Vista seems to have messed up my web building site

Hi, OMG I need major help here! I just bought new computer, transferred all
BlueVoda web building forums and images here, and bingo! When I look at my
pages, all fonts are wrong, all graphics say "image not found" , all colors
are gone, and all shapes I made have been misplaced (e.g. a box centered in
page is suddenly appearing an inch over to the right.)

BlueVoda said this was an issue with my new computer. Toshiba said its a
Microsoft issue. Microsoft said it's a Vista issue and Toshiba should help
me but Toshiba says no. (Microsoft said they offer support for $89 but geez,
when they come out with a new product, whether I bought it or Toshiba did, if
the product isn't working right shouldn't they help people GRATIS?)

If anyone wants to chat with me - I'm sure this will take awhile- please let
me know. I was pushing really hard to get my site up and running by TODAY.
Now, as it stands, it would take me another month or two.

Oh- in addition, I can tell you this: a guy I know from the Blue Voda forum
told me this: my photos don't present because the original computer path was
changed and I musht "clone" the destination path for my images (I don't know
what that means).

For pages I published I should simply republish and Vodahost (BV) server
knows what image is asked for and automatically selects the proper image.
....I TRIED that, it doesn't work.

For pages I did not yet publish, he says ther is no "refernece path" to
recreate, so I need to one-by-one manually replace all items on my building
page from wherever I stored them in the computer. That is not working
either. e.g. I made a color bar to separate menu items (similar to the bars
you see here between community, discussions, etc...but when I preview it the
bar has moved down on top of the wording!)

He thought the font I was using might not be loaded in Vista, but Microsoft
says it is. (Verdana). My fonts change everywhere- in email, and in my web
pages. NOT in Word. Other programs though, as well. And when I type in
something on many programs, the font is so tiny I can barely read it!

He said the color change (removed) should not happen at all. Says it sounds
like a resolution or display setting issue on my new unit.

MAYBE, HOPEFULLY, this info will help one of you wizards (sorry, I'm just
really a computer idiot) to help me out. Please please!..at your earliest
convenience. I would be FOREVER GRATEFUL!! And just an fyi, no I can't go
back and use my old computer. It's bit the dust forever.

Last question: are some people on here alot of the time, like they would be
in my website builder, just helping out and about? That would be nice.

Again, thanks for reading. I know it's long but wanted to explain ALL that I
could.

> (similar to the bars
> you see here between community, discussions, etc...but when I preview it
> the
> bar has moved down on top of the wording!)

FYI: People access this newsgroup in a variety of ways. A lot of us -- most
of us, maybe -- don't see the bars you're talking about. I don't.


> MAYBE, HOPEFULLY, this info will help one of you wizards (sorry, I'm just
> really a computer idiot) to help me out.

I'm not trying to be insulting, but maybe you need to learn a whole lot more
about computers, computer filing systems, HTML etc. I think a lot of what
you described in your post has to do with your web pages looking for images
in the place where they were in your old computer, instead of where they are
in the new one. So, the person who gave you similar advice is correct, I
believe.

As I said, I'm not trying to insult you, but I think trying to walk you
through this will take lots and lots of time and probably result in
frustration for you as well as the person who is trying to help. You might
have already gotten a taste of this in the conversations you've already had
with the Voda folks.

You might also look for newsgroups on website building, HTML etc. My
estimate would be that Vista's share of "responsibility" for your issues is
about 10 percent, if that much. If I'm right, then this is the wrong
newsgroup.

You also might look to rebuilding your pages from scratch. That way, the
images will be placed in the right directories when you do that. You don't
have to recreate custom items like that color bar you mentioned. You just
need to make sure they're in the right place.

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:07:34 -0500, "DP" <> wrote:

>
>
>> (similar to the bars
>> you see here between community, discussions, etc...but when I preview it
>> the
>> bar has moved down on top of the wording!)
>
>FYI: People access this newsgroup in a variety of ways. A lot of us -- most
>of us, maybe -- don't see the bars you're talking about. I don't.
>
>
>> MAYBE, HOPEFULLY, this info will help one of you wizards (sorry, I'm just
>> really a computer idiot) to help me out.

