Several issues with CS3

[Jean Y]

I have several issues with CS3. When I used Contribute 2 I had no problems with
the following.

1. I've imported from Word & copy & pasted but when I align photos left, text
on right and then publish, the pages goes kookie and all out of alignment
2. Not able to resize/change color of text on master page but am able to only
when I make a new page
3. I get spaces between lines when I don't want them and can't get spaces or
move text over when I want to
4. I noticed that on my edit pages, sometimes the content changes font size
but it's okay when published

Can anyone help ? Thanks

[Art Shotwell]

On 6/14/07 7:13 PM, in article f4ssjh$4mg$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> I have several issues with CS3. When I used Contribute 2 I had no problems
> with the following.
>
> 1. I've imported from Word & copy & pasted but when I align photos left, text
> on right and then publish, the pages goes kookie and all out of alignment

What's the URL? Let's see the page.

> 2. Not able to resize/change color of text on master page but am able to only
> when I make a new page

What do you mean you can't? Nothing happens or you get an error? You might
check Role Settings.

> 3. I get spaces between lines when I don't want them and can't get spaces or
> move text over when I want to

There's a setting in Contribute: Administer Site, Edit Role Settings,
Editing; Paragraph spacing, choose One Line or Two lines.

> 4. I noticed that on my edit pages, sometimes the content changes font size
> but it's okay when published

Not sure what's happening there.

[Jean Y]

1. sorry, this page is password protect, etc. but what I had to mess with it so
it would just lay out with text under each photo and add extra spaces to keep
it from going out of place. I'll do a test page and send you the url so you can
see what it does.

2. On my home page [url]www.digitalassociation.org[/url] you will note that color text
has been used. This was done in Contrb 2, but now CS3 won't give me the option
of color text, it's greyed out.

3. I found the setting in Contribute, adm. site, etc. I was missing one step
in the procedure. Does this change, line spacing, only need to be done once to
control all of the pages ?

thanks for your help.

[Jean Y]

1. photo & text alignment - If you will view
[url]www.digitalassociation.org/worddoctest[/url] this is what happens when I importanted
a word document,
on page [url]www.digitalassociation.org/wordtest2[/url] I had to realign the text by hand

2. I can't change my font size or color on new or edited pages, it just
doesn't show in the tool bar as an option. In the admin website, user roles,
change color text is checked but it doesn't work. I have one page that allows
me that choice but not on my other pages. I see nothing in the admin area that
allows for change of font size.

Thanks.

[Art Shotwell]

On 6/16/07 1:43 PM, in article f51i15$sc6$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> 1. sorry, this page is password protect, etc. but what I had to mess with it
> so
> it would just lay out with text under each photo and add extra spaces to keep
> it from going out of place. I'll do a test page and send you the url so you
> can
> see what it does.
>
> 2. On my home page [url]www.digitalassociation.org[/url] you will note that color text
> has been used. This was done in Contrb 2, but now CS3 won't give me the option
> of color text, it's greyed out.

I can't explain why it's greyed out. It's all in the role settings on the
styles and fonts page.

>
> 3. I found the setting in Contribute, adm. site, etc. I was missing one step
> in the procedure. Does this change, line spacing, only need to be done once to
> control all of the pages ?

This setting doesn't control what's on the pages. It controls what happens
when you hit enter.

[Art Shotwell]

On 6/16/07 2:18 PM, in article f51k2d$1dr$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> 1. photo & text alignment - If you will view
> [url]www.digitalassociation.org/worddoctest[/url] this is what happens when I importanted
> a word document,
> on page [url]www.digitalassociation.org/wordtest2[/url] I had to realign the text by
> hand

The first page (btw, it is actually wordtest.html) is what I'd expect to see
when importing a Word doc. The second page, after you inserted blank lines,
will only work if the user browser's font settings match yours. Probably the
best way to achieve a stack of images with text attached to each would be to
create a table, with two columns. Use left cells for photos and right cells
for text. Copy and paste text in one paragraph at a time.

