Yeah, this website building stuff can make your head hurt. Now you know
why the professionals get paid the big bucks...;-)
I see what you are talking about, and any time a JPG is converted to a GIF
the quality is going to be reduced whether it is done in an image editing
program, or by Publisher. It appeared to me that when you overlapped
images it was worse than when you used just one image, but you also have
some "blotchy" single images. This is probably a function of the original
photograph...some were better than others? I don't know. Bottom line is
that Pub 98 converts JPGs to lower quality GIFs by default, and that is
something you have to live with, or work around as I discussed. And no,
there is not an easy way.
When I referenced the link
http://www.nakarminiatures.com/img73.gif I
wanted to illustrate how the text was also converted into an image along
with the original images of your horses. That particular example converts
two text boxes and 4 images into one big image. This is usually caused by
overlapping the text boxes, but it can also happen if the text box is
simply too close to the image. Resize your text box, or nudge it over, and
away from the text until the text is no longer converted. You can do a web
page preview to test.
The Design Checker is likely to be under Tools, but you could also go to
Help and type in "design checker" and see if that tells you where, or if
you have the tool. As I said, you can test the text by trying to
highlight/select it in web page preview, or on your site. If it has been
converted to an image, you won't be able to select it. And yes, the text
will look close to the same...just not as good and crisp when it is
converted.
Once again, the bottom line is that there is no easy way to do what you
want. You gained convenience by using Pub 98, a desktop publishing
program, that has limited web building capability. The trade off is that
if you want better results, you either switch to a better program designed
specifically for web building, or you invest the time to workaround the
limitations. The workarounds I described are not really that hard, but
they do require you to invest some time to learn a bit about image
editing, and a bit more about how web pages are built...this work can be a
bit overwhelming at first, but goes with building your own site. Heck, you
have the basics of a pretty attractive site that obviously took a long
time to build...live with it until you can learn more about image editing,
and the other things you need to do, and then do one thing at a
time...you'll get there.
DavidF
