[WEB4LIB] stupid html question

[Gillian Wiseman]

Thanks for the prompt replies, everybody. I'm going to go home tonight and
check my file extensions, the html code, and a few other things to see which
answer suits my problem!

Gillian Wiseman
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: <gwiseman at ci.waco.tx.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] stupid html question


> Back in my reference librarian days, I always assured patrons that there
> were no stupid questions...but there were occasional stupid answers.
>
> It would be a big help to have the URL for your page, but this doesn't
> sound like an HTML problem at all.  It sounds to me like your web server
> is identifying the file as plain text, not HTML at all.  I can't quite be
> sure about this answer, because Internet Explorer has a history of
> ignoring what the server says in this context, but its still my best
> guess.
>
> If that's the problem, it needs to be addressed either in the server
> configuration or in how the server sees the home page (usually through its
> file extension).
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gillian Wiseman" <gwiseman at ci.waco.tx.us>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:11 PM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] stupid html question
>
>
> > I'm just learning to do HTML, and this question may be quite simple, but
> > this is my problem:
> > I've created a website (for a personal hobby at home) on my mac. When I
> view
> > the page at home it looks fine (either on my computer or my husband's
> mac)
> > with both Netscape and Explorer. When I view it with Netscape Navigator
> or
> > Explorer from my PC at work, the pages are full of HTML code.
> >
> > What could be the problem? I used Adobe Pagemill to create the pages,
> and
> > some of them were created from text files originally created in
> Clarisworks.
> >
> >
> > Gillian Wiseman
> > Electronic Resources Librarian
> > Waco-McLennan County Library
> > (254) 750-5944
> >
> >