Problems with nav... i think

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by P-James, Oct 14, 2015.

  1. #1
    Hello, am new to this forum, but am pretty sure I have posted in the proper area.

    I was hoping someone out there is able to shed some light on an issue I've been having for about 3 days now.

    I make sites in my spare time and am by no means a professional.

    I am creating this website Apple TV using a free template.

    All is well until you try and go to the last 3 pages on my nav bar called content (#content2), Purchase (#purchase), and Contact (#contact) if you are on the homepage.. nothing happens, unless you are on another page, then it will take you back to the home page (or one of the other upper pages, depending on which you click on).

    Either way, the url does change to the correct address in the address bar and if you highlight it and hit return, it will actually bring the correct page up.

    But then you are stuck in the bottom three pages (and subpages) on the nav until you do the same as above (highlight the url > return) to get back to the upper pages.


    It seems like as soon as I exceeded 8 pages/ sub pages... is when this started to happen.

    I’m hoping a fresh set of eyes can catch whatever it is that I seem to be overlooking.

    If you need me to post any of my code, just let me know.


    Any help would be awesome and greatly appreciated.
     
    Last edited: Oct 15, 2015
    P-James, Oct 14, 2015 IP
  2. PoPSiCLe

    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    #2
    You are aware that you haven't included a link we can use to actually see your page, right?
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    He probably has problems with links, globally speaking.
     
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  4. P-James

    P-James Peon

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    Hey PoPSiCLe,

    Thank you! I had copy and pasted out of word, but was a little brain dead from trying to figure out my problem.

    Also, I have tried clearing my cache and history in my browsers. Have tried in IE, FF, and Chrome.

    Oh yeah, my link is http://www.googlexbmctv.com/.

    Thanks again.
     
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    P-James Peon

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    Hi Guys,

    Thanks for the feedback...

    I got it now, my #content div was too narrow for the content. So I changed it from 7000 pixels wide to 100000 pixels. Now all scrolls correctly.

    Oh yeah, and webcosmo, I have many problems, but links are not one them... generally.

    Thanks once again.
     
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  6. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Generally speaking that free template is rubbish and a laundry list of how NOT to build a website. It uses fonts declared in pixels so they do not "dynamically scale" to the user preferences, it uses a fixed height so you have to design the layout to the content and not the other way around, it's not responsive so it's useless on small screen, and the use of JavaScript and internal link navigation for what should be separate pages is a waste of both bandwidth and resources.

    I'd suggest tossing it in the bin and starting over, taking the time to learn how to build a website properly instead of blindly trusting some "gee ain't it neat" off the shelf garbage guaranteed to piss off users. To be brutally frank whoever wrote that template as no business building websites.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    Sorry about that, man.
    Your site is a bit slow and uses a lot of resources, it could be done with less code.. I already see that modifications to this page are very hard to implement, if you plan to change it further, you will just have a big headache.
     
    webcosmo, Oct 16, 2015 IP