> 2. I can't change my font size or color on new or edited pages, it just
> doesn't show in the tool bar as an option. In the admin website, user roles,
> change color text is checked but it doesn't work. I have one page that allows
> me that choice but not on my other pages. I see nothing in the admin area that
> allows for change of font size.

As I said in a previous post, I can't explain this. Just make sure
everything is checked on the Styles and Fonts page in role settings for your
role. You do have styles attached to these pages... You might want to use
the styles rather than tagging the text line by line.

[Art Shotwell]

Jean, You probably should look at your pages in Firefox or Safari. They look
much different than they do in IE7.

[Jean Y]

Art,

I have tried your other suggestions regarding the styles and fonts in the roll
settings but to no avail. Is it possible my program is defective ?

By any chance can you explain to me why our pages look different in the other
search engines? We had no idea. Thanks for letting me know.

[Art Shotwell]

I doubt your software is defective. It's gotta be settings somewhere. You
wanna create a role for me and send me a key? I'll take a look? To email me,
remove the inappropriate parts of my email address.


On 6/18/07 10:24 AM, in article f56f4e$p74$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> Art,
>
> I have tried your other suggestions regarding the styles and fonts in the
> roll
> settings but to no avail. Is it possible my program is defective ?
>
> By any chance can you explain to me why our pages look different in the other
> search engines? We had no idea. Thanks for letting me know.
>

[Art Shotwell]

I got your key. Here's what I found. When I EDIT the front page, you're
right: the ability to color text is not there. However, when I create a NEW
blank page, it IS there. So, it's not in the role settings. But...check the
role settings for tester (the key you sent me). What's the setting in
Editing/General editing restrictions. Is Allow unrestricted editing radio
button ticked? If not, then you need to tick it. And, just for good
measure, double-check the role settings/Styles & Fonts, make sure there's a
checkbox by Alow users to apply font color and background color, though I
assume it IS checked, since I could apply font color when I created a new
page.

As a backup measure, you could create a new style with the color you want to
use. Then that style would be available to all users.

Art


On 6/18/07 10:39 PM, in article
C29CBA28.15A2D%art@nospam.artshotwell.com.invalid, "Art Shotwell"
<art@nospam.artshotwell.com.invalid> wrote:

> I doubt your software is defective. It's gotta be settings somewhere. You
> wanna create a role for me and send me a key? I'll take a look? To email me,
> remove the inappropriate parts of my email address.
>
>
> On 6/18/07 10:24 AM, in article f56f4e$p74$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
> <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:
>

>> Art,
>>
>> I have tried your other suggestions regarding the styles and fonts in the
>> roll
>> settings but to no avail. Is it possible my program is defective ?
>>
>> By any chance can you explain to me why our pages look different in the
>> other
>> search engines? We had no idea. Thanks for letting me know.
>>

>

[Jean Y]

Art,

I tried what you suggested but it still didn't work. I now have my web master
back on the scene. He updated the style sheet and changed the text on one page
but the problem still remains with all of the others. From what you said, I
thought that this was a control issue.

I had absolutely no problem before upgrading from 2 to CS3. The webmaster made
some changes to my home page format the other day and in doing so a lot of
pictures were replaced by others (I've since corrected that). In addition text
on a number of pages changed color, white to black. So, now I sit and wait and
see how he works it out.

Thanks for you help.

Jean
[url]http://www.digitalassociation.org[/url]

[Art Shotwell]

The black text on the dark blue background doesn't really work. That's there
because someone has marked that text to override the style sheet and turn it
black. As to your other problems...I couldn't further a guess without having
full access. Your webmaster should be able to solve it. The front page has
already improved.


