Re: Problem loading Pub 2003 website

Thanks so much David. I really thought I had done all that. I kept at it
tonight and mostly have everything up. I checked it in Firefox and IE and
there seem to be a few link problems and small glitches, but I think I will
sleep on it and try agin tomorrow. Jenny

"DavidF" wrote:

One thing you did not do that will make a difference is when you are ready
to produce your web files go to File > Publish to the Web... You are still
doing a File > Save As a Web page. Produce a new index.htm file and a new
index_files folder and upload both. Be sure to upload the index_files folder
intact with all the files within it.

And once again, go to Tools > Options > Web tab and confirm that you do not
have "rely on vml...' checked.

Did you compress your images?

You might also run Design Checker under Tools to see what errors that spots.

Do those two things and answer the one question and post back with your
results.

DavidF

"JennyJ" <JennyJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all your input David. I did everything you suggested, I got
with
godaddy help and did a few more things. I'm getting closer all the time.
Mt
pictures still won't load, although one of the before pictures on the
gallery
page loaded for some reason and we can't figure out why. The help person
at
godaddy downloaded frontpage extensions for me but so far that doesn't
seem
to be helping. Maybe not ready yet - he said give it some time. Do you
think
that's why the pictures don't show up? Or have any other ideas.?

"DavidF" wrote:

Relax...you have the hard part done...you have the content the way you
want
it. Now you just need to produce your web files correctly and make sure
to
upload all of them.

Unless you change the default settings in Pub 2003 when you produce your
web
files Publisher will produce a home page and an 'organizing support
folder'
that contains all your other pages and the supporting pictures and
graphics.
And once again unless you change the default, you will get an 'index.htm'
file (your home page) and an 'index_files' folder...the
organizing/support
folder. You must upload both the home page and the support folder to the
web
host, and you have not uploaded the support folder. That is why you have
no
images on your home page and cannot get to the other pages of your site.

You have further complicated matters by at some point naming your home
page
'PT Potential.htm' instead of using the default of 'index.htm'. This
resulted in all your links in your navbar looking for the other pages in
a
subfolder called 'PT%20Potential_files'. (The %20 is because you used a
space in the file name...never use spaces in a file name.) You can
observe
this by mouseing over the links and looking at the status bar. And if you
follow these links you get 'page not found', because you did not upload
the
"PT Potential_files' folder to your host.

To fix these issues you need to republish and upload new web files, but
first go to the first page of your publication and go to Tools > Web page
options and under 'Publish to the web', leave the field beside 'File
Name:'
blank. You do not want to call your home page 'PT Potential'. Then go to
Tools > Options > Web tab and uncheck 'Rely on VML for faster graphics
downloading'. This will fix the major reason your page is not rendering
in
FireFox.

Now you are ready to produce new web files so go to File > Publish to the
Web to produce your web files. Do not go to File > Save As > Web page in
Pub
2003! When you Publish to the web under File name choose 'index' as the
default for your home page, not 'PT Potential'. You will get a new
index.htm
file and an index_files folder. Upload both to your web host, and your
site
should work. Upload the 'index_files' folder intact with the files within
it. Be sure to overwrite or manually delete the old Publisher .htm files
on
your host. There may be an old 'index.htm' file, an old 'index_files'
folder
and/or a 'PT Potential.htm' file and/or a 'PT Potential_files'
folder...delete those.

You will probably still have a couple formatting issues with FireFox but
the
main pages should load. You should download and install FF and test each
page yourself. Once you get your pages to render correctly in both IE and
FF
then your site should also render correctly in Safari, Opera and Chrome.
So
test your pages and when you find other issues, post back with the
specifics
and we will help you tweak your layout or formatting so your pages enjoy
good cross browser compatibility. It is not that hard to get Publisher
pages
to be cross browser compatible, but concentrate on the main publishing
issues right now.

It is hard to tell at this point but I would guess that you should also
plan
on compressing the pictures in your site so your pages load more quickly
and
the images will also look good in FF.

Reference: Compress graphics file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web
pages (2003):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx

Reference: Compress Pictures dialog box (2007):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100363901033.aspx?pid=CL100605171033

And finally, eventually when you have your site working much as you want,
you will need to 'ungroup' your navbars in order for them to render
correctly in IE8. You can read other posts about this issue, or post back
for more information, but for now just uncheck the 'rely on vml..'
option,
compress your graphics and republish your new pages and get that working
before you start tweaking the formatting. You are almost there...

DavidF


"JennyJ" <JennyJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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picturethepotential.com - guess I should have mentioned that huh?

"Spike" wrote:

Jenny

What is the URL?

Spike

"JennyJ" <JennyJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I hope someone can help with this. I have tried everything I can
think
of
and
looked for answers on the board to no avail. I am trying to load my
website
onto godaddy and only get the first page and now images. The images
are
uploaded to godaddy. My nav links are working. When I do a preview
in
publisher everything works fine and I can't figure it out. I had a
one
page
loaded a couple weeks ago, got feedback that I should make it
multi-page
so I
changed it and now can't get it loaded. The other feedback I got on
the
single page site was that it wasn't visible in firefox. I'm not a
techy
and
don't understand much of the language. Can someone help me in a
simple
to
understand language, please. I' have spent hours and hours and am
really
fed
up!








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