I am having a real hard time

[jfmalewitz]

I am using Publisher 2003 to design my web page. It is going to be a simple
business site. But I am having major problems. I built the site, downloaded
cute FTP, and, if you look at the site, www.smiles-media.com, it is just a
bunch of garbled text. I have been asking for help from my web host. They
said to check and make sure it was ascii or binary, and make sure it was auto
(their recommendation). It already is auto. I tried binary to see if it would
work. Should I use a different FTP program for publisher? Again, the site is
www.smiles-media.com, and I am having a real hard time getting this to work.
I am close to paying for a web designer, or just some help. thanks

 

[DavidF]

I would guess that you did not upload your html files to the correct
directory. If you did, then
http://www.smiles-media.com/index.htm would work and it doesn't. Go back and
read the directions from your web host about where exactly to upload your
files. It may be ftp://www.smiles-media.com/ or they may have a specific
folder like public_html where you upload.

When you Publish to the Web to produce your web files, you should get an
index.htm file (your home page) and a index_files folder that contains all
your other pages and supporting images and graphic files. Make sure to
upload both, and the index_files folder intact.

Perhaps reference: Prepare, publish, and maintain your Publisher Web site:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA100947601033.aspx
You will be directing your html output to somewhere on your computer, and
then ftp uploading from there, but the general description of the process
might be helpful. Also read the directions in the FAQ section on uploading
and what directory to use on your host.

DavidF

 

[jfmalewitz]

Thanks David,
If you go to my page now, it shows the home page. However, the rest of the
links are not working. I followed your directions and they worked, now the
next step is to get my navigation bar to work. If you or anyone else could
help, I would appreciate it. Thanks again.
www.smiles-media.com

 

[jfmalewitz]

This has been resolved. I appreciate your tips, David, they were dead on.

 

[John G]

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While I was writing the reply below the links suddenly started to work.
Did you just Upload the Directory?
Still the bottom bar problem exists.

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Your home page loads fine and your SIDE Nav bar works but leads to pages
that cannot be found SO--
Did you upload the Directory INDEX_FILES ?
That is where all the other files are to be found and the links in your
home page correctly try to find these pages but it would seem they aree
not there..

A seperate issue is that the Bottom Nav bar does not work.
This seems to be the way it is with PUB 2003/2007. Without rebuilding
the bottom bar it never works with a page constructed simply by PUB.

 

[DavidF]

John,

Generally spot on advice. However, the bottom navbar that is produced by the
built-in wizard in Publisher does work in IE...it is just a problem in FF,
and perhaps other browsers. To fix it, just select it, go to Arrange and
ungroup, and the links will then function in FF. The only problem is that if
you add a page then the wizard is now "disconnected" from that bottom
navbar, and additional links won't be automatically added. You will have to
do it manually.

DavidF

 

[John G]

David,
Yes what you say about the bottom Nav bar is nearly correct but it
certainly does not work as advertised when you have to break it to make
it nearly work.
A Pub 2002 page works as advertised.
A Pub 2003/2007 page works in IE6 but not Firefox and it does not work
in IE7 just like it does not work in FF.
Yes your bandaid works but when you want to add more pages it is all
bad.

 

[DavidF]

John,

Your experience may be different than mine, but with Pub 2003 and 2007 if I
go to Tools > Options > web tab and uncheck "Rely on VML..." (2003 only),
and "Allow Png...", and then produce the web pages...the html, by "Publish
to the Web" and not "Save as a web page", then the bottom navbar does work
in both IE6 and IE7, but not FF. Then if you ungroup the bottom navbar and
produce the html, the bottom navbar does work in FF. I just reaffirmed that
this indeed does work.

If your experience is different than mine, then I would suggest using the
"Publish to the Web" method of producing the html, and not the "Save as a
web page". Your practice of using the second method which produces "rich" or
"heavy" pages with Office tags, may account for why this does not work in
IE7 for you.

As for 2002, I will have to take your word for it as I do not have Pub 2002
installed.

And yes, as I said, in my post if you ungroup the bottom navbar from the
wizard, then if you add a page in your Pub file after that, you will have to
manually add that link to the bottom navbar on each page. Not a perfect
solution, but a reasonable workaround for this bug, especially if you wait
until you have built your site and included all the pages, before you
ungroup the bottom navbar from the navbar wizard.

Furthermore, if you find a link within the body of the web page that does
not work in FF, then it is likely that ungrouping that design element will
also fix that link.

DavidF