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Re: Notepad file extention question and help needed

Posted By: Mel. White
Saturday, 12 November 2005, at 12:58 p.m.

In Response To: Notepad file extention question and help needed (HappyLady365)

> What I get when I click the Preview button is Notepad
> with nothing but my code for my website? What is my
> problem? This is so
> frustrating.

I'm going to ask a very basic question here: When you saved the file from notepad, did you do a File, Save AS, and then type "whateveritsis.htm"?

If you did a 'save' and then typed "xxx.htm" it saved it as "xxx.htm.TXT" and won't ever read it as a web page.

> The support team asked "Have you changed the file extension for your
> page to something other than html or htm? I checked XsitePro file
> extention settings and they are set for html.

Actually, it doesn't count what XsitePro is... if they were telling you to do it in Notepad (which is really a time-waster for novices, IMHO) then it ended up as a TXT file.

I think you'd be a lot happier with a WYSIWYG web page editor. Leslie does these pages in notepad, and many people use it, but it's less frustrating (IMHO) to use an editor where you can work directly on the web pages and see them as they progress, rather than guessing your way through code and switching back and forth between the graphic view and the code.

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