Editing Problems

[lukes customs]

Hi, I have a very simple and basic site that I built on Blue Hosts server. There are about 27 pages total. Over the past year I have maintained, edited, and added to the site through the "File Manager" and the "public_HTML" file.

A few weeks ago while updating a few pages, i developed a problem. It looks like this:

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The funky A's do not belong there. The more I try to get rid of the worse it gets. It will also put boxes between the A's.

I've contacted tech support several times and they blame their software. What I don't understand is my site was built 100% in the file manager with this problem only starting after almost a year of use.

[Go Fast, Turn Left]

I will be interested in this as well...I encountered the same problem. The more I opened it to fix it, the more there were. I finally just deleted the pages and and rebuilt them or reloaded them from my backups.

[YoWoVi]

Hi, I have a very simple and basic site that I built on Blue Hosts server. There are about 27 pages total. Over the past year I have maintained, edited, and added to the site through the "File Manager" and the "public_HTML" file.

A few weeks ago while updating a few pages, i developed a problem. It looks like this:

Home   Products   Contact   View Cart   Checkout

The funky A's do not belong there. The more I try to get rid of the worse it gets. It will also put boxes between the A's.

I've contacted tech support several times and they blame their software. What I don't understand is my site was built 100% in the file manager with this problem only starting after almost a year of use.

Same thing for me! :mad: Over a year using the Control Panel and all was fine... now all of a sudden I get the same garbage on my pages. I can't edit anything! :mad: Tech Support says there's a known problem with the software. Well, there wasn't before the denial of service attacks and the power problems.

Come on Matt, fix it!

[dances.in.garden]

Same here! The more I tried to take them out, the more it added! lol

I ran every spyware, adware and virus checker I could find, thinking it was coming from my end. Then a friend told me it was coming from the host. Emailed Bluehost and they said the html editor had a bug and recommended NVU at nvu.com. Good editor for those of us that do not know html! Thank you for that recommendation Bluehost! But, please get that lil bugger out of there. :) I prefer to use the website to edit.

Will we be notified when it's fixed?

[lukes customs]

My problem is I don't have time to learn a new program, building websites is not my business...:(

[dances.in.garden]

My problem is I don't have time to learn a new program, building websites is not my business...:(

I sure can relate to that! But if you try this below, it is a quick fix for your website. The NVU editor is a lot like the html editor on Bluehost.

Open the web page that is corrput with all the Â's everywhere(not through Bluehost, just open it in a browser window like you are surfing the net.)
Go to "Edit" that is on top of your browser(IE, Firefox, etc). Click on "Select All".
After it highlights everything, go back to "Edit" and click on "Copy".

Open the NVU editor. It should open with the tab "Normal".
Go to "Edit" at the top of the NVU window and click on "Paste". That will transfer everything from your webpage into that window. Edit out all the  and make whatever changes you need to make and click on "Save". (Be sure to save the file as the same html name)

Log in to Bluehost and upload the file. Be sure to put a check in "overwrite existing file".

Hope that helps until they can get the bug out of their system.

[lukes customs]

Thanks for the info, I may give it a try when I have some time..

[YoWoVi]

I sure can relate to that! But if you try this below, it is a quick fix for your website. The NVU editor is a lot like the html editor on Bluehost.

Open the web page that is corrput with all the Â's everywhere(not through Bluehost, just open it in a browser window like you are surfing the net.)
Go to "Edit" that is on top of your browser(IE, Firefox, etc). Click on "Select All".
After it highlights everything, go back to "Edit" and click on "Copy".

Open the NVU editor. It should open with the tab "Normal".
Go to "Edit" at the top of the NVU window and click on "Paste". That will transfer everything from your webpage into that window. Edit out all the  and make whatever changes you need to make and click on "Save". (Be sure to save the file as the same html name)

Log in to Bluehost and upload the file. Be sure to put a check in "overwrite existing file".

Hope that helps until they can get the bug out of their system.

I did that... and it didn't work! Still got the weird characters! :mad:

[lukes customs]

I guess this is not going to be addressed by bluehost. (?) I just edited one of my pages and it is not fixed.

This is a huge problem for me. I do not have time to learn a diffrent program in order to get around this. I built my entire site through bluehosts file manager, now I'm screwed!

[Basil]

Are you using a wysiwyg editor or something?

File manager doesn't change any of your code..

[lukes customs]

It's the public_html in file manager

[Basil]

Oh.. THAT.

Have you tried learning html? It's easier than it looks.

[lukes customs]

No, my biggest problem is I'm not a web designer, I'm a machinist (and that is only part time because I have a full time job). The stuff I sell is for a small niche market. I don't really have time to mess with the website, but I have regular changes to my product line that need to be updated. I haven't been able to do that for several months because of this, it makes a huge mess...

[SayUNKLE]

Tha A's have to do with your character set probably. I had the same problem when using internet explorer when editing via the html editor. When using Mozilla Firefox the problem no longer exsisted. I later changed my character set of my webpage and all is good in either browser.

[robd101]

BlueHost's HTML editor does that to your code when you use it to modify a page. It happened to me earlier with pages I had built using Dreamweaver and which were previously working perfectly fine.

Your best bet for now, unless there's a solution, is to restore your website from a back up (hopefully you have one) and use a different editing program.