Hi Samantha and Everyone Else!
Thanks again for allowing me to join your forum.
I am in Lake Alfred, just north of Winter Haven, east of Lakeland and west of Haines city. Halfway between Orlando and Tampa.
I call my work Music for Sight. I have a domain name, musicforsight.org, which is provided to me free from the International Lions club. They also give me some free storage space. If I could I would use something like DreamWeaver or FrontPage or it’s successor, I can’t remember it’s name but the acronym is EW, oh yes, Expression Web, and publish my web site entirely on my own. That’s difficult at best with just a screen reader. If I was only speaking to a blind audience, I wouldn’t have to worry about visual appeal, but more of my followers are sighted than blind so I want a visually appealing site. Which is why I chose to use Trellix from Verizon in the first place. Anyway, my
http://www.musicforsight.org address simply forwards visitors to
http://mysite.verizon.net/reszmkrl/musicforsightHere’s more detail on how and what corrupted the index.html.
If you go to
http://mysite.verizon.net/reszmkrl/musicforsightYou will see near the top a heading for “Today’s tune. A little text about the song, a download and listen link and then a picture of the album cover with a link to buy it from amazon. Btw, I’ve been doing the amazon.com associate affiliate program for several years to raise money for my passion, guide dogs in general and Southeastern Guide Dog School in Palmetto in particular.
And that is where the problem occurred.
I copied the code from amazon associates and then went to add it to my web page.
I do this by logging into my Verizon account, going to edit my website which opens the Trellix page and then selecting my web site. I imagine y’all already know all that, but I don’t want to leave out anything.
So the Trellix Site builder opens. The All My Sites page contains my published website. I hit the link to edit it.
A couple site builder frames and the the Music for Sight editing frame.
I’ve been doing this for a while now, so I just went to the text box that holds the code I get from amazon.
I hit the edit text link and the page opened to edit the text.
I hit the view/hide html link so the html code was displayed.
I selected the code between <div> and </div> and pasted the newly acquired code from amazon.
I hit the view hide html link again, and the link to go to amazon with my associate id built in was there. I hesitate to keep mentioning I’m blind, but it helps explain what might seem like stupid moves.
I wasn’t sure the actual album cover image was displaying. The way my screen reader was reading it, it kind of sounded like the html code, not the picture, was being displayed. Sort of like maybe I had not put the code in between the div tags.
So I hit the view hide html link again and thought I head too many div tags like say
<div></div><div></div>
So, thinking I had too many div tags, thereby causing the code rather than the image to be displayed, I set focus to the div tags and was trying to delete the extra’s when my computer and screen reader got in a big tussle over resources. Suddenly, I was out of the page for editing text and back to the point where the page currently being edited is displayed.
I went down to the text box where the album cover is supposed to be. It was there. The buy from amazon link was there, and the privacy link was there. But then, instead of the edit text link which should immediately follow the text box I was in the bottom site builder frame.
The edit text link, which should have been right below the album was not there. Nothing but the bottom of the editing frame and the top of the site builder frame.
In desperation, I hit the delete link with hopes of just deleting the text box. The delete link worked fine, but the check box which should have immediately followed the text box was not there.
I keep local copies of all the pages I create. So, I thought, I’ll close site builder, open the ftp client, delete index.html and then upload a copy from locally.
The first thing I observed was that the index.html file still had the date and time stamp from the last time I successfully edited.
So I deleted it. I had a copy of it locally.
Then I went back to site builder, found of course, the home page still missing the bottom half and going directly to the bottom site builder frame with no edit text link following the edit box that contained the album cover.
I went ahead and published. Sure enough, the corrupted, maybe truncated would be a better word, home page was published.
I closed site builder and went back to my ftp client. The new index.html was there, half the size it should have been, about 39k instead of 78k.
Thinking I was on the right track, I deleted the index.html then uploaded the copy from my local machine. I opened my website,
http://mysite.verizon.net/reszmkrl/musicforsight and everything was there. My son came in about that time and I asked him if the picture of album was there or just code. He said the album cover was there.
Still thinking I was on the right track, I went back to trellix to continue editing, but alas, much to my chagrin, the truncated page was back in the editing window.
I viewed the page’s source code and found that where the </div> tag should have been, was only </d
As for what my ftp view shows me, it is all the pages in my web site in the
ftp://mysite.verizon.net/musicforsight folder
The images are displayed in the sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures folder
It would seem site builcder keeps the unpublished files in a location I do not have access to. Or do not know how to find.
So, as of right now, the web site is still there. I just can’t edit my home page anymore. If nothing else, you would think the Trellix Site builder would allow users to delete and create a new index.html. If it does, I sure can’t figure it out.
Thanks for your time and consideration. And of course, I still believe my prayer for help will be answered. Somehow!
Dj