You're wasting your time. This guy is a green as grass newbie that
doesn't know zip about HTML authoring and is using BlueVoda, one of
many drag and drop automatic web building applications that creates
some quick cookie cutter type web site. I found his original post in a
forum to learn that much. His problem is two fold. BlueVoda isn't
supported in Vista, and even if it was all they "free" services tie
everything into to one computer on a per host account basis. The only
way to replace what you had if you get a new computer is start over
otherwise all the linkage will be wrong as he discovered.

Yeah, I'm a "green as grass" newbie. SO sorry. I thought this was A "HELP"
AREA...must really be confused. You and the guy before really know how to
insult a woman, dont you. Thanks so much for all your HELP.

"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:07:34 -0500, "DP" <> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> (similar to the bars
> >> you see here between community, discussions, etc...but when I preview it
> >> the
> >> bar has moved down on top of the wording!)
> >
> >FYI: People access this newsgroup in a variety of ways. A lot of us -- most
> >of us, maybe -- don't see the bars you're talking about. I don't.
> >
> >
> >> MAYBE, HOPEFULLY, this info will help one of you wizards (sorry, I'm just
> >> really a computer idiot) to help me out.
>
> You're wasting your time. This guy is a green as grass newbie that
> doesn't know zip about HTML authoring and is using BlueVoda, one of
> many drag and drop automatic web building applications that creates
> some quick cookie cutter type web site. I found his original post in a
> forum to learn that much. His problem is two fold. BlueVoda isn't
> supported in Vista, and even if it was all they "free" services tie
> everything into to one computer on a per host account basis. The only
> way to replace what you had if you get a new computer is start over
> otherwise all the linkage will be wrong as he discovered.
>
>

I guess I'm the "guy before."
My advice to you was, roughly:
1) Learn more about how Windows files things and how HTML references things
WHERE THEY ARE FILED. If you don't know this then building a website will
always be something you will only have a minimal grasp of.
2) Look for a newsgroup more directly devoted to web pages, HTML etc. What
you have done is kind of the equivalent of someone coming to this newsgroup
and asking detailed questions about Quicken. The best "help" we could give
that person would be for that person to go to a Quicken news group.

In my first post, I apologized in advance, saying I wasn't trying to insult
your intelligence. Somehow you took that as an insult anyway. Sorry, I don't
know of any other way to say what I was trying to say.




"Leeza" <> wrote in message
news:163F1DB2-826A-4B1F-B6B7-...
> Yeah, I'm a "green as grass" newbie. SO sorry. I thought this was A
> "HELP"
> AREA...must really be confused. You and the guy before really know how to
> insult a woman, dont you. Thanks so much for all your HELP.
>
> "Adam Albright" wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:07:34 -0500, "DP" <> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> (similar to the bars
>> >> you see here between community, discussions, etc...but when I preview
>> >> it
>> >> the
>> >> bar has moved down on top of the wording!)
>> >
>> >FYI: People access this newsgroup in a variety of ways. A lot of us --
>> >most
>> >of us, maybe -- don't see the bars you're talking about. I don't.
>> >
>> >
>> >> MAYBE, HOPEFULLY, this info will help one of you wizards (sorry, I'm
>> >> just
>> >> really a computer idiot) to help me out.
>>
>> You're wasting your time. This guy is a green as grass newbie that
>> doesn't know zip about HTML authoring and is using BlueVoda, one of
>> many drag and drop automatic web building applications that creates
>> some quick cookie cutter type web site. I found his original post in a
>> forum to learn that much. His problem is two fold. BlueVoda isn't
>> supported in Vista, and even if it was all they "free" services tie
>> everything into to one computer on a per host account basis. The only
>> way to replace what you had if you get a new computer is start over
>> otherwise all the linkage will be wrong as he discovered.
>>
>>