Re: Is it possible to create "linked" text boxes on multiple pages
- From: Mike Koewler <wordwiz@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:24:57 -0500
Scottie,
I will say one thing - you have great dreams. Good luck in your endeavors! There's some things you have not thought out, though.
David is the expert on how Pub behaves; he has solved a lot of problems by urging posters to not use Master Pages. In your case, it would not work exactly as you wish, as the place where it fits on a page (vis-a-vis the top of the page)is not the same. But let me re-iterate, you are talking about a couple of seconds per page. Make a copy of your text frame, remove the present one on Page 2 and paste your copy there. Ditto for Page 3.
You may want to look at a different program to do what you want.
A couple of problems with your site: the entire bottom part - the logo, text and picture are all one image. If someone wanted to copy your e-mail address or other part of the text and paste it in a different file - say a possible contact list, they cannot. Also, you've used a couple of fonts that are not web safe - Monotype Corsiva and Copperplate Gothic Bold & Light. Wingdings also in questionable. Web safe fonts are those that are going to be on almost everyone's computer. If a viewer doesn't have the font you have used (and it is displayed as text), then a different font will be substituted. This can really mess up how a site looks.
Mike
Scottie B wrote:
Thanks Mike... but I was just trying to utilize the Master Page functionalilty in Pub when you responded... and I have yet to get it to work (but just began). Maybe it would be useful if I provided an example of one of my intial web pages, see: http://www.250ValleyRun.com . I am a Realtor, and already have other Realtors asking me to do this for them. I would like to start a business producing these websites for other Realtors... and in the big picture, I can envision creating thousands of websites per year. I will pay someone else to edit the templates, and load the photos... but I want to make it as simple as possible... which takes me back to my intial thread. How can I change the address "250 Valley Run Place" on page 1, and have it automatically update pages 2 and 3. Will I be able to do this with the Master Page function? THanks in advance!.
"Mike Koewler" wrote:
Scottie,
This is where a Master Page (or multiple Master Pages) really come in handy. Unfortunately, Pub doesn't seem to like them.
The good news is that it will only take a moment or two to make the changes. Unless you are going to pay people to let you design their site, you won't have to worry about the extra seconds you will spend. The reality is that anyone who wants a boilerplate web site can do it themselves with software they have, inexpensive software they can buy or free software they can download, not to mention most web hosts offer some kind of basic templates customers can use.
Anyone considering paying to have a professional design will not be satisfied with a generic, "insert your name and picture here" approach.
Mike
Scottie B wrote:
I plan to offer a service where I will create hundreds of simple websites... all from a single template. This might be a 3 to 5 page website at the most. Each website would have unique data which would appear on multiple pages. For example... let's just say that at the top of each page, I have a text box which says "Bob's Web Page". What I would like to do is go to the text box on page 1, and change "Bob's Web Page" to "Sally's Web Page", and it would automatically update all the other pages. Similarly, I might have a photo which would appear on page 1, and also on page 2 and page 5. It would be great if I could change the photo once, and it would update all locations. Currently, I am having to go to each page and edit each text box one at a time... also go to each picture box, and swap the photos one at a time. I hope this makes sense? I am relatively computer literate, and a quick study... but totally new to web page design, and have found Publisher pretty easy to use.
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