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Rollover and Navigation Bar effects not working on Home Page

Mar 24, 2012 10:59 AM

Tags: #cs3 #dreamweaver #images #rollovers #navigation_bar

Working in CS3

I create in design view as I am not a professional web designer. I learned Dreamweaver as best I could to create a site for my business. Problem: The navigation bar rollover effects work on all the pages on the site except for the home page. I cannot seem to get any rollover effects to work as well. Have tried re-doing the nav bar and rollover links multiple times with no success.

Home page: www.aiscorporate.com

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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1. Ken Binney,

Mar 24, 2012 1:08 PM in reply to djfellows

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See if it's one of these 21 errors

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Faiscorporate.com%2F&ch arset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

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2. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 1:17 PM in reply to Ken Binney

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Oh my...is this just on the home page or throughout the entire site? Thanks for the reply. I will try and decipher these one by one.

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3. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 1:40 PM in reply to Ken Binney

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None of these "line" numbers remotely match up with what I am seeing in code view on the main page. Not sure how to even address the errors.

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4. John Waller,

Mar 24, 2012 2:11 PM in reply to djfellows

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The Validator is seeing the final assembled code as delivered by the server to a browser.

If you have Includes or other items in the non-assembled code in DW then the line numbers will be different.

All line numbers match here when I View Source in IE9 - and should match Live View in DW.

e.g.

ERROR

Line 273, Column 95: value of attribute "id" must be a single token
… name="Log In" type="submit" class="style74" id="Log In" value="Log In" /></td>
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This attribute cannot take a space-separated list of words as a value, but only one word ("token"). This may also be caused by the use of a space for the value of an attribute which does not permit it.

SOURCE CODE

Line 273 <td><input name="Log In" type="submit" class="style74" id="Log In" value="Log In" /></td>

Remove the space from id="Log In" - it's invalid, only a single word is permitted. If you really need a space then use a hyphen or underscore instead.

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5. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 2:30 PM in reply to John Waller

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Thanks John. I am having trouble identifying what pages these errors are on. I did locate the "Log In" error and hopefully fixed it. Would this affect my original concern with the Nav bar and rollover effects not working on the home page?

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6. John Waller,

Mar 24, 2012 2:40 PM in reply to djfellows

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djfellows wrote:
I am having trouble identifying what pages these errors are on.

The validator gives you the URL where it saw the error. Is that what you mean?

If you mean you're trying to clean all pages sitewide then use the sitewide Find & Replace tool in DW.

djfellows wrote:

Would this affect my original concern with the Nav bar and rollover effects not working on the home page?
Don't know.

It's always best to troubleshoot clean valid pages though.

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7. Ken Binney,

Mar 24, 2012 2:39 PM in reply to djfellows

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Hi -

That report was on the home page only.
To check other pages, enthe the desired URL in the Validator

http://validator.w3.org/

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8. Nancy O.,

Mar 24, 2012 3:58 PM in reply to djfellows

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If you need to have your car serviced, you take it to a trained auto mechanic, right?
If you need an electrician or plumber you hire a certified professional, right?
It's no different for your business web site. Hire an experienced professional to help you fix your site.

That said, your menus are not worth saving. When they came out, MM Rollover menus were a total train wreck. Here's why:
http://losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_me nujs/

Replacement Menu Systems that will work 1000% better.

Project Seven Pop-Menu Magic 2 (commercial extension for DW)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/index.htm

Spry Menu 2.0 (free from Adobe Exchange)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_menu_bar.html

Good luck,

Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb
http://alt-web.blogspot.com/

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9. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 4:28 PM in reply to Ken Binney

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Thanks Ken - I have the errors down to 9. Still can't seem to get the Home page Nav bar to work like the rest of the site. What is strange is the validator claims there is no attribute but clearly it is in the code. I compared with the pages that work and everything is identical. Would pasting the code in the discussion help?
Line 184, column 29: there is no attribute "height" <table width="970" height="627" border="0">
Line 227, column 332: there is no attribute "onload"…e_a.gif" alt="Home page" name="Home" border="0" id="Home" onload="" /></a></td>
Line 246, column 85: there is no attribute "bordercolor"…table width="174" height="38" border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#E3E3E3">

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10. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 4:32 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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Thanks for the links Nancy. I do appreciate your sentiment about hiring a professional, however considering I have developed this entire site, including graphics, etc, I hate to scrap it when only one Nav bar on the entire site isn't working. If I can't fix it, perhaps I'll call as I have your links!

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11. Nancy O.,

Mar 24, 2012 4:38 PM in reply to djfellows

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I didn't mean you should scrap everything! Just the crappy MM Rollover Menus.
Content wise, your site is terrific. It's the code that's messed up. A pro could fix it all in no time.

Nancy O.

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12. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 4:58 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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Thank you, I appreciate the compliment. Is there any plausible explanation why the exact same code on 25 other pages within the site work but not on the home page? I was able to fix 18 out of the original 21 errors from validator that Ken sent. The remaining 3 errors claim there is no attribute but again, there is.

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13. John Waller,

Mar 24, 2012 5:23 PM in reply to djfellows

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djfellows wrote:

The remaining 3 errors claim there is no attribute but again, there is.

That's the sometimes unclear language of the validator.

It's not complaining about the lack of an attribute. It's saying that the existing attribute is invalid and should removed.

FOR EXAMPLE

Line 842, Column 29: there is no attribute "height"
<table width="970" height="627" border="0">
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You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element.

Height has never been a valid attribute for the <table> tag and that attribute should be removed. Let the content inside the table determine the height of the table

This probably won't solve the navbar issues but it does clean the code up.

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14. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 5:27 PM in reply to John Waller

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Oh I see. I have suddenly become very concerned the # of lines of code just tripled. Oh no. What did I just do???

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15. John Waller,

Mar 24, 2012 5:52 PM in reply to djfellows

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I'm still seeing the same 3 errors in the validator.

Have you uploaded your amended page yet?

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16. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 6:22 PM in reply to John Waller

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Yes but I don't think I am amending it correctly. Plus as previously mentioned, I have some how 2 to 3 times the lines of code.

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17. John Waller,

Mar 24, 2012 6:48 PM in reply to djfellows

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You just go into Code View, remove the attributes from the 3 lines and upload.

I'm seeing multiple repetition of Javascript functions in the <head> of the document. Not sure what you're doing to cause that.

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18. djfellows,

Mar 24, 2012 8:02 PM in reply to John Waller

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Thanks John - The more I fix it the more errors I get. I need to revisit tomorrow as I am going backwards. I am self taught on Dreamweaver and you (as well as others on this thread) have given me new bits of info which I greatly appreciate. Thanks. Back at it tomorrow!

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