Yes I did Don.
Although the first time I tried uploading my website, I of course made
the
mistake to which you are referring.
This is a fundamental fault with Publisher 2003 - with pictures,
everything
is hunky-dory, you put links to them dotted around your website, using
their
filepath/name just as it is on your computer. When you publish and
upload
the
site as "index.htm" and its folder "index files", the pictures travel
with
the site _and_the_links_stay_valid. Both these things _don't_ happen
for
music files. So you have to a) upload them separately and b) redo all
your
links. Pity they don't tell you that in the manual - oh yeah, there
isn't
one.
They have also done something to Publisher 2003 whereby the friend I
referred to, who has done dozens of websites in Publisher 2000 (poor
chap),
was completely stumped why his method didn't work in Publisher 2003.
There
is
quite simply a bug written in such that when you have a file on your
webspace
e.g.
www.tomball.co.uk/wav_files/dolphin.wav
and you put a link to it in Publisher, and then publish to the web, IT
DOES
NOT WORK. The file is there on the server, the filename is right, the
link
is
syntactically correct, I've tried umpteen variations on the theme, and
it
has
not worked. And yet other websites which I run off my webspace, which
were
made in Publisher 2000 with exactly the same method and syntax of links
and
filenames, DO work. Argh!!!
Today I got it working - hoo-flippin'-ray - by complete chance. I moved
the
wav files to a different folder in my webspace and renamed the links
accordingly. OK, the folder happened to be the same one that the
all-important "index" file was in, but I don't see why that should
logically
make a difference, given that the original filepaths and links
corresponded
equally well.
Oh and for other beginners mp3 files aren't supported. That cost me a
couple
of days alone. Thanks for tips on other threads.
Sorry for rant - product of days of frustration - now saving to buy a
Mac!
Finally to pre-empt the sarcasm from a certain David (see previous
threads
on this topic...), the reason I thought Publisher could make Websites
was...
because it says it can when it opens! And Frontpage sounds just as bad
as
Publisher.
Tom
:
Did you remember to upload the wav file to the server?
--
Don
Vancouver, USA
I used Publisher to build a website to publicise my music. I was
shown
how
by
a friend who has Publisher 2000 and it was easy to create a
hyperlink
to a
wav file, which was then embedded when you published to HTML.
Online,
clicking the link brought up Windows Media Player and played the
tune.
Simple.
Trying the same thing in Publisher 2003 just does not work. My
friend
and
I
have reset the links countless times, naming them /[containing
folder
on
my
webspace]/[filname].wav as suggested on one earlier thread.
I have searched through the FAQs and threads for tips on audio and
implemented suggestions I found, without results. When I publish to
the
web
and click on the links to the wav files, it still goes to a page
that
says
"error 404 - file not found".
Thanks
Tom
Tom