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[sercofrades Friend sercofradesJoin date: January 2009Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5]

#137845

Hi, I’m going to open my website on February the 25th and I need help.

http://www.sercofrades.com/SC

Yesterday I was uploading an article and had problems uploading a picture. I went to a forum and it said to set off the flash upload and it worked. After that y could upload the picture and update the article.

Once I got into the main page of the website there were a disorder of the colums, left, center and right and I don’t know what to do…

Please, help me.

Thanks.

[jsliao Friend jsliaoJoin date: April 2008Posts: 817Downloads:0Uploads:12 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 236 times in 210 posts]

#289900

which article did u add? try removing it to see if it changes anything?

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1. sercofrades

[sercofrades Friend sercofradesJoin date: January 2009Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5]

#289903

Nothing, yesterday I removed the picture, published and unpublished the article… Nothing.

I thing it could be the change I did in global preferences about the flash upload; the change I did could be record on server this error.

Panic, Panic, Panic…

I’m about to reset the site…

[bennitos Friend bennitosJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1717Downloads:0Uploads:39 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 474 times in 407 posts]

#289915

Did you copy paste content into your articles?

Like from microsoft word or from another website?

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1. sercofrades

[sercofrades Friend sercofradesJoin date: January 2009Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5]

#289916

Yes, i did. What can I do?

[bennitos Friend bennitosJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1717Downloads:0Uploads:39 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 474 times in 407 posts]

#289917

If you copy paste content in directly then you are also copying all kinda hidden tags (especially from microsoft word) and all kind of hiden styling. Wich are now most likely conflicting with your website.

If you want to copy in text then a good thing to do is copy it from word to notepad (wich will remove all hiden tags) and then copy from notepad into your article.

Best thing to do now is recreate your articles and make them without all hiden tags with a method like above.

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1. sercofrades

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#289918

I think bennitos is saying, if you copy and paste your articles, from say, Word, then this can cause problems.

Copy from Word to Notepad, then to article, NEVER direct from Word, it contains horrible stuff!!

Remove everything in the articles and start again, pasting form Notepad (or Notebook, or whatever they call it in Windows! I use Mac!).

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1. sercofrades

[sercofrades Friend sercofradesJoin date: January 2009Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5]

#289919

IT WORKED, THANKS.

May I use Textedit on OSX?

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#289920

Absolutely, but make sure you use the Format menu and “Make Plain Text” (shift-apple-t) before you paste. That will stop any problems or strange code arriving in your articles.

Glad to hear it worked!

Good luck with your site.
Chris

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#289946

I think you can use Wordpad as well if anyone wants to. It also takes away the extra tons of lines of code that Microsoft Word ads to anything you type.

[jsliao Friend jsliaoJoin date: April 2008Posts: 817Downloads:0Uploads:12 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 236 times in 210 posts]

#289947

word pad still has some form of formatting iirc.

and i think he is using OSX so im not too sure about what plain text editors are available on wordpad.

anyway glad your problem is sovled.

cheers

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