I have put together several attempts to get animation. Each, including the "snow" animation from the news letter, have worked in preview mode but not when I publish.

I have grouped and not grouped, cleaned and not cleaned, it makes no difference. The .gif sits still on the screen.

Any suggestions?

Can you post a link to your published page?

If you have errors elsewhere on the page, that might cause the animation to fail.

http://www.murielmcmahon.com/index.html

Here is the web address. You can see the snow flakes in each corner.

I have a feeling that when you published you didn't "Gather" all files. There are a number of references in the code to your local C: drive, which would explain your missing images and animation.

The setting is in the Publisher > Pages tab.

I said grouped in my first query but I meant gather. Anyway I did so and still no difference.

I checked the code in SSP against the website and it appears to be the same but I my have missed something.

I have six sub directories. Is that enough?

I have used SS for several years and have not had any problems as challenging as this.

That's a big improvement -- all the required files are now present and correct.

A minor point -- you have an unintended line break at the end of your Description Meta Tag (Page Editor > Title, Meta Tags). This is not the cause of your present problem, but no point in tempting fate ...

The cause of the lack of animation now is the code placed at the end of your page by your server:

<!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE -->
<!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript"
src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/smb/js/hosting/cp/js_source/whv2_001.js">
</script>
<script language="javascript">geovisit();
</script>
<noscript><img src="http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1231972709" alt="setstats"
border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>

I haven't investigated why it causes the stoppage -- all I know is that removing it allows the page to animate, both in IE7 and Firefox. Can you disable the insertion of this code?

I wondered about that code at the end!

Thanks for the heads up on the Meta Tag. That was an easy fix.

I have emailed the server to ask about methods of removing that code.

I'll let you know the outcome.

Thanks for the help!!

Butch

The server has yet to reply but I was able to solve the problem.

With this server, Yahoo!,
1. I went into Web Hosting Control Panel
2.Clicked on Detailed statistics, in site traffic
3. clicked options
4. on "Collect Statistical Data For My Site" I clicked on "Do not collect statistical data for my site (turn off site statistics)"
This totally removed the code from the site.


Thanks for the help!

Hope this helps others.