Hi,
Replace from the body tag down to the first row of your table
---- THIS -----
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff link="#990000" vlink="#4B0612" alink="#993333"
topMargin=10 marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=744 align=center border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD colspan="2"><img src="images/banner.jpg" alt="Jim Boring Real
Estate Investments" width="751" height="171"></TD>
</TR>
-------------------
with this
--------- THAT ----------
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff link="#990000" vlink="#4B0612" alink="#993333"
topMargin=10 marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=752 align=center border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><img src="http://www.jimboringrealestate.com/images/banner.jpg"
alt="Jim Boring Real Estate Investments" width="751"
height="171"></TD>
</TR>
</table>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=744 align=center border=0>
<TBODY>
---------------------------
Replace your banner.jpg file with this one (save a copy of your
original first of course)
http://www.webadept.net/banner_lite.jpg
Rename it to banner.jpg and put it on your server. This is probably
not the problem but your original is 42k in size. The one I have there
is about half that size and will load much faster.
And let me know how that turns out. If all is right with your world
I'll write you up an explanation of all the minor changes I made for
your future reference.
webadept-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
mesamike-ga
on
14 Apr 2005 16:05 PDT
Hi Webadept-ga,
I took your advice and also refined it with some of the other comments
and it still didn't work. I even just create a very simple webpage
taking into account your comments below at
http://jimboringrealestate.com/tester1.htm and on the laptop that
doesn't read the banner, it just shows the two text lines right next
to each other. The code for my simple webpage is:
---------------------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<BODY bgColor="#ffffff" link="#990000" vlink="#4B0612" alink="#993333"
topMargin=10 marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
Before Banner
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=744 align=center border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><img src="http://www.jimboringrealestate.com/images/banner.jpg"
alt="Jim Boring Real Estate Investments" width="740" height="168"></TD>
</TR>
</table>
After Banner
</body>
</html>
-----------------------------
You can go to the web and enter that site address in. Are you seeing
the banner? Is anyone out there NOT seeing the banner?
I even reduced the physical dimensions of the banner.jpg to 740x168.
I can't seem to think outside the box on this one. I'm still in need of a solution.
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Clarification of Answer by
webadept-ga
on
14 Apr 2005 16:39 PDT
Hi,
I've had eight people so far take a look, and thus far everyone is
seeing the banner. I think what we are dealing with here, might be a
laptop issue, rather than a webpage issue.
If you would be kind enough to do me a favore here, please go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
download the antispyware you find there. It is safe and despite my
general attitude, a very good antispyware program. It is espesially
good at fixing up IE. Install that, and let it run a full scan. After
you are done with that, reboot the laptop and take a look at it again.
thanks,
webadept-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
webadept-ga
on
14 Apr 2005 16:52 PDT
Also Jim, why do you have DIV tags in there?
Did you try the code as I suggested above, or are you mixing in a lot
of commentors opinions from below?
With that lap top which doesn't like the banner.jpg go to
http://www.webadept.net/test.html
and see what you can see there.
webadept-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
mesamike-ga
on
14 Apr 2005 21:45 PDT
Back again,
I have forwarded the links to your webpage to the people who are
having banner problems to see if the banner is now viewable. Even
though for simplicity, I have used the comparison of laptops in the
office, this is not isolated to them. Other desktop computers (at
least one from back east) are experiencing the same problem so it is
not isolated to laptops or geographical region.
I tried to isolate the problem to Internet explorer by having the
laptop with the banner problem download Firefox. AFter installing that
and running Firefox, The problem still existed on it. So it isn't just
an IE problem.
I still keep coming back to the wierd phenomena - The HTML source with
the missing banner is just missing that whole <img...> syntax. What
could cause that to be removed. The Server? Why would it descriminate?
The browser? It isn't just IE. I'm sure I'm going to kick myself when
the solution is found but it is sure not obvious right now and I'm
taking great comfort that powerhouse brains such as yours are having
some challenges also.
I will have one of the machines download the MS anti-spyware software,
run it and reboot and see what happens there.
As far as the DIV tags, they are generated by Dreamweaver, not me. I
don't mess with the code unless absolutely necessary.
So, I'll get back here tomorrow when I find out more. Just for
clarification, I am about 75 miles from where the machines are
located. I am having my client do all these machinations remotely.
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Clarification of Answer by
webadept-ga
on
14 Apr 2005 22:40 PDT
So they are having the same problem on my website as they are having
on your website... same thing, they can't see the image. Right?
webadept-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
mesamike-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 14:25 PDT
I have finally come to a resolution - but it defies logic. Yes, the
customers where able to go to your site and see the banner. Great. I
just took your code and integrated it into mine. Didn't work. Spent
hours diddling around with and without customer on the phone.
With all your input and my futzing around I discovered a solution. If
I change the name of the jpg from "banner.jpg" to something else, such
as "banner5.jpg" it works, even in the original code. I dupped the
banner5.jpg to the name banner.jpg, and then by just changing the
banner name by one character in the code, it worked but remove the
character and it doesn't. Very odd but I have spent way too much time
on this to do any more fooling around for now.
So for the time being, I have changed the pages to point to
banner5.jpg and it works fine for all computers. Ever so queer!
I appreciate your help in giving me some alternatives and you have way
earned your $40. Thanks for sticking it out with me.
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Clarification of Answer by
webadept-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 17:19 PDT
I thought of that, which is why I changed the name on the page I made
on my site. Glad to help with this. Some of the other things I did if
you look at the code I gave you is link to the image using full URL
address, and changed the table size to be larger than the image.
No doubt the client is using some type of advertisment blocker on
their computer, which isn't allowing images named "banner".. best to
call those headers or topimage, or something of that nature anyway.
LogoBar is always good.
Anyway, good luck and hope things go better for you than stuff like this.
webadept-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
mesamike-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 18:37 PDT
PostScript: I did go onto Google and typed in "missing banner.jpg"
(which I should have done first) and lo and behold, all kinds of stuff
popped up. Seems like Norton Systemworks 2003 when it has banner ad
suppression turned on, looks for items of a certain size that have all
kinds of names including forms of "banner" and suppress them. All
kinds of developers are affected.
Check out http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum20/2020.htm.
A wiser man I am I am.
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