Safari & Firefox

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Cindy

I have created a website in Publisher 2003. Safari and Firefox users are
unable to navigate on it. I have read some of the other posts but don't
quite follow how I am to apply the instructions to my site.
www.awanacentralcal.org Mostly I have text, boxes, links and photos. I
think very basic stuff. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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Cindy

I am not using a Master Page, so ok on that.
I ran Design Checker and fixed those problems.
So am I understanding right that nothing can overlap?
 
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Cindy

I think I am figuring this out. I downloaded Firefox (as suggested in
another post).
Is there a way to use bullets in the text, or to put borders around a text
box and still have it work in firefox? I haven't figured that out yet.
Thanks.
 
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DavidF

Cindy,

It looks like if I wait long enough, you will figure all this out on your
own ;-). I looked at your site this morning, but did not have time to reply,
and since then it appears that you have fixed the navbar and some of the
other links. I presume that you discovered that if you have design elements
grouped together they can combine into one image and kill the links in
FireFox. I also presume that you figured out that if you try to select the
text and can't, then that text has been converted into an image.

As per the borders. You are using a double border and that does convert that
text box into an image and kills the links in FF. For some reason I find
that a single border does not convert it to an image, but the double does.
Use a single border, or test the other border styles to see if you can find
one that you like better...and works.

Bullets...I have found some inconsistencies in using bulleted lists if I use
the Format > Bullets and Numbering option. Sometimes it is ok, but
frequently it isn't. Instead I usually just insert a symbol in front of the
text, and that seems to give consistent results. Just Insert > Symbol and
scroll down through all the symbols until you find one that looks good. Stay
with a web friendly font.

I haven't gone through your site to see what other issues you may be having,
so feel free to post back with links to specific issues and we will be happy
to help you trouble shoot them. I would suggest that you plan on compressing
your graphics, as the first time I loaded your site the images took a long
time to load.

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

DavidF
 
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Cindy

Hi David

Yes, I figured out most of what you noticed. I will work on the
bullets/numbering and text borders as you suggest. I was about ready to try
a table instead of text borders, but your suggestion will be easier to
implement. All this will have to wait until tomorrow though. I will let you
know if I run into any other challenges.

This morning I was dreading all the work I thought it would be to fix it,
but once I got pointed in the right direction it really wan't too bad.

Thanks for your help.
 
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DavidF

Cindy,

Yep, it isn't as bad as it seems to get Pub webpages cross browser
compatible. The good news is that once you get your site working in both IE
and FF, then it is likely to work well in most browsers. Also, there are
lots of ways of doing things...you have discovered that already. Some
convert to html well...others don't. Welcome to web design with Publisher...

DavidF
 
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DavidF

Go to the page in your Pub file > Tools > Web Page Options. Under Publish to
the Web in the File name field, add your custom file/page name. Don't use
spaces or special characters, and you should probably use all lower case
(though I don't). So if you enter "BTO" the page link will be:
http://www.awanacentralcal.org/index_files/BTO.htm

If an image is not "downloaded", it can't be seen in the browser. If it can
be seen, it has been downloaded to the viewer's computer. So if you do not
want: http://www.awanacentralcal.org/index_files/image371.jpg available,
then don't insert it into your document. The use of VML in the Pub code
already prevents right click, copy image in IE, but not in FF. Other
approaches can disable right click entirely in IE, but not FF. Bottom
line...if you put it on your web page, it can be copied one way or the
other.

DavidF
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

hardly

and it will piss off anyone that uses right click menu to bookmark a site,
etc.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
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Mike Koewler

Spike,

No way! It will stop a fraction of people, those who are complete
newbies. AFAIK, nothing can disable PrintScreen.

If you cannot afford to have an image stolen, don't put it on a web site.

Mike
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

besides it would be quite lame to steal someone else's logo



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 

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