Re: NEED TO UPGRADE SITE FROM Publisher 2002... what to do?

At last.
A voice of sanity!

(...work still occasionally going on here converting 1000+ publisher pages
into pdf. Version 2000 too, so they're that not actually that bad, but bad
enough. At least that's one thing Publisher can do! It seemed like a good
idea at the time.)


"Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...and the worst part about using Publisher for web work is...by the time
the user finds out about the pitfalls, they have already produced a
website with 500 pages that can't be converted to normal html by any
editor, so all their effort is wasted because they'll have to start over.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression






"Eric James" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Apologies to all but I don't really have the time to highlight just how
remarkably stupid this piece of advice from DavidF is. I am beginning to
wonder if he is actually a real entity, or whether his posts are in fact
being generated by an artificial intelligence experiment in a Microsoft
laboratory, for which they have yet to develop the intelligence.
I can only direct those interested to seek out other sources of
information on the web on html coding and the importance of correct
coding and standards. Maybe start here:
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/#p3
Unfortunately it is simply not possible to create fully compliant or even
valid html code using Publisher, but even so it is misguided at best to
damage it further in the manner suggested.
There are some further sensible general tips here:
http://www.ianchadwick.com/ordovician/design.html

Just a snippet: "After all, the whole reason most of us use Publisher is
so that we don't have to mess with the coding or understand it."
So - clearly not understanding the code, he then advocates messing with
it! Badly. Unbelievable.


"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stevan,

It occurs to me that you might find this whole idea of editing the html
code of your Publisher websites files as intimidating, confusing,
difficult or somehow a bad idea. After all, the whole reason most of us
use Publisher is so that we don't have to mess with the coding or
understand it. However, the instructions that Don gave you do work, work
consistently, and are much easier than they may seem. And once you
download and set up ReplaceInFiles, changing your site files so that
they will automatically center is a simple two click operation.

To show you how easy and effective it is, try this manual code edit:

1. Open your Publisher 2002 file > File > Export As, just as you
normally do to produce your webfiles, but direct them to a folder on
your computer where you can easily find them such as your desktop.

2. Go to those newly generated website files and find the index.htm file
and double click it and open it in IE.

3. In IE go to View > Source and this will open your index.htm file in
NotePad. There is the html code for your page in case you never looked
at it before. Yeah, that is why most of us don't want to mess with html
coding and prefer to let Publisher do it for us.

4. In NotePad go to Edit > Find and paste in ' </head> ' without the
quotes
Find next. It will take you to where </head> is in the code. Or you
can
scroll down until you find it. Then paste ' <center> ' without the
quotes directly after </head>, so that the line will now read ' </head>
<center> ' , without the quotes.

5. Close NotePad and say yes to save the changes.

6. Double click the index.htm file again and open in IE, and now your
page will be centered in your browser window. Change the size of the
browser window and the page moves dynamically to the center regardless
of the size of the window.

Now to do that with each page of your website files each time you make a
change to your site would be tedious, and that is where ReplaceInFiles
is so handy. You don't have to open the .htm files in NotePad and ever
look at the source code or manually edit it. Once you set it up it will
automatically go through each page of your html code and replace '
</head> ' with ' </head> <center> '. And once you set it up to the
first time it remembers the setup the next time you open it, so from
that point on it is a two click, easy peasy (I like those words)
operation.

Of course if you switch to Pub 2007 then the only difference is the line
of code that you replace. Still easy peasy once you set it up correctly
the first time.

Try it, you'll like it ;-) We have been doing it for years without a
problem.

DavidF


"Stevan" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Current website (http://www.timesaversforteachers.com) is created in
Publisher 2002. I need however to redesign my site so that it opens in
the middle of the browser and not to the left side.
Can this be done in Publisher 2003? I have Publisher 2007 but it seems
useless as I can only see the first page and not the rest of the pages.
Can Publisher 2003 make my current page open in the middle (and maybe
even make it wider)? I am also concerned about the index page size as I
do not want this to be a negative issue. Any comments would be greatly
appreciated.

Stevan








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