Website Help

preciousjeni · #1 02-07-2004, 08:57 PM

I'm proud to announce that our temporary site is up:

http://www.geocities.com/tnxxilon

BUT, what's the deal with Geocities anyway? I keep getting errors when I go look at the site but I know, for sure, that the html is correct. All the pages load, but Geocities acts up. Plus, when I just go to http://www.geocities.com, I sometimes get a script error as if that whole site is funky.

preciousjeni

ADPiAkron · #2 02-07-2004, 09:14 PM

Geocities is so touchy. I have a site on there too. www.geocities.com/adpibetatau and www.geocities.com/alphadeltapialumnae

You just have to check and double check your links on the index page for each word you want linked. I get errors all the time. It must just be since it is free! Who knows! But overtime my sites have worked out fine...just work through the kinks and be patient!

decadence · #3 02-07-2004, 09:39 PM

Yes, your own code is probably fine. Geocities is a free service that comes with ads; the HTML/javascript these ads are written in is *generally always* bugged and has errors. Hence you get errors reported when you view the pages even though your own page is fine. The code to display the advertisements is added automatically to the bottom of your pages by Yahoo (though sometimes it puts it at the top).

There is a line you can add which suppresses the error reporting; but it requires editing the webpage HTML to add in this line yourself, plus you need to re-upload each webpage every so often as sometimes the geocities ad code is inserted at the top of a page rather than the bottom (so it comes before the instruction to block errors). I note your pages are created in a MS Office package and using Yahoo Pagebuilder but let me know if you want the code to block errors if you fancy adding it in. The errors are just one of the things that come with the Geocities service.

Hope that clarifies if not helps.

preciousjeni · #4 02-07-2004, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by decadence
There is a line you can add which suppresses the error reporting; but it requires editing the webpage HTML to add in this line yourself...let me know if you want the code to block errors if you fancy adding it in.
Hope that clarifies if not helps.

For the love of all that is good and holy, YES!! Geocities is about to make me lose my mind. I appreciate the help and I just think you are my web savior with that little code of yours!!!!!!!

preciousjeni

decadence · #5 02-07-2004, 10:21 PM

Happy to, I didn't put it before as some people don't like the hassle of manually dealing with code

. Ok here it is to paste in:
<script language="JavaScript"> function blockError(){return true;} window.onerror = blockError; </script>

Put it in the <head> section, AFTER "<title>Your title</title>" and BEFORE "</head>". Obviously the little line needs to go on each individual webpage.
Every so often, you will notice the errors appear again this is because occasionally Yahoo puts the ad code at the top (i.e. above that line) rather than at the bottom (usual place) on your page. All you need to do then is re-upload the pages from your hard drive/network (with the above line in) and it's fixed again. The upload tool lets you upload multiple files at once so it doesn't take a moment.

eta: Put it after the <meta> tags if you don't have a <title> tag. Title is the optional tag which changes it to say the name of your site or whatever you want people to see; rather than the filename, at the top on the browser.

preciousjeni · #6 02-07-2004, 10:45 PM

It's working wONEderfully now!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!

preciousjeni