Sent from my U.S. Cellular BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com Sender: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:00:29 To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 31 When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html Today's Topics: 1. Distorted Pages (Beverly Watson) 2. Re: Distorted Pages (J.A. Florian) 3. Re: Distorted Pages (Lorrie Laskey) 4. Re: Distorted Pages (Pat Geary) 5. Re: Distorted Pages (Beverly Watson) 6. Re: Distorted Pages (J.A. Florian) 7. Re: Distorted Pages (Barry Carlson) 8. Re: Distorted Pages (Lorrie Laskey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 05:09:02 -0600 From: Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com> Subject: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <COL104-W32350C350A0F2D32054C9D8BED0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Has Rootsweb made changes to the banner at the foot of the page in the last few days? It had previously been at the very bottom of the page, but is now about 1/4 inch above the bottom and I find that several of the pages in my website has become distorted. Since I haven't made any changes I can only assume the change to the banner has been the cause of this. Beverly ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 06:41:47 -0500 From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com> Cc: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AANLkTinb-iwNGb0yOcR4uN3j2E1M6g3nedsv2mN_vKZW@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Beverly, The top banner looks for the opening html and opening body tag. The top banner looks for the closing /body tag and closing /html tag. If one or both sets are doubled, 2 banners get inserted (top or bottom -- or both can be affected). If one or both sets are missing a tag, the placement of the banner gets messed up. The banner inserts at a place (top or bottom banner) that makes the most sense to it, remembering "it" is only coding that can't think -- it just does what it was programmed (or coded) to do. I think I've read on this list that other problems in a page can affect banner placement, too. I've also read that if using Frames, RW banners will appear in every frame (box). So, look in your HTML first. Make sure your HEAD tags (open, close), body tags (open, close), and HTML tags (open, close) are all present, and where they should be. If you run your code through the HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ it will tell you if the page has problems. Lastly, post the URLs of problem pages so people on the List can look at your code and help. Judy On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com> wrote: > > Has Rootsweb made changes to the banner at the foot of the page in the last > few days? It had previously been at the very bottom of the page, but is now > about 1/4 inch above the bottom and I find that several of the pages in my > website has become distorted. Since I haven't made any changes I can only > assume the change to the banner has been the cause of this. > > Beverly > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:19:37 -0600 From: Lorrie Laskey <lrmalcom@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D52BE99.3090301@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Beverly and list, Mine is doing the same thing. I noted this a few weeks ago but assumed I had caused it. Does your bottom banner look like mine. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~docex/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Edocex/> I wonder if other sites displaying the same behavior. Lorrie On 02/09/11 05:09, Beverly Watson wrote: > Has Rootsweb made changes to the banner at the foot of the page in the last few days? It had previously been at the very bottom of the page, but is now about 1/4 inch above the bottom and I find that several of the pages in my website has become distorted. Since I haven't made any changes I can only assume the change to the banner has been the cause of this. > > Beverly > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:59:59 -0500 From: Pat Geary <pat@the-gearys.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com>, <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <201102091700.p19H04Lp025355@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 06:09 AM 2/9/2011, Beverly Watson wrote: >Has Rootsweb made changes to the banner at the foot of the page in >the last few days? It had previously been at the very bottom of the >page, but is now about 1/4 inch above the bottom and I find that >several of the pages in my website has become distorted. Since I >haven't made any changes I can only assume the change to the banner >has been the cause of this. > Mine appear to be displaying just fine, banner on top and bottom flush with top of browser window. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/ pat ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:04:32 -0600 From: Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: <pat@the-gearys.com>, <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <COL104-W56D83DCFAC836E1CA3177E8BED0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Pat, I had responded earlier to Lorrie's note but forgot to address to the list as well. See below, I am no longer having issues with the banner. Lorrie, No, I see that the Ancestry logo on your footer appears to have a shadow. The footer on my pages was about 1/4 inch above the bottom of the page, but I have since discovered that it must have something to do with the settings on my browser because now from my computer at work, my website is still just as it's supposed to be - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~watsonbev/ (I'm adding the link but there doesn't seem to be anything amiss now.) I have been having some browser issues at home and have been resetting various things and have set everything back to the original default settings, etc. Something about that must have caused the distortions to my website. Guess I'll go home and try to change my brower settings back to whatever they were before. Beverly Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:59:59 -0500 To: beverly_wat@msn.com; freepages-help@rootsweb.com From: pat@the-gearys.com Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages At 06:09 AM 2/9/2011, Beverly Watson wrote: Has Rootsweb made changes to the banner at the foot of the page in the last few days? It had previously been at the very bottom of the page, but is now about 1/4 inch above the bottom and I find that several of the pages in my website has become distorted. Since I haven't made any changes I can only assume the change to the banner has been the cause of this. Mine appear to be displaying just fine, banner on top and bottom flush with top of browser window. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/ pat ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:07:25 -0500 From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: Beverly Watson <beverly_wat@msn.com> Cc: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AANLkTinPDUw87oP4Fr8Jk5321qoZypv715Wi92krKB7e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:41 AM, J.A. Florian <cageycat@gmail.com> wrote: > Beverly, > > The top banner looks for the opening html and opening body tag. > > The top banner looks for the closing /body tag and closing /html tag. > == Ooops, I meant my 2nd sentence to say "The bottom banner..." Sorry if my typo caused any confusion. Judy ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:24:49 +1300 From: "Barry Carlson" <barrycarls@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: "Lorrie Laskey" <lrmalcom@bellsouth.net>, <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <377FB1BEC08646DBAA36B7CD7CA046E6@BERT> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original On Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:19 AM (UTC+13) Lorrie wrote:- > Mine is doing the same thing. I noted this a few weeks ago but assumed I > had caused it. Does your bottom banner look like mine. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~docex/ > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Edocex/> > > I wonder if other sites displaying the same behavior. ---------------------- Lorrie, There is interaction with styles in the bottom banner from one or more of the 3 styles sheets you are using. Any of your <a> styles could be causing the "center center" problem with the Ancestry link image, and likewise with the bolding of the link text. I suggest you prefix any of those "a" styles with .container, or some other id/class that will keep them from being generic. Barry ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:11:07 -0600 From: Lorrie Laskey <lrmalcom@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Distorted Pages To: Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com> Cc: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D52F4DB.7050506@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Barry, I'll work on that. Randy fixed the problem with the footer in my page. The cause was a conflict between my styles and those of rootsweb, as I suspected. Your comments confirm that. Thanks. Lorrie On 02/09/11 13:24, Barry Carlson wrote: > On Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:19 AM (UTC+13) > Lorrie wrote:- > >> Mine is doing the same thing. I noted this a few weeks ago but assumed I >> had caused it. Does your bottom banner look like mine. >> >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~docex/ >> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Edocex/> >> >> I wonder if other sites displaying the same behavior. > ---------------------- > Lorrie, > > There is interaction with styles in the bottom banner from one or more > of the 3 styles sheets you are using. > > Any of your <a> styles could be causing the "center center" problem > with the Ancestry link image, and likewise with the bolding of the > link text. > > I suggest you prefix any of those "a" styles with .container, or some > other id/class that will keep them from being generic. > > Barry > ------------------------------ To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. 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