Where did my navigation menu go?

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  1. #1
    Ok, look at my site www.goalierthanthou.com and on the right my nav bar is gone. It is gone on all files even though they all have the include command except the index and the navbar file is uploaded correctly.

    Help!

    Derek
     
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  2. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #2
    Hi there

    You picked the wrong size google ad format which is making the center body overlap the right column hiding your menu

    My two cents
     
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    #3
    you mean the 460 banner? I have always used it and this is the first time I've had a problem so I doubt it because even pages when I don't have any ads are like this.

    Derek
     
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    #4
    <center>
    <?
    include("navbar.html");
    ?></center>

    Server doesn't support SSI??
     
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    #5
    well it worked before, like up until this week i think.

    Derek
     
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    #6
    Any chance you were hosted by web.com which was taken over by interland.com ??

    Or

    What changes did you make to your website this week?
     
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    Colleen Illustrious Member

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    Also, can you check your error log? I just tried fixing up the code and testing on my server and it doesn't work there either.
     
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  9. Colleen

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    #9
    I got it to work, I will post what I used plus I cleaned up your code, I'd prefer you used it as your code isn't clean right now. :D

    index file
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <title>Goalie - Goalier Than Thou</title>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	  <meta name="description" content="Goalie is an Amazing Position, Learn about all about it here at the Ultimate Resource for every goalie!">
   <meta name="keywords" content="goalie, goalies, goaltending, hockey, goalie instruction, goalie equipment, goalie pads">
<style type="text/css">
<!-- A {color: "white"; text-decoration: none} a:hover{color: "black"; text-decoration: none}.style4 {
	font-size: 24px;
	font-family: "Comic Sans MS";
	color: #0099FF;
}
.style6 {color: #000}
.style8 {color: #0000FF}
body { color: #000; background: #fff; margin: 0; }
a:link, a:visited, a:active { color: #fff }
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
&nbsp;
<table width="620" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" align="center">
	<tr bgcolor="#0099FF">
		<td align="center" valign="middle" colspan="2">
			<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/derekmalcolm123/logo.gif" height="125" width="274" alt="goalie"></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
			<blockquote>&nbsp;
<p align="center"><h1 align="center">Goalie - The Ultimate Evolution </h1>
<p align="center"><span class="style4">WELCOME TO GOALIERTHANTHOU.COM</span></p>

<p align="center"><span class="style6">GoalierThanThou.com is a site designed for every <em><strong>goalie</strong></em>, by goalies, to help goalies learn about the position. The site features in depth analysis of technical aspects of the sport. It features drills to make the average goalie a pro and of course it features articles and gossip about a goalie's favourite thing...THE EQUIPMENT.</span>
    <center>
     <script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8830225638153182";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="3249107104";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "FFFFFF";
google_color_url = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
    </center>
<p align="center">Search through tons of articles on all that as well as fitness training specified for goaltenders, the current events in the world of goaltenders, and profiles on NHL goalies and their stats.
<p align="center">ATTENTION: If you would be interested in writing articles for this site, please write one and <a href="mailto:malcolm@adsenseoptimized.com" class="style8">e-mail it to me</a> and if I like it I will publish it. Any articles about anything goalie help and I would love to get my viewers involved. 

<p align="center"><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8830225638153182";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="3249107104";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "FFFFFF";
google_color_url = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></center>If you have any ideas to improve the site just <a href="mailto:malcolm@adsenseoptimized.com" class="style8">e-mail me</a> and let me know as I'm trying to make this site as <em><strong>goalie</strong></em> friendly as possible. <br>
&nbsp;
</blockquote></td>
		<td width="150" bgcolor="#0099ff" valign="top" align="center">
<!--#include file="navbar.html" --></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="10" align="center">
	<font face="Tahoma"><font size="-1">© CopyRight 2005 GoalierThanThou.Com All rights Reserved.</font></font> "Goalie Logo &copy;C. Cleary 2004"</td>
	</tr>
</table>
&nbsp;
</body>

</html>
    Code (markup):
    .htaccess file
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes 
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi 
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
    Code (markup):
    And remove the body tag from navbar.html, it's not necessary.
     
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    #10
    I've been over the validation before and I've never had this problem...didn't really make any changes to my site...

    my error log shows file does not exist errors on the files 404.shtml which I don't understand, plus also a file does not exist error on favicon.ico, and so I'm still lost...

    OHH....also I did change around one .htaccess file but I thought it was for a different folder...actually it was under the /www folder which could be a problem because all other domains are under that /www/goaliesite etc.
     
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    #11
    i updated the navbar on the homepage and the code but it no longer has the include code in the index...

    Derek
     
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    #13
    ok, the index is working but what about the rest of the pages?
     
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    #14
    You'll have to unclude the navbar as I did.

    <!--#include file="navbar.html" -->
    Code (markup):
     
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    #15
    include it where? in the other pages?

    Derek
     
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    #16
    Ya messing with the htaccess file is a bad idea if you are not 100% sure of what to do there.

    I'd contact the host.

    Colleen that was very nice of you to help with the coding

    :)
     
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    #17
    Yes, replace your include code in all pages with what I used, and did you upload that .htaccess code (or add to your existing .htaccess if there is one) to your root folder?

    Thanks, Sem-Advance. ;)
     
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    #18
    yes thank you colleen

    I uploaded it in my goalie sit edirectory...not the /www root folder no...

    Also, if I have a website under the /www folder then other sites under /www/goalie (for example) how do I do a 301 redirect of the main site? Because obviously the .htaccess thing hurt my other sites.
     
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    Yes, that's what I meant, the root of the goalie site.

    It shouldn't affect your other sites. How is it affecting them?
     
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    #20
    Talk to your web host to get it straight

    It is safer that way, otherwise things could get worse.
     
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