www.texasknitcamp.com

Time Line page should have white background. Same with Registration page. VSD is clean, but published site look messy. What should I do different?

I am using Vista. I have deleted everything from the "File Manager" within Yahoo and re-published.

Please help.

~Steph

It looks white from my corner of the web - change that, it looked fine in Firefox, but scrambled in IE9.
If you're sure all the old files are off the server, maybe you should try a re-synch rather than the usual upload? Make sure you don't have any objects hidden behind other items and try to avoid text boxes overlapping images, html boxes, etc...
Let us know how it goes

It seems this page is the most skewed:

http://www.texasknitcamp.com/timeline.html

So I made sure the picture was outside of the text box and it didn't change.

Then this page:

http://www.texasknitcamp.com/Registration.html

doesn't have any pictures on it at all and it picks up the banner and places it where a button should go. The whole thing seems a bit buggy. Any advise is welcome, I'll try anything.

Stephanie
Your header image is suffering badly for having been stretched to fit...
179px × 47px (scaled to 850px × 150px)
This is the image information which tells me that a small image only 179px x 47px has been stretched (did you drag it to fit) to the very large 850px x 150px. That is inevitably going to drastically reduce the quality and readability of the image. You should create an image which is the right size before using it on the site. Use an image editing programme such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements...or download and experiment with the CoffeeCup Web Image Studio Lite trial version to see if that works for you.
http://www.coffeecup.com/web-image-studio-lite/

Stephanie, in order to clear the messed feeling about your site, I suggest you correct a couple of things:

1. The Home page looks ok in both IE9 and Fx5.
2. The Time-line page has two images of the camp fire on top of each other in IE, looks ok in Fx. In IE the menu has a Registration button twice, and no activity button. Clicking on the first Registration button brings up the Activity page, though.
3. The Activity page has a small version of the header as the Home button in IE. That bit is ok in Fx, but in Fx the background of the menu bar has an extra Registration button that is stretched down, covering the brown colour of the bar.
4. The Registration page has a streched out Activities button as the page header in IE, ok in Fx.

Since I'm not using VSD, I can't explain why those differences occur. But you ought to go through the pages and see if you have placed elements differently from page to page. The best way of ensuring the same design for all the pages, is to copy everything from the first page onto the following pages, then just edit what is supposed to be different.

Stephanie, you do not need to 'copy' from one page to the next.
Click the add page '+ page' button, the window that pops up lets you name the new page and choose which page you want to 'duplicate'. Then you delete off of the new page what you do not need.
I always make a "template" page for this that has just the basic design that each page will hold.

Hope this helps and good luck.

It was actually the 'duplicate' function I was thinking of when I wrote the above. Since I don't actually use VSD, I didn't get the name right...

Thank you all so much for your help and advise. As far as pointing out all the things that are off, that is just it, they are not that way in VSD. It has to do with publishing or something that scrambles it all up.

I used a template to make the base of each page, so they should all be the same...trees, banner, buttons, side-bar, footer, white behind text area. And on VSD, they are all the same and very clean.

As for the banner being "179px x 47px has been stretched" I looked at my original image and it is 760x100. I don't know where the 179 x 47 came from. Should I delete it and re-upload it? But really, the banner is not the main problem, it is the skewed pages and mystery of mis-placements.

I have tried re-syncing and I also tried doing it plugged in (vs. wi-fi) but no changes.

Thanks again for everyone's help. I wonder if this is just not the software for me (me being someone who is not that great at website stuff).

Stephanie,
Read this article. If you use it as a guide and fix your text box's most of your issues should go away.
http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/working-with-text-in-visual-site-designer/

Thank you. Worked like magic. I was only fixing the pages with issues, but now I fixed the whole site and it looks great.