I have a major problem - I am trying to amend a website which seems to have been written with dynamic HTML so that the pages are created from different style sheets, includes, etc.. But the guy who developed it left NO documentation, and I am not enough of an expert to see how it is being done.
Here is the problem. I tried to make a change to page, just by downloading the relevant page from the server, and then adjusting the HTML - in this case I just changed the text in a paragraph tag. But when I posted this back up to the server, the menu and other graphics had disappeared...even though I didn't change any other HTML! So I tried just downloading an HTML page which works fine...and then saving it as a different name - then posting it up (I don't want to mess up what is already there..). Even though I have changed NO CODE AT ALL, the page stops working (ie. no menu etc..) The only thing I have done differently is to re-name the page before re-posting it to the server. How can this make the dynamically generated elements stop working?! When I then look at the source code in the page which works, and the re-named page which no longer works, the one which doesn't work has two <include> tags, but the one which works has a load of code instead at this point.
Can anyone out there guess what is happening from these symptoms, and point me in the right direction to try to work out how I should be approaching the task of updating and amending the site?
I would REALLY appreciate any ideas anyone has about what is going on here....and any tips you have for where I should be looking. Thanks a lot.
Here is the problem. I tried to make a change to page, just by downloading the relevant page from the server, and then adjusting the HTML - in this case I just changed the text in a paragraph tag. But when I posted this back up to the server, the menu and other graphics had disappeared...even though I didn't change any other HTML! So I tried just downloading an HTML page which works fine...and then saving it as a different name - then posting it up (I don't want to mess up what is already there..). Even though I have changed NO CODE AT ALL, the page stops working (ie. no menu etc..) The only thing I have done differently is to re-name the page before re-posting it to the server. How can this make the dynamically generated elements stop working?! When I then look at the source code in the page which works, and the re-named page which no longer works, the one which doesn't work has two <include> tags, but the one which works has a load of code instead at this point.
Can anyone out there guess what is happening from these symptoms, and point me in the right direction to try to work out how I should be approaching the task of updating and amending the site?
I would REALLY appreciate any ideas anyone has about what is going on here....and any tips you have for where I should be looking. Thanks a lot.