Changes in Appearance & Placement

[Energy Management Solutions, Inc.]

When I created the .pub document, I got it looking just the way I
wanted and published it to the web via ftp. When I went online and
viewed it, the document appears changed. Some of the text looks all
fuzzy and low quality, some of the lines have moved, things don't look
the same.

Pardon my honesty. This is the first time I have used Publisher.
This is the first website I've made in ~10 years since I took an html
class and made a class project "website". I'm only just figuring out
what I'm doing along the way. When I asked around, what I was told is
that Publisher adds a lot of unnecessary html to its documents. Also
that the program is designed for *very* simple web pages. Mine is a
basic site, 12 pages with text, graphics, links from one page to
another, and a navigation bar. Not flashy. However, it seems to look
really crappy online now that I've published it. There is a line that
I didn't put there along one side of a text box. One of the lines I
put under a text box in the document shows up in the middle of the box
on the website version. The text looks all fuzzy. Other than that,
it pretty much seems to work.

It was suggested that I get and learn how to use Dreamweaver. I don't
necessarily have the time for that right at this moment, although I
can accept it in the long run (?) In the meantime, I'd like to either
make do with Pagemaker, or import the file into another program that
will take it. Front Page seems to do this, which is another Group,
and not without its challenges. Toward that end, any feedback on how
to maximize Publisher's abilities would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Pagemaker & Publisher are both for print. For some reason MS also lets
Publisher create websites with proprietary code - you can also create
webpages with Word and Excel and PowerPoint...oh oh oh.

Publisher is not an html editor, it takes the print paradigm and tries to
create websites, for real simple sites it's ok but does not produce
standards compliant code and probably never will. In fact I'd venture a
prediction that there will be no further development in this direction with
Publisher.

Dreamweaver, and Expression Web (FP's replacement product) are the two top
html editors right now.

Post the URL to your website for more help...and I'm pretty sure we can give
you some help making your site look better. But post it in the correct
newsgroup: microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign



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[DavidF]

Generally when text looks fuzzy in a Publisher web page, it is because it
has been converted to an image during the conversion to html. You can check
that by left click and drag to try to select the text on the web page. If
you can't select the text it has been converted to an image. Frequently this
happens in the newer versions of Publisher because you have the text box
grouped with other design elements on the page, and ungrouping will solve
the problem. The other issues you are having may also be simple formatting
issues, and easily corrected.

The choice of using Publisher to produce a website depends on the scope and
goals of the site. Although you will find many people that will frequently
discount any legitimate use of Publisher websites, the fact is that many,
many people are able to produce good looking, fully functional and effective
websites with Publisher. I also believe that Dreamweaver, Web Expression and
other full fledged web editors are overkill for what many people want in a
website.

Rather than debate the issue of whether you should be using Publisher, I
would suggest that you repost your question in the web group:
microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign, along with a link to the site, your
version of Publisher, and details about the issues you are having and we
will help you there. With a little tweaking, you should be able to get your
site looking and working the way you want. If what you are wanting to do is
beyond the scope of Publisher, we will also tell you that.

DavidF


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