Need help

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by johngrc, Aug 18, 2012.

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    I used frontpage to build the site.
    I have included a counter and search boxes in site but don't work. Also the form (in the contact page) do not work.
    any suggestions welcome.


    the website is http://www.johngrc.com/
     
    johngrc, Aug 18, 2012 IP
  2. MultiCoder

    MultiCoder Active Member

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    You'll need to use server side scripting like php or some kind of 3.part sevice, like google custom search etc. to do that. There might exist some already made scripts for that, that you can find if you do a search on google.
     
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Wow, it's been like two or three YEARS since I've seen anyone say that... Given the product was discontinued five years ago...

    Well there's your problem

    Or at least part of it. Counter and search boxes are the LEAST of your worries here, but again WYSIWYGS exist to TRICK you into thinking you can build a website. You've been fooled into thinking you can drag and drop and edit on the page -- that's not how the Internet is meant to work and ignores several dozen things essential to making a website properly.

    You've got framesets (something deprecated for almost a decade and a half), presentational markup, bad character encoding, non-breaking spaces for christmas only knows what, no doctypes in ANY of your documents meaning you're stuck in quirks mode, presentational images and style in the markup, non-semantic markup, entities doing a proper character encoding's job (like say... UTF-8), pointless SPAN for no good reason, basically a laundry list of how NOT to build a website.

    Frontpage was the wrong way to build a site 15 years ago... NOBODY has ANY business using it for anything in 2012. This is NOT 1997, and that's NOT how a website should be built. (and yes, I say the EXACT same thing about dreamweaver).

    Sorry to say, these cheap and sleazy shortcuts are NOT going to let you build a website. you need to learn HTML, learn CSS, then come back and rewrite using semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, and the dozen other real-world improvements of the past decade.

    As I tell a LOT of people, throw that away and start over, there's nothing worth even TRYING to save in that.
     
    deathshadow, Aug 18, 2012 IP