Tine,
You have a number of things going on, but perhaps the most important is that
your navbar at the bottom of your page is converted to an image, and the
links won't work in FireFox.
http://www.animania.no/index-filer/image317.gif
I am assuming that you used the Publisher navbar wizard to build it, and for
some reason this always happens to the bottom navbar. The bottom wizard
built navbar work in IE, but won't in FF.
The quickest wordaround to this bug that I have found, is to open your
Publisher doc, create a text box the same size as your bottom navbar. Open
your website in IE. Select all the text in the navbar on your home page and
copy. Then go back to the new text box in your Pub file, and Edit > Paste
Special > formatted text. Drag your old navbar off into the scratch area for
now, and use the new text box/navbar that you just constructed instead. This
navbar will survive the conversion to html and the links will work in FF.
You will notice on each page on your site that the link for that page is
inactive, which shows the viewer where they are on your site. If you copied
the navbar from your home page to copy and paste into the text box, notice
that the "home" link is not active. If you want the same effect on each
page, temporarily insert an absolute link to your home page on the new
navbar you just created.
http://www.animania.no/index.htm
Now all the links to all the pages are active. Then just copy your new new
navbar/text box and paste it on each other page in your Pub doc, replacing
the old wizard navbar. After you have completed that step, go back to each
page, highlight the text link for that page, and remove the hyperlink. Then
you will have a navbar that looks the same as your original, but actually
functions.
Now one other note. If you make changes to your Pub file and add a page, you
will have to manually add the link to that page to the navbar you just
built. However, if you leave it up to Publisher to name that new page you
can't tell in advance what it is going to name it. Publisher arbitrarily
chooses a number for the pages. So you have two choices. Add the page, and
do a web page preview, click on the down arrow on the address field in IE,
and you should be able to see the page number, and then you can write and
insert the hyperlink.
Your second choice is to name the page....or more specifically, name the
..htm file. Go to Tools > Web Page Options and choose a name for the page and
put it in the File name field on that dialog. The when you publish to the
web, that page will be named accordingly. Example, name the new page "new",
and you will have a file name "new.htm".
And finally, if you want to avoid all this hassle, use a top or side navbar
instead of a bottom, and those will work in FF.
A couple other issues to consider. I have no idea why you have decided to
name your supporting folder "index_filer". I would suggest that go back to
the default of "index_files", so as to not complicate life in the future. If
you do of course you will need to change the links in your navbar
accordingly.
Also your background image that you are using, is too large and loads too
slowly. It is 503 kb. That takes several minutes on a dial-up connection.
So, compress your images before you upload. Reference: Compress graphics
file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx
And finally, go to Tools > Options > web tab and uncheck "Rely on VML..."
and "Allow PNG..." before you Publish to the Web and create your new html
files. This will also help with cross browser compatibility and quicken the
loading of your page.
No...you cannot center your page in Pub 2003 at this time. We have been
trying to figure out how but thus far the only workarounds found work only
in Pub 2002 and 2000.
As per the scrolling text box...post back when you get everything else done.
I am tired of typing <g>.
Good luck...DavidF
