Still a newbie 
All my links work fine in safari on my mac. But on son’s pc in both Chrome and IE, some links go to wrong places.
What can cause this and how to correct?
thanks
dave
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Can you provide a URL to the site please?
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sorry - www.daveremnant.co.uk
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At first blush I’d say it would have to do with how you make your links -
they’re image maps, instead of straight-forward links. Any browser that is
fussy about image map coordinates will not marry up the “link area” to the
“image area” very well. Likely this will send the user off in an unexpected
direction.
At this point, I will leave it to someone else to suggest a way to make
your menu links without using image maps. Myself, I would give the general
advice of using layered html boxes instead of tables for page element
placement, and as much real text instead of graphic text whenever possible.
Nothing to do with links really, just general advice.
Ernie Simpson
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sorry - www.daveremnant.co.uk
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I havent used tables, have I?
can you explain further for a real newbie who’s feeling really thick right now?
Any further advice from other appreciated too
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ern - I’ve re-read manual. Is it that I placed the texts inside graphic boxes instead of html boxes? I think I might have done a mix of both.
If so, if I re-do all as html ones, that should fix it?
Is there a way to convert, instead of completely re-constructing them?
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Ern - assuming my last post was correct understanding, is there a way of telling if a box was created as an html one or as a graphic one, to save me re-doing all?
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OK - I can see now how in the Inspector I can see if a box is html, gif, etc. So I’ll go thru checking everything and making it all html throughout.
Do I seem on the right track now Ern?
sorry i’ve been a newbie pain
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If you have the View / Outlines option enabled in the main menu, then graphic boxes will have a gray border and HTML boxes will have either a green (layer) or blue (table) border when you are looking at the design view. (They are gone in the preview mode or a browser.)
Walter
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Ern - assuming my last post was correct understanding, is there a way of telling if a box was created as an html one or as a graphic one, to save me re-doing all?
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Dave, you seem to be on the right track. It’s okay to be a newbie, everyone
is at some point.
Hopefully, some of the other newbies will jump-in to help guide your maiden
Freeway Pro voyage. Alternately, you might do some searches of the topics
here for menu ideas. Some people have blogs about Freeway, which may
include an examples of menus, perhaps you will find links here in the forum.
Ernie Simpson
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OK - I can see now how in the Inspector I can see if a box is html, gif,
etc. So I’ll go thru checking everything and making it all html throughout.Do I seem on the right track now Ern?
sorry i’ve been a newbie pain
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I see you are using 5.4.2 Pro - you should at least update to 5.4.3 as their are some bug fixes in it.
I would suggest that you use the CSS Menu action to create your menu which will give you an easily styled menu which is SEO friendly with consistent links.
I havent used tables, have I?
You have - probably without realising. FW creates a Table structure to your page if the CSS button is not on ie the legend under it reads: ‘Table Layout’ as opposed to ‘CSS Layout’
If CSS is on then html boxes will have a green border and blue if not.
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thanks v much dave. I’ll check out the upgrade, if free, will do.
I can now see my image map/html box cock up v clearly - DOH!
I’ll be honest, dont understand the CSS side. Been lazy + not read up, just ploughed straight in. All worked well on my own mac, problems have only arisen when viewed on sons PC. But I know I must sort. Time for caffeine and check out CSS in manual. Is there a resource anywhere re why use CSS and differences etc (hope that makes sense?) i.e. tutorial for divs like me to explain in detail?
You guys are all SO helpful. THANKS!
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ok - seems like some items were done with CSS on, some not, as I have a wide range of blue + green boxes. Going thru now changing all. A pain but a v useful learning process so no probs. 
Optimistic will sort now.
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