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May 7th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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Larry
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Scott,

There are no framesets. I corrected my earlier post and gave you the direct link
http://www.testprod.com/debug/about.html

if you are referring to something else - the page was completly built under CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer, Version 5.9.4 and then updated to Version 6 this morning.

The original one http://www.testprod.com/tpinetworksolutions/about.html (built with 5.9.4) does not show the issue.

I tried to change the font from the original Ariel to Thoma, but this made no difference.

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May 7th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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Wayne Ferguson
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I just posted a support ticket with the same problem as multiplicité Patrick thomas. I can't get the site to upload. Unlike someone else who posted here, I had to input all of the FTP settings again.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
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Bruzer
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Larry and Wayne,
I would suggest doing a refresh install, you know the dreaded uninstall and restart re-install seems it has helped some other people that have installed over the last version. See if it helps you. but let us know here in the forums please.




May 7th, 2009 at 12:03 PM
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Scott Swedorski
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Larry wrote:
Scott,

There are no framesets. I corrected my earlier post and gave you the direct link
http://www.testprod.com/debug/about.html

if you are referring to something else - the page was completly built under CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer, Version 5.9.4 and then updated to Version 6 this morning.

The original one http://www.testprod.com/tpinetworksolutions/about.html (built with 5.9.4) does not show the issue.

I tried to change the font from the original Ariel to Thoma, but this made no difference.



Can you try manually removing this line and see if it changes anything:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
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May 7th, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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Larry
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Scott,

Here is what fixed it...
I replaced the doc type from the VSD 6 with the one from VSD 5.9.4

VSD 6 -
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

VSD 5.9.4
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 frameset//en" "http://www.w3.org/tr/html4/frameset.dtd">

In VSD 6 under "Settings" and "Standard Settings for New Pages..."
the Change the DOCTYPE button has only "strict.dtd" or "loose.dtd"

This looks to be the issue - What next?


Thanks,
Larry
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May 7th, 2009 at 12:41 PM
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Spinny
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Larry,

That's problematic, because the 5.9.4 doctype was incorrectly formatted. In effect you've gone to no doctype at all. Using the "strict" one causes several compatibility issues depending on your HTML code. Did you try it with the "loose" one that 6.0 provides?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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May 7th, 2009 at 01:18 PM
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Larry
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Spinny - That did the trick.
I see that I have some minor formatting issues now, but I can fix them.

I guess I want people to know that if you changed your DOCTYPE in VSD 5 then when you migrate to VSD 6 be aware if you see text spacing and formatting issues under different browsers that this is what it could be.

I will continue to review the new software -

Here is a preview of the site migrated from VSD5.9.4 to VSD6.
http://www.testprod.com/debug/index.html

Thanks Team,

Larry -
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May 7th, 2009 at 01:30 PM
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Spinny
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Larry,

Glad it helped.

I think the issue is that 6.0 is the first time the doctype actually has meant something. Browsers have just been displaying VSD pages in default mode until now, and suddenly W3C complaint formatting has burst onto the scene. There are bound to be some effects.
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May 7th, 2009 at 01:58 PM
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Larry
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Scott,

Here is your next one...

The "*" at the top of the file is always present meaning that I have a change pending and have not saved the file even though I just pressed the "Save" button.


Thanks,

Larry
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May 7th, 2009 at 02:59 PM
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Scott Swedorski
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That is very strange. I have not seen that reported before. Can you tell me if the keyboard shortcut or the File Menu > Save or Save As removes the *
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