Re: New problem with Firefox

Thanks, David. When I said two or three days ago, I was referring to the
installation of new computers and monitors at my office, plus install of
FireFox 2.0. The new displays were set at 96dpi instead of 120, as had been
the case with the previous monitors. My coordinator informed me that in
FireFox the forms pages were jumbled and some text was out of place on one
other page. The reason this puzzled me was that this site was designed at a
120dpi setting and has been running for two years. It has worked perfectly
on both IE6 and FireFox 2.0. The forms pages are used regularly by our
clients to book mediations and do evaluations. We have received zero
complaints from anyone. This leads me to believe that most of our clients
have their displays set at 120dpi, as I always do -- it's just easier to
read. I have since redone the pages at 96dpi and am just having to live with
the weird look the padding produces when viewed in 96dpi. But now the added
problem is that while the 120dpi version worked perfectly on both IE and
FireFox, now when I try to view the site at 120dpi on FireFox it is an
absolute mess, while it works fine in IE. This is a serious design problem
with Publisher -- sizing. I can increase the page size to fill the screen
from left to right at 96dpi, but when it is viewed at 120 of course it
requires scrolling. I don't think there is an answer to this -- it's simply
a Publisher problem. I could re-design my pages to have them float against a
background and more or less "center" them by moving everything to the right
-- David Bartosik sort of suggested this in a piece he wrote a while back.
If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

"DavidF" wrote:

Darn. I wish that your problems were because of another issue, as I don't
have a good solution for you if it is solely because of the 96 dpi vs. 120
dpi screen setting.

If you don't mind I would like to step back and ask for some clarification.
Earlier in this thread you said that this was a "recent -- two or three days
ago -- problem". Would you explain what you meant? Did you publish new html
pages? Was it tied in with installing the new monitors? What exactly
happened when this problem occurred...or did it just become apparent that
you had a problem then?

And to help me more, if you could also address these questions:

It sounds like things are further complicated by whether you are using IE6
or IE7 as per John's post. Which version are you running?

You are running Pub 2003 correct? Did you run the compress graphics tool
before you publish your pages? Reference: Compress graphics file sizes to
create smaller Publisher Web pages (2003):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx

And finally, and probably least important, have you run the Design Checker
under Tools?

I am asking these questions with the hope that something else is causing or
at least contributing to the problem other than the 96/120 issue. I will
elaborate on that issue later...thanks.

DavidF


"CWWJ" <CWWJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all the input. I think the problem is that most of our clients
(and friends who are FF users as well) have their displays set at 120 for
easy reading, so they have not noticed any problem. The site was created
more than two years ago with the display set at 120dpi and we have
literally
had zero complaints and the forms are in use by clients regularly. In
fact,
some of you visited the site back then with both IE and FireFox and noted
no
problems. Over the weekend, I reset my display to 96dpi and found the
same
problems you have noted here. I have redone some pages that look okay now
in
96dpi but requre horizontal scrolling to view in 120dpi. I notice other
web
sites look the same in both resolutions. How do I fix this size problem,
since so many people are viewing our site with 120dpi displays? And
thanks
again for your always helpful suggestions.

"DavidF" wrote:

I remember your site now that I see it. Still looks good in IE, but yeah,
that forms page I looked at was unusable in FF. In fact all the pages
look
pretty bad in FF, with all the graphics oversized.

I suspect that Rob is correct in that it is not the *size* of the
monitors,
but it may be related to the settings of the monitor you use to produce
your
site with. Publisher HTML output is at a default of 96 dpi, and you can
end
up with jumbled pages if you publish with a monitor set at 120 dpi.

Right click your desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced. If your DPI
setting is 120 dpi, then change that to 96 dpi, and OK out. Open your
Publisher web publication, Publish to the Web and produce new web files.
Direct those files to a folder on your computer where you can easily find
them. Then open and test the .htm files on the computers where the pages
are
all jumbled in FF. Do the pages look OK in both FF and IE?

DavidF


"CWWJ" <CWWJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David F.: A couple of years ago you were of invaluable assistance to
me
in
getting my company's web site up and running using Publisher 2003. I
had
issues with Firefox which you and others helped me solve; I downloaded
Firefox at that time, and after a bit of tweaking, my site worked
perfectly
on Firefox, and it still does. However, at my office we have recently
installed new computers with 20" LCD monitors and also Firefox. Now
the
web
site has numerous minor glitches and a couple of major ones that I
attribute
to a sizing problem. First, text boxes throughout the site are
re-sized
much
larger so the text no longer fills the space. This is a cosmetic
problem
only; one that I could live with (but would rather not). But I have
two
submission forms that are very important, and these have buttons and
boxes
that have moved up on the page and are now not synced with the text
that
tells what the buttons and boxes are for. So far, we have received no
complaints from our clients, most of whom probably use IE, but I would
like
to fix this problem if possible. My URL is http://www.burdin-adr.com.
Thanks.






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