Hey Folks...

I'm the guy who wrote "The Day Computers Died", and the Edgar Allen Poe "Raven" parody...

I met a lot of nice people in this forum, and was hoping some of you who know html could help me with some problems I am having with my church webpage.

When I try to look at my one of my pages http://www.thechristianchurch.com/chiefland with Netscape Navigator 4.08, instead of showing me the page, it shows me the source... But it shows up ok with Internet Explorer...

I get an error message which tells me "line 11, char 1" syntax error... but for the life of me I can not find anything wrong...

I have had people tell me they cannot access my site... I don't want to tell them to get rid of their Netscape...

Also, the main page, http://www.thechristianchurch.com is viewable with IE but with Netscape I only get the background...

Can anybody help me?

-- Duane Schwingel (tree3@svic.net), October 02, 1999

Answers

I get to your site fine with my Netscape 4.04....but all that is there is some nice goldish wallpaper background....What Web composer are you using? Or are you just typing HTML?

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 02, 1999.

Hi Duane - Loved your parodies!

I'm not much help. In Internet Explorer both pages look great. But in Netscape Communicator 4.6.1 I get the same results as Donna. The first one, source code only. The second one, the gold background only.

I wish I could tell you why! Good luck.

-- mommacarestx (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), October 02, 1999.

My guess is that the error is due to the page name ("chiefland") not ending in ".htm" or ".html". Modern browsers probably compensate for this using a little "artificial intelligence", but old ones not.

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), October 02, 1999.

I just copy and paste other people's html....

I will change it to /chiefland.html and see if that helps...

http://www.thechristianchurch.com/chiefland.html

-- Duane Schwingel (tree3@svic.net), October 02, 1999.

Y2K Gardener!... You da man!

chiefland.html works great....

Now I just gotta figure out why the MAIN index.html page, thechristianchurch.com, doesnt work with Netscape...

-- Duane (tree3@svic.net), October 02, 1999.

Oh, doh!....I didn't even LOOK at the source. Caramba! Yes, she does have her own multi-doc page,...really she does. It's simple but cute and mine... http://home.pacbell.net/moment Bravo Y2K Gardener!!

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 02, 1999.

I get both pages fine with Netscape 4.01 but when I click to enter I get a error.. Hope that helps...

-- Stash (stashin@yahoo.com), October 03, 1999.