I have a visitor who uses MSN explorer and MSN hotmail. If I send him a hyperlink to visit my site, and he clicks on it from his MSN hotmail, it's totally garbled. However, if he types in my domain name rather than use the hyperlink, he can view the site just fine. I've been all over the net and cannot find such a reported problem. If someone has the above environment, would you send a hyperlink of my website to yourself, then try to click on my site from your mail? I suspect an MSN incompatibility with my CSS files because it looks like my masthead keeps repeating down the page. If it works for you, I might consider dropping the matter, assuming my visitor has something corrupted. But if it fails for you too, then I'd like to alert the MSN people. Ive been writing style sheets for a while, and thought I had it down pat. My site works in Netscape, IE, and the Mac browser, the name of which has slipped my mind at the moment.
Regards, Linda Moran (aka "authorgonetek")
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.lindamoran.netI">www.lindamoran.netI</a><!-- w --> have MSN as a service provider. i can email the link to myself from work and check it out for you. Not sure if it helps, but I do use Outlook for email (and pull in my MSN mail which uses the hotmail web based front to get in).
I will try both ways and let you know.I don't have MSN but I have experienced a similar problem with hosting companies that only offer a meta redirect to your page. Try putting this code at the top of your page and then ask your client to retest it.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if(top != self) top.location = self.location;
-->
</script>when I pulled it with out look it was fine. i was unable to test it off MSN (ie hotmail) as my wife needed the PC at that exact moment (they are so demanding just beacue she wanted to surf the web....)I tested the link from the MSN/hotmail and it worked fine as well. Not sure what is going on for him.To DaveSW and ASKALON-
This helps. I can't get much assistance from my visitor that had the problems, so now at least I know that other MSN users might not be running into the problem. Meanwhile, I've added the code as per DaveSW's suggestion. Thank you both for your efforts.It's fixed. I put in the above suggested code into every page of my site, and now an MSN hotmail user can click on my hyperlink from their hotmail and can view my site. It appears that MSN likes to use frames, and that could have been causing the problem. Anyway, thanks all.
Linda Moran
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.betterwaypress.com">www.betterwaypress.com</a><!-- w --> (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.betterwaypress.com">http://www.betterwaypress.com</a><!-- m -->)Glad it worked for you!
Regards, Linda Moran (aka "authorgonetek")
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.lindamoran.netI">www.lindamoran.netI</a><!-- w --> have MSN as a service provider. i can email the link to myself from work and check it out for you. Not sure if it helps, but I do use Outlook for email (and pull in my MSN mail which uses the hotmail web based front to get in).
I will try both ways and let you know.I don't have MSN but I have experienced a similar problem with hosting companies that only offer a meta redirect to your page. Try putting this code at the top of your page and then ask your client to retest it.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if(top != self) top.location = self.location;
-->
</script>when I pulled it with out look it was fine. i was unable to test it off MSN (ie hotmail) as my wife needed the PC at that exact moment (they are so demanding just beacue she wanted to surf the web....)I tested the link from the MSN/hotmail and it worked fine as well. Not sure what is going on for him.To DaveSW and ASKALON-
This helps. I can't get much assistance from my visitor that had the problems, so now at least I know that other MSN users might not be running into the problem. Meanwhile, I've added the code as per DaveSW's suggestion. Thank you both for your efforts.It's fixed. I put in the above suggested code into every page of my site, and now an MSN hotmail user can click on my hyperlink from their hotmail and can view my site. It appears that MSN likes to use frames, and that could have been causing the problem. Anyway, thanks all.
Linda Moran
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.betterwaypress.com">www.betterwaypress.com</a><!-- w --> (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.betterwaypress.com">http://www.betterwaypress.com</a><!-- m -->)Glad it worked for you!