Hi Everyone~
Im really green with web design (I'm a print designer, now getting my hands dirty with the web)... and i'm having a problem with the top navigation links on our site (http://www.thenewbusinessofparadigms.com/).

When you click on them, the site just hangs there... can anyone take a look at it and tell me what i've done wrong?

Thanks,
Ali

p.s.: Sorry, im such a noob that if this is posted in the wrong place, let me know. Thanks!

the links work fine for me. One issue you do have that i see is somehow i don't think your videos are inputed properly because everytime the page refreshes i get some sort of request from adobe that i have never seen before. these popups could be keeping your browser from going to the page if the links are not working for you. But the links work fine for me in IE and firefox

I tested out your navigation, and didn't see an immediate problem. What exactly do you mean by "the site just hangs there"?

I was testing in Firefox 3, BTW

Try taking away your leading '/'s. I think it is trying to look for the pages outside of your root folder

No, using a leading slash means it should start in the root folder

oops, yea I was thinking a bit messed up there. Sorry about that

I'm not seeing the issue either. A few of your pages didn't take a little longer than you might like to load, but I don't think you've done anything wrong.

I looked at your source code and it seems fine. It could always be improved, but I don't see anything that would cause major problems. It also looks like you've kept image sizes small so they shouldn't be causing any issue.

The one thing that could be causing a problem is your hosting. It's possible the server you're on isn't responding as quickly as it should or there are other sites on the server hogging bandwidth. If you have access to another server try uploading a copy of the site to it and see if you notice any difference in performance.

You can also create a couple of very simple pages behind the scenes on your site, just text and html, and then link them together to see how quickly they load.

I'm not seeing anything you're doing wrong in your code.

Thanks everyone... I really appreciate your input on this.

I just dont get it... it comes up just fine for me on my machine (im using firefox & i.e 7 for testing) but everyone else on our network (using ie) and some outside sources says it hangs when the top navigation links are clicked.

We host our sites internally... and on that technology im really daft.
My IT guy says it just cant be the server... so i dunno.

Im very close to just saying screw it and rebuilding it but i just dont have the time. **frustrated**

if anyone has an epiphany, ill check back throughout the day.

Thanks again.

I checked it in FF3 and IE6 and didn't have any freezing problems at all.
I will say this though - having this line at the top of your document will throw IE into Quirks Mode:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

You need to remove that.

It's also possible that the problem is the Flash Version checking that's going on when the page loads. I've also had some problems with DW's current way of embedding Flash so I just don't use it.

Just some thoughts.

Here is an idea: Have the problem computers disable JavaScript, to see if the problem still occurs. That way you can at least eliminate that as a possible reason. If the problem stops, you will know that there is something in the scripts causing it.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

I checked it in FF3 and IE6 and didn't have any freezing problems at all.
I will say this though - having this line at the top of your document will throw IE into Quirks Mode:

You need to remove that.

It's also possible that the problem is the Flash Version checking that's going on when the page loads. I've also had some problems with DW's current way of embedding Flash so I just don't use it.

Good catch

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

needs to go. May I also suggest running the code through the markup validator at
http://validator.w3.org

There are several serious errors in the html, mostly related to the browser detector and the flash.

To embed flash, here's the valid code for the "Classic Preview" on your start page.

<object width="324" height="275" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="1_NBOPclassic_preview.swf">
<param value="1_NBOPclassic_preview.swf" name="movie">
</object>

Try that. You can eliminate the a lot of the unnecessary scripts running on your page.