Tuesday, December 13, 2005
to daManual Users
In my zeal for "continuous improvement", what is now proved itself to be a pernicious leftover from my "suit" days, I had seriously messed up the left side navigation column on all the pages. All has been repaired, so if you left in disgust, why not try again?
I did fix the problem, which was a misunderstanding on my part of how to code "included content". Frontpage is rather limited in how it does this. It will pull in pages from within your website only. Thus, if you include a real link, tough noogies, the Frontpage handler on my server doesn't recognize it and will dish up the page showing the link text and not the content, which in this case was the left navigation column showing all the daManual chapters. Soooooo, the correct FP protocol is to insert the relative URL. I tested this on another site I manage, so I better go check that now. What is curious to me, though, is that those abslute links DID work for a few days. Why they stopped working is one of those coding unfathomable inponderables.
I gotta say, What a pain! I'm still trying to figure out if there is ordinary HTML or java code to insert "included content" into a page, code that circumvents FP altogether. This would be especially nice for my Blogger managed pages, which for some reason don't recognize the FP "weboot" code.
Labels: ensign
At last, over the rim
of the waiting earth
the moon lifted with
slow majesty
till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off,
free of moorings
- Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows
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