On 6/27/07 12:07 PM, in article f5uchk$2mk$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> Art,
>
> I tried what you suggested but it still didn't work. I now have my web master
> back on the scene. He updated the style sheet and changed the text on one page
> but the problem still remains with all of the others. From what you said, I
> thought that this was a control issue.
>
> I had absolutely no problem before upgrading from 2 to CS3. The webmaster
> made
> some changes to my home page format the other day and in doing so a lot of
> pictures were replaced by others (I've since corrected that). In addition text
> on a number of pages changed color, white to black. So, now I sit and wait and
> see how he works it out.
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Jean
> [url]http://www.digitalassociation.org[/url]
>

[Jean Y]

My web guy did the following <<I updated the style sheet and changed the text
on the Conference page. The style sheet serves as a template for the text on
the page. In order for that to work, you need to make sure that when you're
editing text in Contribute, you do not select any other paragraph style (Style
1, Style 2, body,etc.) for your text. If you do, the text will be black.>>

You mentioned <<someone has marked that text to override the style sheet and
turn it black >> I know nothing about changing a style sheet and don't know
what he means by 'editing text in Contribute'.

As my web guy was only supposed to change the color and width on our front
page and make 2 pages public from the members only area, these changes seem to
have occurred on their own. There were also photos that disappeared and others
appeared in their place. I had to manually replace those images. I usually cut
and paste documents/images onto the web pages, althought I discovered the
'insert word document' and did that on a few pages. At times I want text in a
color and that's always worked. These issues I'm having I've never had before I
changed to CS3, not upgrade but full version, and the web guy then made the
requested changes and then the problems showed up. My web guy is not always
quick to deal with changes or issues and does this as a side line, as I guess a
lot of guys do, which is frustrating at times. So the site didn't show the
visual problems, I cut and pasted the correct color text into place.

I've reviewed the pages that allow font size and color changes with the admin
choices, with the pages that don't allow these changes and see no difference in
the admin choices.

Any other idea of what the problem may be ? Thanks for any and all input.

[Art Shotwell]

On 7/1/07 11:52 AM, in article f68t5d$qgo$1@forums.macromedia.com, "Jean Y"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> My web guy did the following <<I updated the style sheet and changed the text
> on the Conference page. The style sheet serves as a template for the text on
> the page. In order for that to work, you need to make sure that when you're
> editing text in Contribute, you do not select any other paragraph style (Style
> 1, Style 2, body,etc.) for your text. If you do, the text will be black.>>

That's right. If you type text and select one of the available styles, fine.
But, as soon as you try to change color, font size, or any other attribute,
Contribute will create a new style all on it's own.

> You mentioned <<someone has marked that text to override the style sheet and
> turn it black >> I know nothing about changing a style sheet and don't know
> what he means by 'editing text in Contribute'.

I looked at your style sheet. You only have white and black as font colors.
The red color is a result of a Contribute-created style (style 4) in one
instance and a font tag in another instance.

> As my web guy was only supposed to change the color and width on our front
> page and make 2 pages public from the members only area, these changes seem to
> have occurred on their own. There were also photos that disappeared and others
> appeared in their place. I had to manually replace those images. I usually cut
> and paste documents/images onto the web pages, althought I discovered the
> 'insert word document' and did that on a few pages. At times I want text in a
> color and that's always worked. These issues I'm having I've never had before
> I
> changed to CS3, not upgrade but full version, and the web guy then made the
> requested changes and then the problems showed up. My web guy is not always
> quick to deal with changes or issues and does this as a side line, as I guess
> a
> lot of guys do, which is frustrating at times. So the site didn't show the
> visual problems, I cut and pasted the correct color text into place.
>
> I've reviewed the pages that allow font size and color changes with the admin
> choices, with the pages that don't allow these changes and see no difference
> in
> the admin choices.
>
> Any other idea of what the problem may be ? Thanks for any and all input.
>

The code doesn't really look all that good. For instance, on the Conference
page, it looks like, for the photo cutline, you simply hit the space bar to
move the text over to try to center the cutline below the photo. You -could-
just create a centered style or tell Contribute to center that paragraph and
it should create a centered style for you.

When I paste from a Word doc, I try to paste as unfomatted text.