HELP DESPERATE! Lost my navbar in Safari, ok in Firefox! Need site up ASAP!

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HELP DESPERATE! Lost my navbar in Safari, ok in Firefox! Need site up ASAP!

Hi all,
I built my site in iWeb 08; it's published through mobileme, and the domain is at Go Daddy. I'm on OS 10.5.7. I'm clueless here-I think I messed up my site and I'm so desperate to fix it!

Everything was fine until I got the bright idea to add Google Analytics to my site. I pasted the code on each page with the HTML Widget tool, but it didn't seem to show up in tracking, so I gave up deleted it again. I thought that would be end of story...

However, when I republished my site, I lost my navbar in Safari and Chrome, and I do still see it in Firefox but now there's also a big rule across the top of the page. Everything looks totally normal in iWeb. How can I get my navbar back???? Also, I lost dropshadow formatting on the Safari and Chrome pages. (I tried emptying cache in all three browsers.)

My site is www.hiresarahjones.com.

I'm pretty frantic about getting this back to normal because I need this site for a job meeting tomorrow. Any help would be SO appreciated; thanks so much!!!!!!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 10:31 PM

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sjracer

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Jun 22, 2010 10:41 PM in response to jonesse

The exact thing happened to me tonight. My iWeb site on Mobile Me has been working perfectly since I set it up a couple of months ago. Tonight I noticed that one of the pages wasn't appearing properly in IE, so I made some formatting changes to the main body of the page. Now my navigation bar is no longer showing up in Safari, but it IS still showing up in Firefox and IE. I've tried everything, but cannot get it to appear in Safari. What gives?

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Jun 22, 2010 10:46 PM in response to jonesse

I forgot to mention I get a black dot on the left instead of the navbar. I tried to republish but it didn't work...

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maria303

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Jun 22, 2010 10:47 PM in response to jonesse

Hi Sarah
I just tried your site and the nav bar was there...I hope that means you got it fixed
I used Safari

good luck on the job search

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jonesse Author

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Jun 22, 2010 10:52 PM in response to maria303

Wow, that's good news-but strange, I still can't see it, even after I empty the cache in Safari...could this just be a problem with me somehow? I'm so clueless. It's amazing I even got this site up in the first place..

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cehayes

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Jun 22, 2010 11:15 PM in response to jonesse

this is happening to me too...no nav bar whatsoever! irritating. if anyone gets this fixed let me know....my site is:

http://web.me.com/catherinehayes/main/home.html

should have nav bar at top...not happening. hmmm

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maria303

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Jun 22, 2010 11:21 PM in response to jonesse

just to confirm are these the links in your nav bar:
Welcome About Me Work Samples Journal Links?

I am pretty clueless myself so I don't know what is/ or could be going on....but it seems okay on this end

I get frustrated to sometimes....maybe someone here has an idea...people are very generous with their expertise and help

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maria303

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Jun 22, 2010 11:26 PM in response to cehayes

are these your links
home photography retouch client list bio/contact blog

using safari and that is what I see?

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jonesse Author

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Jun 22, 2010 11:28 PM in response to maria303

That's funny, I see her links in Firefox but not Safari. Same as me. (beautiful site, btw!)

I tried emptying cache, confirming javascript is on, checking that the navbar was displayed in inspector, restarting, publishing again. Nothing works. I did have a navbar until today. Did you?

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maria303

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Jun 22, 2010 11:41 PM in response to jonesse

Hi
I just checked both sites in safari and firefox (great sites both of you) and they came up...each with a nav bar

I am not a diagnostician at all and don't know what is happening

Have you tried publishing to a folder on your desk top and then going into to the individual html documents and seeing if they are correct when you access them that way? That might at least help isolate where the problem is occurring...I am only suggesting that because that would be the next thing I would do if this were happening to me

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jonesse Author

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Jun 23, 2010 12:00 AM in response to maria303

Thanks for the tip, Maria. It seems the files that I saved to a folder are also missing a navbar. But I can't figure out why it would show up in Firefox, then...

SIGH. I think I'll just have to paste some hard links into the page for my meeting. Total bummer-it looked a lot more professional the other way...thanks for your help!

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maria303

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Jun 23, 2010 6:25 AM in response to jonesse

good luck with your meeting
I never use the iweb links...i think it is one of the "tells" that it is an iweb site....because they all look exactly the same...so you might try going to the page layout screen (from inspector) and unchecking the second option "display navigation menu" save/post the site (which should remove them completely) and then go back in and recheck the box "display navigation menu" save and post and see if they are okay then...if they are not okay then I would remove and add your own links

again ...this is just what I would try...

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Jun 23, 2010 7:01 AM in response to jonesse

Same thing is happening to me for a few weeks now...

http://www.sheeeshcartoons.com/Site/Blog/Blog.html

I have no ideas how to fix it. I tried changing all the fonts but that didn't help. Not sure if upgrading to iLife 9 would only make matters worse...

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maria303

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Jun 23, 2010 9:32 AM in response to jonesse

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html

Roddy always has good practical solutions to iweb issues....here is a link to his tutorial
you might see if there is something here that can help you

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Jun 23, 2010 8:26 PM in response to maria303

This seems to be an Apple problem. The navigation bars work in other browsers. I tried Firefox, I read that someone else tried Explorer, and the navigation menus work as they should.

Everyone should report this to Apple so they can fix the problem.

While viewing the page that doesn't work, select <report bugs to Apple> under the Safari menu (left hand side of the uppermost menu on the computer screen) and then describe the problem and submit it.

David

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maria303

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Jun 23, 2010 9:39 PM in response to David L Phelps

good suggestion ...I searched the discussions and the common thread seemed to be that the sites were hosted at mobile me

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