Hi all,
My website menu has suddenly stopped working. I had smooth scroll running but now after checking all the anchors etc, deleting and redoing everything I can’t get it to do anything.
I appreciate any help you guys can provide
www.millsandmills.co.uk
http://79.170.44.152/millsandmills.co.uk/index.html
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You have prototype and jquery loading on the same page. They are not compatible javascript libraries. You had this same page working before?
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The only thing i’ve changed is adding flexible image and background from action forge… Could they be one of the above?
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I did not realize till just now that Showcase is using jquery, so that’s not the issue. I see the background image action you applied, but I don’t see the other one. Try unapplying the action and see if it starts working again.
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Something about your anchors is off. Showing an error of 3 unmatched tags. How do you have your links applied?
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Thanks for looking at it for me!
I tend to draw a graphic image and apply an anchor to that… As I said I have had it working doing it that way, so not sure what i’ve done differently this time 
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Right, I have gone through the anchors removed the graphics and applied the anchors to the galleries and words, which has got it moving at least (although smooth scroll still isn’t working).
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I’ve got it working… Apparently you can’t have a graphic item drawn as a background as despite putting it to the back it wouldn’t stay there!
Thanks for your help anyway!
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This is a common misconception. A background is a CSS property of an
element or the page, not a stand-alone image. In Freeway, you apply
background images to elements or the page using the Inspector. Such an
image applied to the page has apparently limitless “send-to-back-ness”
– it floats independent and behind all other elements on the page –
because it’s not really “in” the page at all.
Walter
On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:36 AM, John wrote:
I’ve got it working… Apparently you can’t have a graphic item
drawn as a background as despite putting it to the back it wouldn’t
stay there!Thanks for your help anyway!
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I tend to draw a graphic image and apply an anchor to that…
Ok, but you can only apply a single anchor to any one graphic image.
A true browser window background is not normally part of a page, assuming that is your intent.
As an aside, your page is basically all graphics. This won’t give Google anything to rank your page with so your SEO will basically suck. If you can tweak your design so that your text areas are just that you will have a chance of ranking better. Getting an overall look is easy with a single graphic, but not very web friendly.
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Ok, I meant I made a BG image by drawing a graphic image and put graphic boxes over that, rather than uploading it to the page’s proper BG location…
I have since, sliced the page up into the individual parts and uploaded them separately like I had done previously… There is a small text area on the main page, but we’re hoping the SEO will be boosted by writing articles on the blog page (not yet created).
Out of curiosity, does it make any difference that the source code is immediately visible (its frame forwarded).
Thanks again for your help!
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Frames will absolutely kill you SEO-wise and usability-wise. You
cannot bookmark a particular page within a frameset, so all pages of
your site collapse to the one page that’s set as the default page for
the frame. This is a crushing blow to your WebRank.
Walter
On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:18 PM, John wrote:
Out of curiosity, does it make any difference that the source code
is immediately visible (its frame forwarded).
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Out of curiosity, does it make any difference that the source code is immediately visible (its frame forwarded).
Not sure I understand the question. Frame forwarding might be considered URL spoofing in some circumstances, but if you mean seeing the IP in the url…yeah that’s a bit unusual and not necessarily desirable.
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Will this make a huge impact on our site as its a single page anyway? We plan to make a blog page to accompany it so I guess if people bookmark us it’ll just be our first page…
I will have a look into the domain name options as there must be a better way of doing things.
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Will this make a huge impact on our site as its a single page anyway?
I would say yes. How is anyone going to find your site from a generic text search if there is nothing on it to use as a reference? If your intent is to only offer your site address to select individuals then it doesn’t matter. But if you want anonymous to find you then it does.
And having a legitimate domain is really necessary to present a professional face to the internet.
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If a “bot” looks at your site, the ONLY thing they will read is the
source code of the masking frameset. Since you didn’t author that, I
have serious doubts that it will contain any content or metadata
specific to your site.
Even if you were to fill your actual site/page with HTML content
specific to your domain, you would still not have that content indexed
because the bots don’t usually follow the frame source links to the
internal pages.
Walter
On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:50 PM, chuckamuck wrote:
Will this make a huge impact on our site as its a single page anyway?
I would say yes. How is anyone going to find your site from a
generic text search if there is nothing on it to use as a reference?
If your intent is to only offer your site address to select
individuals then it doesn’t matter. But if you want anonymous to
find you then it does.And having a legitimate domain is really necessary to present a
professional face to the internet.
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All good stuff gents and thank you very much for your help… We have designed PSD’s in the past that people have developed for us but are not developers ourselves. We we’re hoping that via Freeway (we’re still on the trial) we would be able to cut this part of the process out but we don’t know anything about all of this stuff…
Would it be overly complictated to get the site SEO friendly? If its not would you mind advising as to what steps are required.
Many thanks
John
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First, and simplest, get a real domain and a real hosting location for
it.
Second, look carefully at your page in source code view. Try to pick
out any readable words from within that jumble that are not surrounded
by angle brackets. So if you saw <p>Some text here</p> the only part
I’m considering readable is “Some text here”.
In a very simplistic sense, whatever you see that falls squarely
inside the “readable” column is how Google and other “bots” see your
site.
Google does not read pictures of text, only real HTML text. (There are
some additional tags that it does read, and I’m leaving out a whole
shed-load of other tips and hints here.) However, until you have
something meaningful and interesting to say – in text – absolutely
nobody will pay you any attention online. Think of that as the
required foundation upon which you can layer additional goodies the
improve – not create – your ranking.
Walter
On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:08 PM, John wrote:
All good stuff gents and thank you very much for your help… We
have designed PSD’s in the past that people have developed for us
but are not developers ourselves. We we’re hoping that via Freeway
(we’re still on the trial) we would be able to cut this part of the
process out but we don’t know anything about all of this stuff…Would it be overly complictated to get the site SEO friendly? If
its not would you mind advising as to what steps are required.Many thanks
John
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On 5 Apr 2011, 7:18 pm, waltd wrote:
First, and simplest, get a real domain and a real hosting location for
it.
Bit confused… What do you mean my real? The domain name is registered to 123 reg and the hosting is from the Freeway suggested Ineedwebhosting - Are these incorrect?
I knew that about text images and have used html text rather than an image… I also understand about writing with your keywords in mind for web copy but we’re not really at that stage yet…
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In addition to what Walt said, I would encourage you to continue doing your overall designs in PSD. Perfectly acceptable to work out all the graphic bits that way. The trick comes when it’s time to translate that into Freeway pages. You have to come to the realization that text is only useful on the web when it is html. So although on a really really simplistic level you can drag a PSD file right into Freeway, layers and all and it will accept it, you still need to have legitimate html text areas on your page to benefit from SEO.
So, graphic headers or footers or backgrounds are all good things for Photoshop (not that Freeway cannot do this also). Everything else can/should be done with Freeway if that becomes your tool of choice.
Freeway does a LOT of the work for you which makes it an excellent initiation into web design. But there is always more to learn and Freeway does not automagically get the latest techniques added to its inner workings.
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