When i load up my website on work computer it....

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 08:42:57

.......wants to try and install Microsoft Office premium.

Any ideas why it would want to do this?

Is there something on my website that i need to remove like a script?

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 08:42:57

Rhubarb Thrasher · May 15, 2007, 09:23:58

the same thing happens to me when I visit some web-sites. perhaps if you keep cancelling the install boxes that appear, when your web-site is up you can see what is missing or displayed incorrectly, and remove it or change it. or you could load up your Office disk like it's asking you to

Admin aka Dan · May 15, 2007, 10:02:50

Does it happen on a particular page, or every page?

Riffster · May 15, 2007, 11:16:51

This may be because a website is wanting a language pack, and it knows that it was available on the original install ( the preminum install ). I'll think more about this for you.

A quick solution would be to make the disc available to the installs. ( but you probs do not have it ! )

regrads

Riff.

glow777 · May 15, 2007, 11:32:11

Did you create the website using frontpage or any MS apps.

Chances are that it used propriety software within the authoring software to create the web site and it must be present on the client machine. You have it on your home machine but not on your work machine therefore it wants you to download it.

If this isnt the case then ignore the above bo*&%*!s

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 12:43:34

Thanks for the replys, it happens on my main page www.backyard.8m.net but never happens on my home computer.

It is really annoying and I wouldnt want it stopping people visiting.

I use Dreamweaver to create the site. Very basic, and you could be right it needs a language pack.

timiano · May 15, 2007, 12:48:34

Hi

Are you sure it was done in Dreamweaver? Looking at your page source, the first 3 lines show:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"

Plus all the styles are Microsoft created using the prefix mso-, plus the page checks for Office and holds metadata within the pages in XML for microsoft office, such as:




I don't know how well the above will copy and paste due to tags, but you should get the picture.

Tim

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 14:00:59

yeh is was Dreamweaver, thats really weird.....so what do i do?

glow777 · May 15, 2007, 14:42:35

are you sure its not an original ms page that youve edited in DW.

if its only your homepage it may be easy to re-write it from scratch as its only a few images and links itll only take 5 minutes

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 15:40:23

Quote from: glow777 on May 15, 2007, 14:42:35
are you sure its not an original ms page that youve edited in DW.

if its only your homepage it may be easy to re-write it from scratch as its only a few images and links itll only take 5 minutes

Never used MS for editing web sites, but maybe years ago i did, cant really remember. But yeh sounds a good idea i'll need to take a look.

What would i remove so it doesnt ask to install the program? or can i even do that?

glow777 · May 15, 2007, 16:16:11

If I redid your homepage in notepad the below is all thats required (including your copied meta tags)

shows how much bloat is added by the editors. Im a bit html rusty so although this works it meay not be the prettiest! And this can still be cut down.

Glow

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<title>---- Backyard.8m.net ---- by Chris Graham ----</title>
<META name="author" content="Chris Graham">
<META name="description" content="Backyard Photography from Stirling Scotland. Providing digital images and services.">
<META name="keywords" content="Astronomy, UK, Astrophotography, Backyard, Backyard Potography, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scot, Thistle, Photography, Imaging, Moon, Planets, Deep Space, Space, DSO, Amateur, Stirling, Scotland, Skywatcher">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<STYLE>
BODY { background-color: black; color: white; }
P { font: 12pt Arial }
</STYLE>
</head>
<body><div><center>

<p>Astroimaging from Stirling, Scotland</p>
<p><img src="http://backyard.8m.net/website/logo1.jpg" border="0"></p>

<p>Garden veggie plot</p>
<p><img src="http://backyard.8m.net/veggie%20logo.jpg" border="0"</p>
</center></div></body></html>

Chris Graham · May 15, 2007, 21:20:58

Thats really good of you to do that, thanks.

I have tried a few things and removed some stuff that could be causing the problem. Need to try it tomorrow at work.

Chris Graham · May 16, 2007, 08:35:22

Seems to work now.

I removed this

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

from the first page, thanks everyone

glow777 · May 16, 2007, 09:06:16

good job you didnt use the code above - looking at it the cut and paste into the forum missed out a couple of lines.

BTW I noticed you have spaces in some of your image names, this can lead to problems. Its a good practice to use an underscore insteaD

Cheers_Glow

Chris Graham · May 16, 2007, 12:07:59

Yeh thats a very good point, i did notice when i tried an off line version and the image didnt show up only %20 so from now on i will use a "_"

thanks again

Larkshall · May 17, 2007, 07:42:47

I can't see any problem with it, but then I'm not using anything MS, just a straight forward GNU/Linux machine.

Chris Graham · May 17, 2007, 12:04:26

Quote from: Larkshall on May 17, 2007, 07:42:47
I can't see any problem with it, but then I'm not using anything MS, just a straight forward GNU/Linux machine.

Thanks for taking a look anyway.

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