Has anyone had any issues with their Freeway Pro created websites occasionally forgetting where its external CSS file is?
In the past week, I’ve had a website I’m working on exhibit this kind of behavior and I have no idea why. To be honest, I’m not sure that it actually forgot where the CSS file was, I just know that it wasn’t using it.
I’ve just gone through this with my External Stylesheets Action, it seemed to lose the reference to the stylesheet on about half of the pages. It refused to be rescued by the master page or the global Edit Resources dialog, either, I had to go through each page and manually re-link it.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2012, at 3:16 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
Has anyone had any issues with their Freeway Pro created websites occasionally forgetting where its external CSS file is?
In the past week, I’ve had a website I’m working on exhibit this kind of behavior and I have no idea why. To be honest, I’m not sure that it actually forgot where the CSS file was, I just know that it wasn’t using it.
I’m using the External stylesheets option from within the Output section of the Document Setup dialog box. Are you using an action because the Freeway built-in option is problematic?
No, I’m attaching additional stylesheets to the page, that’s what the Action is for. Originally it was written before Freeway could create external stylesheets, and so it includes the ability to remove the Freeway-generated style tag from the page and replace it with a stylesheet cut from one of the pages in your site. There’s no real need to use that aspect of the Action any more.
If you’re having troubles with the stylesheet not attaching to each of your pages, try holding the Control key down, which reveals the hidden Publish Everything option in the File menu. This publishes everything in the entire site from scratch.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2012, at 4:04 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
I didn’t even now there was an action for that.
I’m using the External stylesheets option from within the Output section of the Document Setup dialog box. Are you using an action because the Freeway built-in option is problematic?
Yeah, I think that was my problem. I was working late last night making a lot of changes and I may have forgotten to do that. I think my client may have seen the non-CSS styled version. Talk about embarrassing. LOL
On 3 Jul 2012, 8:20 pm, waltd wrote:
If you’re having troubles with the stylesheet not attaching to each of your pages, try holding the Control key down, which reveals the hidden Publish Everything option in the File menu. This publishes everything in the entire site from scratch.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2012, at 4:04 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
I didn’t even now there was an action for that.
I’m using the External stylesheets option from within the Output section of the Document Setup dialog box. Are you using an action because the Freeway built-in option is problematic?
The real thing to lookout for as far as external stylesheets go is The
Cascade Order.
As you know, browsers look for CSS styling instructions in three places: 1)
External Stylesheets, 2) the Page Head section, and each 3) inline HTML
item. The order within each location, coupled with the location order, can
create inflexibility and style conflicts that are hard to resolve.
–
Ernie Simpson
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
Yeah, I think that was my problem. I was working late last night making a
lot of changes and I may have forgotten to do that. I think my client may
have seen the non-CSS styled version. Talk about embarrassing. LOL
On 3 Jul 2012, 8:20 pm, waltd wrote:
If you’re having troubles with the stylesheet not attaching to each of
your pages, try holding the Control key down, which reveals the hidden
Publish Everything option in the File menu. This publishes everything in
the entire site from scratch.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2012, at 4:04 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
I didn’t even now there was an action for that.
I’m using the External stylesheets option from within the Output
section of the Document Setup dialog box. Are you using an action because
the Freeway built-in option is problematic?