Navigation bar at tottom of Web Page doesn't work in other browser

[Debbie]

Hi,

I'm new to web-design and recently purchased Publisher 2007 (Used 97 up
until now)

I've created a web-page which works well in IE. At the suggestion of others
posts on this board I downloaded a number of other browsers and "tweaked" the
web-site of some glitches that didn't appear in IE. Now my only, minor
issue, is my tables don't look nice in Netscape - the info ends up side by
side instead of in neat columns. But this is not a major concern right now,
and I'm sure I can figure something out.

What has me stumped is the navigation bar that is placed at the bottom of
each web-page does not work in browsers other than IE. It appears to be set
up the same as the navigation bar at the left side of the pages. I've tried
using web-page links to the pages on our server but that didn't help either.
What am I doing wrong? The site is:

www.mjyso.com

Thanks for your time,
Debbie

 

[DavidF]

Debbie,

The Publisher coding engine basically produces two sets of code...one for IE
and one for other browsers. The code that FireFox loads results in the
horizontal navbar at the bottom of your page being converted to an image
which kills the links. The code also kills the links in other text boxes,
when the text box is grouped with another design element.

You have a number of choices as to how to workaround this. Perhaps the
easiest is to ungroup bottom navbar. Select it, and go to Arrange > Ungroup
and you will be warned that ungrouping means that the Wizard will no longer
control this navbar. That means that if you add a page in the future, the
navbar wizard will add that page to your vertical navbar, but not your
horizontal navbar. You will have to manually edit the horizontal navbar and
the page link.

If you want to use this workaround go to each page and ungroup the bottom
navbar. One tip though...these horizontal navbar text boxes are still
synchronized to a each other, to a point. If you add a page to your
publication, and manually edit and add that link to the navbar on the first
page, the edit will be automagically reflected in each page...you won't have
to edit any of the original pages. You will have to copy and paste the
navbar to the new page.

Alternatively, you can build your own bottom navbar in a new text box after
removing the wizard built navbar. Just copy and paste the new navbar on each
page. Or you can use the insert html code fragment tool to insert a code
snippet that you hand code. Reference: Code your own textual navigation menu
in Publisher:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/16/81255.aspx

A tip on tables...copy and paste them back onto your page as an image....or
post a link to the page where you are having problems, and we might have a
better idea.

DavidF

 

[Debbie]

Thank you so much David,

The navigation bar now works and the fix was pretty simple.

In *Netscape* only these two pages don't load their tables correctly:

http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page380.htm
(Table has Orchestra Group, Rehearsal Time & Conductor listed)

http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page345.htm
(Table has Board Member title and name listed)

My idea to fix them was to just use separate text boxes side by side as
columns instead of a table.

The other thing I noticed is that the calendar in most browsers (other than
IE) is missing the lines to create the squares.

http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page533.htm

I haven't checked the page using AOL b/c I seem to have downloaded the wrong
file - it wants me to create an account first.

Thanks again,
Debbie

 

[DavidF]

Debbie,

Good...glad the links work.

Yes, one of the workarounds for fixing tables such as your first two
examples is to use two or more separate text boxes. Aligning rows can be a
bit challenging, but it can be done. FWIW your first examples render ok in
IE, FF and Opera.

As per the calendar table, that is more complex, and the copy and paste as
an image workaround might be a better approach. Select the calendar, copy,
and then go to Edit > Paste Special and paste as an GIF. Drag your old
calendar over into the scratch area so it will be available to update next
month, and drag your new GIF into the space where the old calendar was. This
GIF will show the lines.

I salute your willingness to test your site with all the different browsers,
but installing AOL is way above and beyond the call, in my opinion. Don't do
it! AOL software will make changes in IE and other things on your computer
that you really don't want to happen. It is just not worth it. And if you
already installed it, I think it would be worth considering doing a system
Restore to get rid of it. Granted that may seem a bit extreme, but I really
hate AOL in case you haven't noticed.

Good luck.

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

One does not need to install AOL software to use their browser. I use it
- it's one of the few that muck up a web site when the viewer selects
120 dpi fonts.

Mike

 

[DavidF]

Mike,

I wouldn't take the change of downloading anything from AOL...but that is
me.

DavidF

 

[clickerx]

The NavBar at the bottom seems to work for me OK in FireFox. FYI