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First post, by Retrocavern

Posted on 2024-11-10, 07:10

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Hello, I have come across an issue that has been bugging me lately. I recently started working on a website/repository of old software and I'm using frontpage 98. Now I know that may not be the ideal choice for creating a website in this day and age, but I want it to be compatible with old computers. Whenever I create a new page and save either of them. The one that it saves copies over to all the other pages that I have. So, if i save index.htm then it copies it to contact.htm. But it has a completely different background similar to the theme that I applied. I removed the theme from the web pages, but it still copies over, anyone have any clue what I should do? Thanks

Reply 1 of 1, by soggi

Posted on 2024-11-17, 05:09

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Welcome to VOGONS!

I can't help you with your specific Frontpage 98 problem, sorry.

I recommend to write the HTML your own, so you can be sure to create fully W3C validated (and therefor very compatible) pages. If this is new to you, you can start with very simple HTML without using CSS, it's relatively easy. I wrote my website's pages (and CSS) from scratch by learning from Self HTML and other tutorials or inspecting other website's HTML. Back then I started using Notepad but quickly noticed this is really uncomfortable - so I switched to Notepad++ which has many useful functions (like tabs, syntax highlighting or ASCII AND UTF-8 support) and I still use it today.

Frontpage also adds unwanted things to the HTML...this I learned very early in the process of building websites.

Also very important is to NOT use frames/framesets, table designs (abusing tables to design the look), Flash, Java (not to be confused with JavaScript, which should also be avoided) and some other no-gos if you want to create a clean website which even is fast on old computers and browsers.

kind regards
soggi

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