This is broken on so many different levels.
- You’re using graphic text. (Google cannot index it, blind people cannot have it read aloud to them. This is fundamentally wrong.)
- The links are link maps (because you linked to a line of graphic text within a larger box). Link maps do not work like regular hyperlinks do.
- The anchors are all empty A tags in the top-left corner of the one massive graphic containing all of the text. Your anchors are working the way they are supposed to, just not the way you want.
Since you are in Freeway, and graphic text is editable and as easy to work with as other forms of text, do yourself a favor right now. First, double-click into the one massive graphic text box and select all. Copy. On the pasteboard or somewhere else on the page, draw an HTML box, double-click into it for a text cursor, and choose Paste and Match Style from the Edit menu. This will strip all formatting from the text, which is critically important.
Looking at this page, it appears as though you have used graphic text so that your headers can be centered and bold and not double-spaced away from the paragraph they attend to. This is all do-able in Freeway in normal HTML text.
Create a new style in the Edit Style dialog. Set the Align to center, Space After to 0, and click the Bold button. Name this style something memorable. Now create another style for your regular paragraphs. Make sure that you apply some paragraph style attributes to it, so it becomes a ¶ style. Space After is innocuous enough.
Double-click into your HTML box and select all. Apply your regular paragraph style. Now triple-click each header and apply your header style to each one. This should get rid of the apparent double-space after each header, and center them and snug them together with their child paragraphs.
Looking at the rest of the text, you can create the three-column effect for the locations by inserting an inline table in the run of text after the paragraph about hours and locations. Bulleted lists can also be center-aligned, also not a problem in HTML text. Select those lines of text (remove the bullets you manually applied first) and then click open the List segment of the Inspector. Click the right arrow in the Inspector, and you’ll have a list. Click the center-align button and you’ll have a center-aligned list.
Now at the top of the page, just highlight all of that text, apply your centered header style.
You can set a red color and no underline for links, and get the rest of the style. Click elsewhere, so your HTML text is no longer selected. Then click once on the HTML box and look in the Style tab of the Inspector. In the Links segment, set the color to red and un-click the underline button (this is fairly difficult to see on the button itself, so it’s best to try it on some actual link text so you can get good feedback).
Now go back to my original message and follow those steps. It is critical that you select some or all of the text in the header above each answer when you define the anchor. The links are simple and self-explanatory.
Once you do this in HTML, and see how sharp and perfect the text is and how well it works, you won’t want to ever go back. And my friend Beverly will think much better of you.*
Walter
*Beverly has end-stage wet macular degeneration. She’s lights out in one eye, and light perception in the other. She loves the Web, and listens to it all the time.
On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Reesche wrote:
Ok Walt… here is the URL for the Page from hell.
http://www.cardioinstitute.com/faq's.html
The Questions are in RED at the top and the answers flow down below them. There are (5) Q&A’s.
I can not figure out WHY this is not working! It makes sense creating a Graphic box for the Answers/Acors and Linking them to the Questions/Links.
Rich
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