After a few years of being ill, have recently tried to update my site. Was having trouble getting a few minor changes to take even though it showed that it was updating, so I republished the site and now it looks as if it’s from about 1995. No background, nice headers, etc.
I found a similar post from a few days ago, someone using RW5.3 and another user suggested clearing the publishing cache. My version does not have this option.
I know this happened to me years ago but it’s been so long I can’t remember what I did to fix it. Am very cautious to upgrade because then my stacks don’t work. Took me six weeks to backtrack and get versions that would play nice with each other so can’t afford to change!
If you have an ftp client, you could try it - from within the RW Theme. But…
… I hate to say this; it’ll not be what you want to hear:
if you’re intending to maintain the site, it’d really be best to find out what’s gone wrong, whether any of your RW files are corrupt. Themes’ contents - such as CSS - are integral to the site’s working and shouldn’t really be uploaded like that. Apart from anything else, there’s a good chance that all your good work will be overwritten the next time you come to publish.
I think my next step would be to Export the site locally and see what works there.
Then I really would suggest a clean install of RW - perhaps on another Volume, keeping all your existing files - and try and get a good, serviceable install. Even better would be to move up to RW6. A lot of work, I know; but probably less work in the long run.
Thanks Mike and Mark, good suggestions from you both, and much appreciated. Tomorrow is another day… Will report back if I’m able to figure anything out. Would be open to a different theme, just the thought of having to type in all that information again… Even with cut and paste, not a happy thought. Oh well, me and my first world problems…
With a change of Theme (after making sure you have everything backed up) you shouldn’t have to retype anything.
In the first place I’d suggest upgrading to RW 6. It’s a big leap if for no other reason than that resources are stored in a new location in your Library. But you’re going to have to do it sooner or later… RW 7 will be here within six months, probably.
That ought to give you a clean start. Try a new/different Theme to see whether that makes the CSS whose absence seems as though it may be behind your current display probs behave properly. Good luck and let us know how you get on!