Re: Why does my Publisher website work w/IE but not Firefox & Nets

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I have good news and bad news. Your home page will load in Firefox, but the
links do not work and the entire page is much larger, including the text
size, than in IE. Sorry, but Publisher 2003 code just simply does not play
well with Firefox.

There is also good and bad news with IE. All the links work just fine.
Spacing issues appear to be because you are overlapping text boxes with word
art and images on occasion. It also appeared that you inserted one image
into a text box...a no no. Perhaps run the Design Checker to see the
different instances of when you overlap elements, and under Tools (in Pub
2000) select the 'Snap To' options. This really helps when you are trying to
arrange elements on your page.

Generally, your site looks pretty good in IE. However, you are one of the
very special users that David Bartosik will want to talk with. Your site
crashes IE when I switch pages. It is intermittent, but on at least 4
occasions, it crashed IE and wanted to send an error message to Microsoft.
This bug has been reported in this forum only a few times, and David and the
MS team have been working to figure out what causes it. Now, don't you feel
special?

As to your rant, there is no perfect tool...no perfect software. As I
pointed out in the article I referenced in this thread, even FrontPage has
its issues and critics. I personally hate flash...or at least what
webmasters do with it much of the time. Also, building a website is a whole
different world than desktop publishing. I too thought that since I knew how
to use Publisher pretty well that it should be no problem building a
website...silly me. There was so much to learn, and so many design
work-arounds, and trial and terror, and I still consider myself almost
ignorant when it comes to website development and theory.

However, I enjoy learning and finding out what I can and cannot do with any
particular program, and don't expect perfection, or ease of use from any
computer or application. So you can rant and rave about MS and having to put
some time and energy into it, or do what I probably should have done, and
that's hire someone that knows what they are doing, and concentrate on
managing your business. Your site is simple enough that with a little
tweaking you should be able to produce it with Publisher, but you gotta
chill a bit (maybe check into your own spa ;-). Even if you switch programs,
you will find issues with whatever you switch too. Ok...enough of my 'rant'.
Run the design checker, read the articles I referenced, take a deep breath
and try again. You are almost there...

DavidF

"NanVan" <NanVan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B929F188-EB15-43B0-B0E5-BC466F57B02E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> DavidF,
>
> My website is "VanitiesSpa.com"
>
> I created the site using Publisher just the way I do for newsletters, etc.
I
> just "ungrouped" my frames to see if that was the prob. - it wasn't. I
still
> can't get Firefox (my preferred browser) to read any of my other pages.
The
> links to the "spa services", etc. seem "frozen".
>
> Keep in mind that I am extreemly new at this - learning as I go. I'm quite
> ready to try a different design program and skip MS altogether. Why can't
> such a huge company, with genius' at the helm make simple to use products
> that actually work properly??? It shouldn't be this hard. I spend WAAAYYY
too
> much time trying to fix MS problems rather than enjoying my efforts -
> nevermind running my own company! Who has time to grow their business when
> their week is tied up with fixing MS?!?!?!
>
> So, that's my RANT.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
>
>


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