Publisher web sites do not display correctly in Firefox

[Darius]

I have a website which used to work with earlier versions of Publisher, but
since upgrading to 2003 the website doesn't display correctly in Netscape and
Firefox etc. IE is fine. All the images are completely ignored by non IE
browesers and the site is not layered and all test comes ot linear.

the website is www.honeysuckle-cottage.org.uk

I noticed that some of the images have been converted into .png files but
even the .gif and. jpg files don't work.

Grateful for any input into this.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Publisher produced websites are primarily IE only - although pub webs may
display on different browsers sorta ok - but don't count on it.




|I have a website which used to work with earlier versions of Publisher, but
| since upgrading to 2003 the website doesn't display correctly in Netscape
and
| Firefox etc. IE is fine. All the images are completely ignored by non IE
| browesers and the site is not layered and all test comes ot linear.
|
| the website is www.honeysuckle-cottage.org.uk
|
| I noticed that some of the images have been converted into .png files but
| even the .gif and. jpg files don't work.
|
| Grateful for any input into this.

 

[DavidF]

As Rob said, Pub 2003 produces code that does not have good cross browser
support. If you still have Pub 2000, I would install it again in a different
folder on your computer, and use it to produce your website. Pub 2000 code
is more basic and more simple and works much better across the board.

With that said, some people have managed to produce websites with Pub 2003
that do work in FireFox and other browsers. When I viewed your site, I used
a dial-up connection to test it, and even in IE your images were very slow
loading. Here is an article you should read: Compress graphics file sizes to
create smaller Publisher Web pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011266301033.aspx

In addition to compressing your images (which happened somewhat
automagically in Pub 2000), I would also go into Tools > Options > Web tab
and untick "Rely on VML...", "Allow PNG..." and optionally "Enable
incremental...".

Also if you are still using the "save as a web page" to produce your HTML
code as you would in Pub 2000, then don't. That saves a rich text HTML code
that is way bloated. The best way is to use the "Publish to the Web" option
for "filtered" HTML code. Still more bloated than Pub 2000 code, but better.

Do all of that, delete all your files off your web host and see if that
improves things. But as I said, if you have Pub 2000, go back to it.

DavidF

 

[Darius]

Thank guys! Guess I will go back to 2000. I must admit the images did not
load immediately with my broadband service which worried me.