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penne

Posts: 31
Member since: 6/25/2004

Active X control

Hi. After uploading a site I designed, it was working fine (in XP). But when someone tried to bring it up on their laptop (which uses Vista) it won't work properly. It is saying to install Active X control. I have allowed it and it still won't work. Saying unknown publisher.
So the sites navigation buttons all have the little red x on them and on the right side of the page it is all white space.
Please help so I can fix this for the person I designed this site for. Thank you for your time.
Penne

p.s. the site is ONCconstruction.com if you need to take a look at it (in Vista)

Report Abuse | Date: 10/6/2008 5:06:21 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

Posts: 7039
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: USA

RE: Active X control (in reply to penne)

You are using java applets for your navigation.
This is absolutely the worst choice you could have made (although I know FrontPage makes this choice very easy).
Use CSS, or image swaps instead.
Java isn't installed by default on most windows operating systems, you must download it from the Sun web site. Java is different from javascript, by the way. Each of your "hover buttons" is a separate java applet that must be downloaded and run as separate programs. They cannot be followed by the search engines. The user must have Sun Java installed to see them. They crash older browsers.

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Report Abuse | Date: 10/6/2008 8:14:41 AM

penne

Posts: 31
Member since: 6/25/2004

RE: Active X control (in reply to penne)

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly. Not sure how to go about using CSS or image swaps. Should I just google these to find out how to use them? I only know how to use FP at this time.
So you are saying not to use the FP hover buttons right? Do you recommend a better program? I have paint shop pro and photshop. I have been trying to learn how to use them.
I am going back to school in January for web design so I can learn about script, code and flash.
Thank you for your time in this matter.
Penne

Report Abuse | Date: 10/6/2008 8:40:10 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

Posts: 7039
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: USA

RE: Active X control (in reply to penne)

CSS is the way to go--
You can turn a simple unordered list ike this:
<ul>
<li><a href="link1.htm">Link One</a></li>
<li><a href="link2.htm">Link Two</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.htm">Link Three</a></li>
</ul>
into beautiful interactive rollovers.
Here is a nice site featuring CSS menus: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/
Here is a great site showing you the power of CSS: http://www.csszengarden.com
The site shows the exact same html displayed many different ways by ONLY changing the CSS! Very cool.
Here is the tutorial site for CSS http://www.w3schools.com/css/

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Report Abuse | Date: 10/7/2008 7:33:29 AM