Question about question marks?

clipse · 02-21-2006, 07:35 AM

I'm build a website for out local county with microsoft publisher2003. I uploaded it to my own person FTP site and every thing was fine. Then I upload it to the counties FTP and I get all the question marks where the appostrophies and quote marks should be. I know that the county's webhosting guys are using 'Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS) Server'. Here is a link to one of the pages. Ignore the messed up links on the pictures.

Any ideas?

Thanks

clipse · 02-21-2006, 09:37 AM

Just thought I would add. When I upload the same file to the FTP server through my personal ISP, it shows up fine.

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~clipse/i...s/page0002.htm

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 09:52 AM

The code is way to complex, did you ever use FrontPage or DreamWeaver? Publisher is not the right tool to use for making webpages.
I will guess that if you did this in FP or DW you would get the code down to less the 5% off what it is right now.

clipse · 02-21-2006, 09:57 AM

I've never used front page or dreamweaver. The only reason I used publisher is because thats what I happen to have on my computer. Looks like I'll need to get ahold of another program. Any suggestions as to where would be the best place to get either front page or dreamweaver?

clipse

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 10:14 AM

Well any computer store or online http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/ http://www.microsoft.com/office/fron...y/default.mspx
do you have knowlage about bulding webpages?
FrontPage might be eayser to start out with if you have no knowlage and know other office products
Otherwise you can get a good idea about web technologies here, look for html/xhtml and css http://www.w3schools.com/

clipse · 02-21-2006, 10:18 AM

I have a very basic knoledge of building websites. I first started with http://www.w3schools.com/ but it would take me forever to make one like I want, just typing out all the code. I think I'll got with Frontpage and see if I can get the county to pay for it. If not then I will be shopping around to get the best deal I can.

Thanks,

Nate

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 10:19 AM

No problem

clipse · 02-21-2006, 10:21 AM

Sorry to be a bother but, why is this one so much cheaper?

http://www.costcaptain.com/Merchant2...roduct_Count=0

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 10:28 AM

dont know, could be an OEM version, but it dosent appear like it, maybe do a little googeling to if the compagny has a bad rep or sell illigal copies

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 10:29 AM

ahhh

Quote:

This area of our Web site is dedicated to Qualified Educational Users only. The academic edition products that are displayed are only available to Qualified Educational Users, as that term is defined on Microsoft’s Education Web site at www.microsoft.com/education/license/eligible.asp.

clipse · 02-21-2006, 01:55 PM

Just found a local company that has for just over $100 and the county will pay for it.

Thanks again for all the help.

clipse

jwalsh · 02-21-2006, 09:41 PM

It always makes me laugh to realize that the code generated by MICROSOFT publisher, won't even parse correctly in MICROSOFT internet explorer.

clipse · 02-27-2006, 09:24 AM

I'm still having problems with the question marks. Anyone else seeing this or is just me? I got Frontpage 2003 thinking that would fix the problem and I started all over with website. What do you guy think?

http://www.andrewcounty.org/home.htm

Here is the code for the paragraph with the question marks.

Quote:

<div style="width: 345px; position: absolute; height: 135px; left: 160px; top: 165px">
<div class="shape" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 2.85pt; PADDING-LEFT: 2.85pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2.85pt; PADDING-TOP: 2.85pt" v:shape="_x0000_s1057">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7pt; mso-pagination: none">
<span style="language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN; font-weight:700">
<font size="2">Welcome to Andrew
County’s first ever, website. For information on contacting one of the
offices please click on “County Offices” and choose which office you are
looking for.
</font>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>

**Cricket** · 02-27-2006, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clipse

I'm still having problems with the question marks. Anyone else seeing this or is just me? I got Frontpage 2003 thinking that would fix the problem and I started all over with website. What do you guy think?

http://www.andrewcounty.org/home.htm

Here is the code for the paragraph with the question marks.

Make sure you have declared the character encodings in the header for starters. What FTP program are you using? It sounds like one of your settings is causing this. Experiment with different settings or using auto as the preference. As a last resort, you can replace characters with the character codes in the html code.