Newbie trying to help a friend, keep getting an Â by the copyright sign?

augsep14 · Jan 11th, 2008, 18:08

I'm trying to help out a friend with a site that she paid someone else to do over 5 years ago. However, I'm only into the BASIC HTML coding, and only know basics of things -

but whats happening that I can't figure out is that the bottom of the page, it is showing an Â next to the copyright symbol, and I delete it in the html page, and save, but it shows up again when I visit the site... I delete it in the html file, and then hit the preview button, and it's gone, I then save it, and when I revisit the site, it's back AGAIN....

Does anyone know what the Â means, and why it keeps showing up after I delete it?????

this is copied and pasted from the html document: Am I missing something simple in this code that is causing it? Because I've manually deleted it more than once....

<div id="footer">
<p>Â©2005-2008 all rights reserved</p></div>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

See the A next to the copyright symbol? Well, I've deleted it, and it keeps coming back, and I can't figure out why?!?!?!?

HELP!!! PLEASE!!!!!

Also, does anyone have a good site they can suggest to create a new header - banner at the top of a page? My friend wants hers changed, and the person who created the old one scanned the .jpg image, so I can't change her title, so I dont know of any site that I could make a new one...... please let me know if anyone out there has any suggestions for me! I'd be ever so grateful......

Happy New Year Everyone! Thanks in advance for any help you can provide to me!

alexgeek · Jan 11th, 2008, 18:12

You have to use a html entity:

HTML: Select all

&copy; 2005 &ndash; 2008...

Which will appear as the copyright symbol followed by 2005 - 2008.

augsep14 · Jan 11th, 2008, 21:37

Thanks! See, I didnt put that code into the bottom of the page, that was something that was already there from the guy she paid money to do her sight years ago, so I didn't realize what was happening with it.... and why would I figure he'd screw something up.

Thank you so much for telling me what was up with it - I'm learning - OBVIOUSLY.

augsep14 · Jan 11th, 2008, 21:58

I just went and and did it......
I wrote verbatim what was suggested, and it looked good in the preview, and then I saved it, and it changed it.
HOW CAN IT KEEP CHANGING THE HTML all on it's own? I dont get it!

So I go back in, and then this is what the html coding looks like NOW......

<div id="footer">
<p>Â© 2005 â€“ 2008 all rights reserved</p></div>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

and now this is what the text looks like....... so now it's worse - I dont see what the problem is....
Â© 2005 â€“ 2008 all rights reserved

AND AGAIN, I DID NOT TYPE ALL THAT JIBERISH LISTED ABOUT - WHY DOES IT LOOK OKAY, THEN I SAVE IT, AND IT SAVES SOMETHING ELSE? WHAT AM I MISSING? HELP?

dab42pat · Jan 11th, 2008, 22:04

could you possibly post a link. this seems very strange.

augsep14 · Jan 12th, 2008, 01:22

I think it had something to do with the editing software of their server.....

I went into the source and viewed it, then went back in, but didn't even open up the html editor, I just went straight into the saved file......within the folders, and deleted it from there.... and it seems to have worked.

But I still dont understand how come it wasn't working when I would go to the html editor???

I'm still LOST about that!

I mean, for it to change things all on it's own - I figured it's just something stupid I'm doing wrong...... But the thing I don't understand is that it keeps changing what I put into the html code all on it's own..... that I DONT UNDERSTAND.

unitedcraig · Jan 12th, 2008, 08:50

It might be that, when was at college and was editing my site, i had to through the server HTML editor and it started adding symbols all over the show.

Do you have an FTP client you can use instead?