Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Jan 2, 2011 16:40:03 GMT -4
I've decided to change the name of the "Photography" section to "Imagery" because I'm likely to also examine some of the TV transmissions.
I'm also inserting a new section titled "Science". I think it's important to take some time to discuss what the astronauts did on the Moon and what we learned from it.
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Post by theteacher on Jan 2, 2011 16:41:15 GMT -4
If it is only some pages, could you point to a specific page that displays the problem?
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Post by gillianren on Jan 2, 2011 16:54:36 GMT -4
Technically, a "factoid" is something people think is a fact but is not.
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Post by Ginnie on Jan 2, 2011 17:34:45 GMT -4
If it is only some pages, could you point to a specific page that displays the problem? Umm, they're all over the place... the BACK button too suffers from the same problem sometimes. Seems the problem in a lot of the links is instead of /space/race/ link.htm it is coded as /space/race/..\ link.htmHere's one page where the HOME button is mis-linked: www.braeunig.us/space/race/slide004.htmHere the BACK button is mis-linked: www.braeunig.us/space/race/slide001.htm
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Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Jan 2, 2011 18:04:44 GMT -4
They're all working for me. The particular BACK button example you point out is coded differently than the others (since it is the first slide). It uses the same type of code as the HOME buttons, i.e. it sends you back to the parent folder. It definitely looks like your Browser is not recognizing the ../ code. Instead of seeing ../ as an instruction to change folder, it thinks it's part of the file name. What Browser are you using?
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Post by Tanalia on Jan 2, 2011 18:11:15 GMT -4
Those links are broken for me also; they show up using ..\ in the middle, not ../
Using Firefox on Windows.
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Post by Mr Gorsky on Jan 2, 2011 18:17:18 GMT -4
Bob,
It is a while since I have coded a lot in HTML, but I snuck a look at the source for the first couple of Home and Back links and you appear to have used "..\" as the instruction to go up one folder level, and I am pretty sure I always used "../" (i.e. the slash the other way around.
Whatever the issue, I am using Firefox and getting a ...
The requested URL was not found on this server.
... error every time.
Hope this helps.
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Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Jan 2, 2011 18:23:01 GMT -4
Yes, I just figured that out. I started out using ../ but somewhere along the line I mistakenly typed ..\ Unfortuantely I used the page with the mistake as a template for all the others. I'm in the process of fixing it now.
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Post by capricorn1 on Jan 2, 2011 18:35:43 GMT -4
From my inexperienced perspective, it's a great site! The only input I have is from a web optimisation view...... Have one of these in the header with 4-5 relevant keywords.... <META name="keywords" content="xxx,xxxx,xxxx...."> Make sure the first keyword in that tag is the H1 tag and is included in the page content a few times. Makes more visitors. There's lots more you can do, but on such selective keywords that should do the trick.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 2, 2011 18:41:17 GMT -4
Some text editors will let you search & replace text in multiple documents. It makes making changes like that easier.
Another thing I recommend is using "server side includes" when working with webpages that use identical code. For example, if all your pages use the same header and footer, you can create the header and footer as separate files and then tell the other pages to include them when viewed. That way changes to the header and footer only involve modifying two files, not a hundred.
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Post by Bob B. on Jan 2, 2011 18:46:49 GMT -4
Some text editors will let you search & replace text in multiple documents. It makes making changes like that easier. Too late, I'm already done. Hopefully all the links will work now. Sorry about the problem. Strange that IE recognizes both ../ and ..\ the same. Another thing I recommend is using "server side includes" when working with webpages that use identical code. For example, if all your pages use the same header and footer, you can create the header and footer as separate files and then tell the other pages to include them when viewed. That way changes to the header and footer only involve modifying two files, not a hundred. I think I'm too far along now to change, but this is good advise for the future.
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Post by theteacher on Jan 2, 2011 18:57:15 GMT -4
Strange that IE recognizes both ../ and ..\ the same. ..\ is used in MS-dos-scripting. Internet Explorer is an MS-product, ergo - maybe? :-)
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 2, 2011 19:05:07 GMT -4
Too late, I'm already done. Hopefully all the links will work now. Sorry about the problem. No big deal, that's what we're here for. I think IE recognizes common coding errors and corrects them... which is both good and bad. Sure the page works for anyone using IE, but it means the coder might not realize there is a problem in other browsers until someone else points it out to them. I remember when I first created TheSpaceRace.com I had the header, footer, and left side menu coded into every page. So whenever I added something to the menu I had to make the same modification to over 50 pages. So I love "server side includes".
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 2, 2011 21:22:17 GMT -4
From my inexperienced perspective, it's a great site! The only input I have is from a web optimisation view...... Have one of these in the header with 4-5 relevant keywords.... <META name="keywords" content="xxx,xxxx,xxxx...."> Make sure the first keyword in that tag is the H1 tag and is included in the page content a few times. Makes more visitors. There's lots more you can do, but on such selective keywords that should do the trick. Actually search engines no longer support the Keywords Metatag. The only Metatag still supported is NoRobots. On the browser issue, I find it best to test a page in as many browsers as possible (I have a machine at work, and my laptop, loaded with IE, FireFox, Chrome, Netscape, Flock, Opera, Avant, and Safari) just to see how it will apear for other browsers. I find that IE has a lot of stuff including formating in it that the others don't. This can be handy, though many would say that it's not supporting the standards to have things like <basefont> tags.
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Post by ka9q on Jan 2, 2011 23:14:20 GMT -4
Out of everything I’ve written so far, the thing I’m most uncomfortable with is on the "After Apollo..." page, in which I wrote: "To assure the Saturn V would not be resurrected as a competitor to the Space Shuttle, Saturn V production capability was destroyed."I've heard this claim too, but I've never seen it substantiated anywhere. It could be an urban legend or it could be true; I'd like to see a well-documented source too.
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