Kevin,
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 text boxes with
active links, such as your "return to service" link, when the text box is
grouped with another design element.
On page:
http://www.taxtalkonline.com/index_files/how.htm your "return to
service" text box has been converted to an image in both IE and FF. You can
try to left click, drag, to select the text and you will see that you can't
in either FF or IE, even though the links still work in IE.
The solution is fairly easy. Just ungroup the "return to service" text box
from the line below it, and anything else it is grouped with, and the link
will work in FF. Just click on the text box, and go to Arrange >
Ungroup...or click the box below the group to ungroup.
The same is true of your 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. You will also have to 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 each
page.
I would suggest that you make a backup copy of your file to experiment with
just in case something goes wrong. Once you ungroup the bottom navbar from
the vertical one, there is no going back.
Now as to your problem with the pages not viewing correctly on a mobile
phone...tough...you shouldn't be using a phone to browse the web anyway ;-)
Seriously, I am not sure you can do much about this, as most web pages don't
view correctly on phones. I think the few that do have code and pages that
are specifically designed for phones. This is way beyond the scope of
Publisher web pages.
DavidF
TaxTalkOnline said:
David, really appreciate the step by step. It was great! BUT, now am
having
the following challenges. In mozilla all my links are not working. Mostly
they are the NAV Bar on the bottom and then on some pages
(I.e.
http://www.taxtalkonline.com/index_files/how.htm) the return to
service
link at the top right does not work.
The second challenge that I have is when I log onto a mobile phone I now
get
the pictures/images, nav bars etc. BUT it is all jumbled up. The layout
did
not stick.
Would appreciate more advice and help!!
