punctuation other things chaged when publishing

[Jerry]

I have a web site (www.huntdeerinohio.com) That I created in Publisher 2003
about 3 years ago. I have updated and successfully uploaded the updates 3 or
4 times. I bought a new computer and loaded the same Publisher program on
the new computer. I copied the the web site to a CD and loaded it on the new
computer, made some changes and went through the same steps I always did to
upload the pages. If you go to the web site you can see the problems better
than I can explain them. Basically, some of the puctuation characters, like
quotation marks, are now little squares, there are little squares at the end
of each sentence, text that is nicely aligned in "web page Preview" appears
out of alignment on the internet. I have changed the encoding and tried some
other things until I am blue in the face. But nothing works to fix it. I
would try Vulcan encoding but couldn't find it. Like I said, I didn't have
this problem until I switched computers. Both computers are running windows
XP, the new one has more RAM and a bigger hard drive. I live out in the
country and my access is via a land line. The uploads take over an hour each
time and I have been working on this for a week. This is sooooo frustrating.
Should I just go buy frontpage or dreamwaever? Thanks!

 

[DavidF]

Change your encoding to Unicode (UTF-8). Before you Publish to the web and
upload new files, go to your site and delete the old Publisher
files...probably the index.htm file and the index_files folder and all the
files in it. Might not be necessary, but it can't hurt...

I looked at your code and I am betting that you are doing a Save As a web
page to produce your HTML. If so, that is producing a "unfiltered" code that
is really bloated, and would take a long time to upload. If that is what you
are doing, do a "Publish to the web" to produce your HTML and you end up
with filtered and lighter files.

If none of those things are true, then your might check the size of your
images: Compress graphics file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx

DavidF