigation Buttons, and
Bottom - leave right unchecked for now. Push OK. The correct borders
will appear. We have outsmarted her. I hope. It worked for me. See, by
manually rewriting that page, we force FrontPage to rewrite all of
those little files. She doesn't like that. Too bad.

If she still won't play nice, write back. Like anything worth having,
she may require special attention from time to time. And we are only
too happy to give it; she can't help it if she thinks that she is
smarter than us. We love her anyway. Good luck, Jeremy.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv
 
Did as you requested word for word. It changed the size of the font of the
webmaster thing, but it still shows up twice.

When I pasted the code in bottom.htm; and saved it, it didn't prompt me for
anything. it just saved it, then i closed it, still nothing.

This is the code for bottom.htm


<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Bottom Border</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="custom-theme 1011, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
</head>

<body>
<h5 align="center">
<font size="1">
Send mail to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">
<!--webbot bot="Substitution" s-variable="CompanyWebmaster" -->
</a> with questions or comments about this web site. Last
modified:
<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%m/%d/%y" -->
</font>
</h5>

</body>
</html>

Now this is a custom themed; I changed the background pic for the Blends
theme. That's all I did.

I realize that Frontpage can make or break any career, given that they want
to pursue it. There are a lot of "Neat" things that front page can do, and
there are a lot of things that ActiveX controllers can do accompanied w/
flashplayer. I am 24 y/o. I am just beginning a long journey in this field. I
will continue using FrontPage, I won't say it's the only website making
utility that i've used, but it has been the easiest, in terms of the wizards,
the feedback wizard, and understanding. Because of the split screen, you can
see what does what, and how it applies. One day, I am hoping to use a utility
such as Dreamweaver, but that is once I learn HTML better.

I seriously appreciate your help on this.

Jeremy
 
Dear Jeremy,

A quick glance at http://www.willitshoe.com/ shows no double contact
info at the bottom any more. Have you solved your problem? I am still
here, stopping in between battles of my own. I have not abandoned you,
and will continue to stand ready to fight beside you. Just holler -
good luck.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv
 
Yes,

the problem has been solved. I had two body tags at the bottom of the home
page. I simply deleted one.

Thank you very much though. It brought me closer to learning HTML; I should
take a class on it, but my tranny in my car had just went. That's going to be
costly.

But anyways, I do appreciate it.
 
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