First of all, there is no need to apologize for helping with the links
question. Far from it. There are lots of ways of doing things and your
method was valid and helpful, and I am sorry if my follow-up post seemed to
negate that. I wish more people would participate. That is how I got
started...just lurking around reading and learning and then answering the
occasional question that I understood. It was quite intimidating actually,
cuz I realized there were others that knew so much more than I, but I found
out that some of those regulars appreciated my participation. So please do
jump in...its the best way to learn...and I certainly don't know it all.
There is nothing wrong with your uploading work flow. That is not the
problems with your code fragments.
As per your code fragments not doing what you want...sometimes it is
difficult to troubleshoot. Publisher generates two different sets of
code...one for IE and one for all other browsers. This means you will get at
least slightly different views of your site with different browsers.
Sometimes the fix is a simple thing like the code fragment box being too
small...or too big. Sometimes it is your design. Some design elements can
push others out of the way. Word wrap doesn't work for example. Sometimes
you have to move code fragment boxes else where...sometimes you need to use
different code. It can sometimes simply be trial and terror, trying
different things and testing in IE and FF until you get the results you
want. Download and install FireFox if you haven't already. It is a
relatively small download, and if you can get your pages to look ok in both
IE and FF, they will look ok in most other browsers. After you Publish to
the Web and direct your output to your computer, open the .htm files with
both IE and FF to test before you upload. I will sometimes deconstruct my
site by dragging different elements into the scratch area and then adding
back elements one at a time, or to different places on the page and
testing... until I can figure out how these elements are working or not
working together. This is part of web design...if something doesn't work the
way I want it to, I try something else.
One suggestion I do have. Before you finalize your design, test the bottom
navbar in FF. You will notice that the links are not active and that the
whole thing has been turned into an image. To get the bottom navbar to work
correctly in FF, you need to select the navbar in Pub, go to Arrange and
ungroup. This will disconnect the bottom navbar from the side navbar and the
wizard. If you add more links to the side menu, they will not appear in the
bottom menu. You have to manually update the bottom one. As I said, you can
wait to do this when you know how many pages you are going to include in
your navbar. Worse case, you can also delete the navbar and create a new
one.
Nuff for now. I will also answer your question about centering the pages
above later today. stay tuned...
DavidF
