website no loading

[teacher1]

Hi! For the past few days I have been checking my website. It is not loading all of the pages. I tried to load my website again (with Frontpage), but it is doing the same thing (not loading all the pages). Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

[Skizzerz]

Hello,

When I view your site (e.g. your resume page), I see that you have the text color as invisible (hit ctrl+a to select all and you'll see what I mean). You'll need to fix your website so that the text color is something that can be seen, like black.

[teacher1]

I am not sure how to fix the invisible text. I went back to Frontpage and on each page highlighted all of the text and changed it to black. I published the webpages again, but it is still showing up with invisible text. Do I need to do something on the control panel. I'm not sure how this happened either, because when it was originally published all the text showed up. It only changed over the last few times I checked the site. Do you have any suggestions for me?

[Skizzerz]

I'm not familiar with Frontpage as I've never used it, but I'm thinking that in order to fix this, you'll need to go outside of Frontpage.

First, close completely out of Frontpage by saving and then hitting the "X" at the top right. If you do not, your changes may simply get overwritten, which wouldn't be good.

Second, browse to your website's files in Explorer and go to the file "_themes\strtedge\strtedge1011.css" and open it in Notepad. Once in Notepad, open up the Find dialog by hitting Ctrl+F and search for the word "transparent". The very first result will get you a bit of code looking like so:

TABLE{
table-border-color-light:#CCCC99;
table-border-color-dark:#999966;
border-color:#999966;
color:transparent;
}

You need to remove the line with "color:transparent" so that it looks like the following instead:

TABLE{
table-border-color-light:#CCCC99;
table-border-color-dark:#999966;
border-color:#999966;
}

Once you make that one change, save the file and exit Notepad. You should then be able to re-open Frontpage and publish your website and it SHOULD work again.

EDIT: Also, you may want to consider not using Frontpage in the future -- Microsoft discontinued support for it ages ago and it no longer receives any form of updates. Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver are two replacement products you may wish to look into

[teacher1]

Thanks so much for your advice. I did follow your instructions, but when I publish my site it still shows up with the transparent text. I don't know what to do right now, especially since it is all completed in Frontpage. Thanks again for your help!

[Skizzerz]

Hmm,

I really do not know what to say besides that there is something messed up in Frontpage. Until you can figure out what, you can make that same edit I described above directly on your account, here's how:

1. Publish your site with Frontpage
2. After it is published, log into your cPanel (https://carringtonportfolio.x10hosting.com:2083 for SSL or http://carringtonportfolio.x10hosting.com:2082 for non-SSL)
3. Open up File Manager and browse to public_html/_themes/strtedge
4. Right-click strtedge1011.css and select "Code Edit"
5. Find that same line as above and remove it, then save
6. Reload your website by hitting Ctrl+F5 or Shift+Click the refresh button to clear your browser cache and it should show up