Re: CONVERTED PAGE to 2007 and now title image is blurry!
- From: "DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:42:17 -0800
I am relieved...thanks so much for posting back. You had me worried.
I have not been a big fan or Pub 2002, but after this experience I won't be
so quick to dismiss it. It obviously offers some advantages over other
versions. And no...don't switch, even the way the links would be written
would change with Pub 2007, so that would negatively affect your rankings.
This whole conversation started out with you wanting to center your pages,
and thus the idea of moving to a different version. You can still do that
with the method presented by Don, and given you have figured out how to use
Paypal and build such a good site already, I am sure you will easily figure
out how to center your pages. And once you get it set up, it is a simple two
clicks to add the centering code each time you republish, so it is not hard
to continue.
Either way, good luck and thanks again for posting back.
DavidF
"Stevan" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi David,
Just wanted to get back to you and let you know that I did save the files
so that they do not get corrupted.
As a result of your advice I have also decided not to use Publisher 2007
for my webpage. The benefit does not outweigh the amount of work that I
would need to put into the conversion and adjustments. Right now my site
(www.TimesaversForTeachers.com) is highly ranked in Google for all of my
key words (usually near the top of page 1 or closely there. So, since the
site is doing well, I think that I will keep things as they are :)
Thanks for your advice. I am sure that we will bump into one another again
in this forum! Stevan
"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stevan,
I was hoping to see a post from you today saying that you did have a
backup copy of your Pub 2002 version of your website Pub file. I also
loaded your site again and looked at it in more detail, and the question
occurred to me, why do you want to upgrade to Pub 2007? What is it that
you can't do with Pub 2002 that you hope to achieve with Pub 2007? I am
not convinced that making the move is in your best interests. As I have
said in other posts to you, if you were happy with your site as built
with Pub 2002, why don't you should stay with it?
As the saying goes, you can't have something new without giving up
something old, and that is true of switching from Pub 2002 to 2007 to
produce your site.
You have already noticed that Pub 2007 handles images differently.
Without going into the details, you will be able to get your images to
render correctly using Pub 2007, but it is going to require some work,
and I am not convinced that the results will be as good as what you have.
They certainly won't be better. Also you are going to give something up.
In Pub 2002 (and Pub 2000) you can mouseover the images in your site and
the ALT tag pops up in a tool tip. I see you have incorporated this
feature quite extensively and well on your site. This will not work in
Pub 2003 or 2007. The alt tag is there, but the mouseover will not show a
tool tip.
In Pub 2002 you can right click your images and save them to your
computer. You can't do that with 2003 or 2007.
Your main menu on the left side of your pages is a textual menu in a
color filled text box. This works correctly in both IE and FireFox, but
if you produce the pages in Pub 2007, it will not work in FF. As a rule
if you insert color into a text box in Pub 2007 it usually converts all
the text into an image for the version of the page that renders in FF.
This kills the links. The workaround is to remove the color and create a
second text box with color and put it behind the text box with the text
and the links. Yes, you can achieve the same look, but once again more
work.
Another tradeoff that I was not aware of until this morning has to do
with your keywords. I was looking at your source code and noticed that
you are using a long list of keywords. You won't be able to put all of
those in Pub 2007...it limits the number to I think 256 characters. While
it is debatable as to whether using this many keywords is effective, you
will give up that option with Pub 2007.
I mentioned that I looked at your site in FireFox. The reason I did is
that as a rule if you can get a website to render and work correctly in
both IE and FF, then it will enjoy good cross browser compatibility with
the other main browsers. We encourage all Publisher users to test their
sites with both browsers. Though I haven't looked at each page of your
site, right now your Pub 2002 built site appears to work well in FF. If
you switch to Pub 2007, you will have other issues such as the color
filled text box to deal with. While you will be able to get a Pub 2007
version of your site to work in both IE and FF, why take on that extra
work?
All this leads back to my original question...why do you want to switch
to Pub 2007? What are you hoping to gain? Sometimes I think the best
policy is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Just because a company brings
out a new version of an application, that does not necessarily mean that
it is 'better' and that you should always 'upgrade'. There is almost
always a tradeoff, and in your case I am not convinced the advantages of
Pub 2007 outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to your website.
DavidF
"Stevan" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just converted my website to Publisher 2007 and was disappointed to see
my web title image (which looked fine in the 2002 version) blurry. My
site is www.timesaversforteachers.com. I have not uploaded the changes as
I need to make many adjustments to the site but in the preview the title
looks BLURRY. I don't think that I want my visitors to see my title as
such because it is unpleasant and unprofessional. Any idea what I need
to do in order to correct this image problem? Why does the image appear
fine in Publisher 2002 and through the browser and yet my preview in
Publisher 2007 shows it as blurry? I would be grateful for any assistance
and tips. It seems to me that I likely just need to make a minor
adjustment. Looking forward to your response!
.
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