Good job, reading through the other posts and finding the "semi-cure" steps
for the cross browser compatibility issues with Publisher...
As per the degraded images in FireFox, in general Pub 2003 produces multiple
copies of the images you insert into a Pub file, and several file formats.
If you Publish to the Web, and to a folder on your computer where you can
find it, then open that folder and you will see the different copies and
formats...gifs, pngs and jpgs. The idea behind this is that the "best" image
will load depending on which browser is used. Unfortunately that usually
means that the images loaded by FireFox are not very attractive...and
pixilated like yours. There is a workaround...post back if you want
instructions on how to do that, but I suspect that it is beyond the scope of
what you want to do with this project.
IMHO before you worry about how your images look in FireFox, I would suggest
you should be concerned about the size of your images and your page width.
You are using images that are way too large in file size and in dimension.
Your "flash page" which opens from the link to your webpage has an image
that is 1076 pixels wide, and 278 kb, which along with the other images you
have on that page makes for a verrrrry slow loading page via a dial-up
connection.
http://www.kitchenwalk.org/index_files/image308.jpg
You really should be reducing, resizing and optimizing those pictures in a
third party image editing program, before you insert them into your Pub doc.
Your goal should be an image closer to 50 kb...or far less, and keep in mind
the more pictures the longer it will take to load...and the more likely a
visitor will leave your site before the pages load. People are very
impatient....
But this isn't an ideal world, so assuming you don't have time to optimize
your pictures before you insert them into Publisher, then be sure to
compress them via Publisher before you Publish to the Web. Read: Compress
graphics file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011266301033.aspx
If you make no changes to your page sizes or anything else, you should at
least compress you images.
Part of good web design is learning how to optimize images for the web. If
you want to pursue this, then by all means Google on the topic, and read up
on the subject. To get you started, read the first two articles on David
Bartosik site on this page:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/search.aspx?q=images&p=1
Though this has little to do with the quality of your image, it is probably
more important. Your pages should not be wider than 800 pixels, and you
really should be using the default "standard" which is 760 pixels. File >
Page setup > Layout. 1076 pixel wide pages are just way too wide...
Hope I haven't overloaded you.
DavidF
