How do I override the absolute positioning in publisher?

[Teresa]

I have publisher 2003 and am having trouble with the absolute positioning on
my webpage - I choose to do a free hosting with ads at the top so my page
goes to the right - and you cannot tell it is there. You only see the ads. I
cannot figure out how to change this so that my page shows under the ads.
Help!

 

[DavidF]

Sorry, but you don't. That is just the way that Publisher works. Either use
different software to produce your site, or find a different web host.
Publisher websites do not play well with hosts that frame the pages.

DavidF

 

[squiresp]

Hi, I also have the same problem as I have a free hosting with GoDaddy. Its
a real pain but I guess I am going to have to change the program I use to
create my website. I get different views from IE and Mozilla. You can see
whats happening to mine at www.affiliatemarketing-zone.com

Good luck
Paul

 

[Spike]

First area of concern is the background
You are using a gradient filled image
FF Mozilla and others don't like that

Try a solid background and see it that helps

With FREE hosting you get FREE situations to overcome

Spike

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

you can't turn absolute positioning off.

 

[DavidF]

Another Publisher user found an old post of mine where I quoted a workaround
posted by yet another user, that I had forgotten about. Hopefully you will
see this.

"Instructions for publishing to an ad-supported free web site through
GoDaddy using MS Publisher


1. Publish website to folder on local computer first
2. Open "index.htm" in browser window
3. Under the "Page" pulldown menu, select "View Source." This displays a
..txt file, showing the html code.
4. Using find & replace (under the "edit" menu), search for the first
instance of the word, "absolute" in the html code, and replace it with the
word "relative."
5. This process must be repeated for each page individually, by navigating
to each locally-published page from within a web browser, viewing the source
html code, replacing the first instance of "absolute" with "relative," then
saving the file before navigating to the next page.
6. Once finished making changes, the locally saved "index.htm" file and
accompanying folder must be copied and pasted (uploaded), via ftp client to
your GoDaddy website, and "voila," you should be up and running!"


My Note: You can also open the index.htm file and the other *.htm files in
the index_files folder directly with Notepad.

DavidF

 

[jts]

Thanks for great info. This solved my issue and save me a lot of work
rebuilding my pages with another program.

 

[DavidF]

Glad it worked for you and thanks for the feedback.

FWIW I think that if you are planning on updating your website very often
that the manual editing of the code each time will become tedious. Given the
low cost of paid hosting, switching from the free hosting is a better
solution IMHO...but to each their own.

DavidF