website access using XP home

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Susan

I am unable to access www.scotch.wa.edu.au using XP Home
on my PC. Others can access it using XP Professional, or
if using XP Home from a Mac.

It is a school website which was recently completely re-
designed and the webdesigner says it is my computer. I
have tried changing security settings, removing all
internet history and reinstalling XP. The school has
tried to create the problem using a stand alone computer
with a dial-up connection, but they do not have the
problem. I am using broadband cable. Another friend who
is having the same problem is using ADSL cable. We are
both using Internet Explorer.

When I try to access the website, I get the banner across
the top, the headings down the side, and the subheadings,
but they will not open, except for the registration
page. So some of the site comes up, but no
information. The webdesigner and the school both say
they can't help. Can anybody think of what else I can
try.
..
 
Download & install MS Virtual Machine Build 3805.
Then visit the Windows Update website to obtain the
security updated version (Build 3810).
http://www.virtualmachine.tk/


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I am unable to access www.scotch.wa.edu.au using XP Home
| on my PC. Others can access it using XP Professional, or
| if using XP Home from a Mac.
|
| It is a school website which was recently completely re-
| designed and the webdesigner says it is my computer. I
| have tried changing security settings, removing all
| internet history and reinstalling XP. The school has
| tried to create the problem using a stand alone computer
| with a dial-up connection, but they do not have the
| problem. I am using broadband cable. Another friend who
| is having the same problem is using ADSL cable. We are
| both using Internet Explorer.
|
| When I try to access the website, I get the banner across
| the top, the headings down the side, and the subheadings,
| but they will not open, except for the registration
| page. So some of the site comes up, but no
| information. The webdesigner and the school both say
| they can't help. Can anybody think of what else I can
| try.
| .
|
|
 
Hi Susan,

Check the HOSTS file under C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc. Open it in
notepad and check for references to that site by name or IP. Remove any that
you find.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Check the HOSTS file under C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc. Open it in
notepad and check for references to that site by name or IP. Remove any that
you find.
Click to expand...

Note that the original question says the desired page
is visible, but not entirely functional. That would seem
to make editing the HOSTS file unlikely to be a fruitful
endeavour. :-)
 
Download & install MS Virtual Machine Build 3805.

That puzzled me enough to ask: did you see some Java
somewhere on that page? I poked around for a while,
but all I could find was JavaScript (which presumably
would not be noticeably improved by a VM update).
 
It is a school website which was recently completely re-
designed and the webdesigner says it is my computer.
Click to expand...

I suggest dropping that person a note that says:

"Say, your home page appears to contain several
completely illegal '<a/>' tags where you clearly
meant to say '</a>' instead -- could you fix
those up for us?"

Alas, though it's true that the web designer has
written a web page rife with errors, getting them
fixed is not guaranteed to fix your problem,
but it may make the web designer more
open-minded about being helpful :-).

Lots of (perhaps most) web pages have errors
on them, but web browsers often just try to
ignore them. Unless web designers test their
pages against a bunch of different browser
versions, they may never notice that their page
looks right in some of them, but not others.
Likewise, different versions of web browsers
have display bugs in them, so web pages may
deliberately do bad things to get the result to
"look right" in those browsers. It's kindofa
mess :-).

Should none of the other respondents' suggestions
prove helpful, could you give some more specifics
about what's going wrong? I'm viewing the page
with Windows XP Home, and Internet Explorer
6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2. etc. What exact version
of IE do you have? (Click Help and then
"About Internet Explorer").

I think that the page "works" for my particular
machine/browser, but I'm not 100% sure what
pieces do not work for you. In the left column,
I see a vertical array of headings that include:
"Home", "About Scotch", "Enrolments",
"School Community", and so on. If I click
on "School Community", the page refreshes
and "School Community" then contains
the sub-heads "Board", "Support Groups",
"Parents Directory", and so on. At that
point, the middle column contains a bunch of
content labelled "Parents Association".

Are you saying that clicking on the sub-headings
at that point does nothing? Or are you saying
that clicking on "School Community" does
not reveal any sub-headings? Or are you
saying something else?
 
Hello Ron,

Confirming your observations...

When I visit www.scotch.wa.edu.au I end up at http://
www.scotch.wa.edu.au/newsite/public_html/index.php

A newsTicker is active.

I see the same as you did. I get the same results
as you did, (click on "School Community", etc.)

I am using XP Pro (OEM), SP1, but I have the same
version of IE 6 as you do, (possibly with different
Q-hotfixes.)

| a web page rife with errors...

Apart from three "<a/>" tags, approximately how many
other errors did you spot? After I go offline, I shall
scrutinize the source code.

Jan

-----Original Message-----
Click to expand...
I suggest dropping that person a note that says:
Click to expand...
"Say, your home page appears to contain several
completely illegal '<a/>' tags where you clearly
meant to say '</a>' instead -- could you fix
those up for us?"
Click to expand...
Alas, though it's true that the web designer has
written a web page rife with errors, getting them
fixed is not guaranteed to fix your problem,
but it may make the web designer more
open-minded about being helpful :-).
Click to expand...
Lots of (perhaps most) web pages have errors
on them, but web browsers often just try to
ignore them. Unless web designers test their
pages against a bunch of different browser
versions, they may never notice that their page
looks right in some of them, but not others.
Likewise, different versions of web browsers
have display bugs in them, so web pages may
deliberately do bad things to get the result to
"look right" in those browsers. It's kind ofa mess :-).
Click to expand...
Should none of the other respondents' suggestions
prove helpful, could you give some more specifics
about what's going wrong? I'm viewing the page
with Windows XP Home, and Internet Explorer
6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2. etc. What exact version
of IE do you have? (Click Help and then
"About Internet Explorer").
Click to expand...
 
Apart from three said:
other errors did you spot?
Click to expand...

I just ran it through the w3c validator. Skimming
the huge problem report, the "<a/>" was just
what leapt out as both clearly an unintended
mistake and a candidate for causing problems
in somebody's browser. The report is very
large and repetitive (e.g., lots of <img> tags
with no alt description), so there may be
other worthwhile problems I missed.
 
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