Will Publisher Still Work?

[CWWJ]

I am posting this question for the second time as it did not appear the first
time around. I recall that Publisher experts told me last year that because
Publisher web sites are not compliant with international standards they will
not work successfully with all browsers including new interations of IE. Is
this still true? I am getting ready to redo my company's web site and will
not use Publisher if it is not going to be a viable web authoring tool.
thanks.

 

[DavidF]

I posted a response to your question in the general Publisher group, but
will repost a portion of my response here.

Rather than repeat myself, I would instead suggest that you read the post
and thread "Internet Explorer 8
by Eric James on Feb 25th " in the general Publisher newsgroup where you
first posted. There you can read a number of looooooong responses.

And now that you are here in the proper group, please post a link to your
website and preferably download FireFox (7.8 MB):
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ install it, and test your site for
where it does not work correctly. Then post links to the pages where you
find problems and specifically what those problems are and we will provide
the fix. Contrary to what some people think, you can build a website with
Publisher that is cross browser compatible, and it can even be fixed to run
in IE8 RC1 without resorting to compatibility mode.

DavidF

 

[CWWJ]

Thanks, David -- you have always been helpful. I entered into a long
dialogue with you and other Publisher gurus early last year over these
compatibility issues. The main issue was one of screen resolution. If I
publish at 96dpi, those who visit our site at that resolution have no
problems at all. If, however, they visit at 120dpi on Firefox, it is a
disaster. Forms don't work, text is misaligned, font sizes are changed, etc.
Currently, my company gets few complaints, and I completely redesigned the
site last year to produce a look that gave the illusion of being "centered,"
something else that Publisher cannot do. I will visit the threads you
recommended and will install the newest version of Firefox. Meantime, here
is my URL: www.burdin-adr.com.

Thanks much

 

[CWWJ]

Thanks, David -- you have always been helpful. I entered into a long
dialogue with you and other Publisher gurus early last year over these
compatibility issues. The main issue was one of screen resolution. If I
publish at 96dpi, those who visit our site at that resolution have no
problems at all. If, however, they visit at 120dpi on Firefox, it is a
disaster. Forms don't work, text is misaligned, font sizes are changed, etc.
Currently, my company gets few complaints, and I completely redesigned the
site last year to produce a look that gave the illusion of being "centered,"
something else that Publisher cannot do. I will visit the threads you
recommended and will install the newest version of Firefox. Meantime, here
is my URL: www.burdin-adr.com.

Thanks much

 

[DavidF]

CWWJ,

I now remember you and your site, and must say I am impressed with what you
have done with it since we last discussed it. Very nice...

I am really time pressured today, so I will ask a big favor. Would you
please upload your whole Publisher file to www.yousendit.com and provide a
link so I can download it? I really want to do some more testing, and this
would be very helpful to me, and hopefully in helping others in the future.
If you are uncomfortable posting the file for download to everyone, would
you please send the link to the file to dahveedf att gmail dott com? Please
put 'Publisher File' in the subject so I can spot it if it gets caught in my
spam filter.

Thanks.

DavidF

 

[Maggie]

I posted a response to your question in the general Publisher group, but
will repost a portion of my response here.

Rather than repeat myself, I would instead suggest that you read the post
and thread "Internet Explorer 8
by Eric James on Feb 25th " in the general Publisher newsgroup where you
first posted. There you can read a number of looooooong responses.

And now that you are here in the proper group, please post a link to your
website and preferably download FireFox (7.8 MB):
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ install it, and test your site for
where it does not work correctly. Then post links to the pages where you
find problems and specifically what those problems are and we will provide
the fix. Contrary to what some people think, you can build a website with
Publisher that is cross browser compatible, and it can even be fixed to run
in IE8 RC1 without resorting to compatibility mode.

DavidF

 

[Maggie]

First time using this website for forgive the blank reply.

Anyway, my reply is for DavidF. I, too, am having trouble seeing my website
on other browsers. I'm crazy about Publisher and want to continue using it
but it's not good when the majority of people I know are now using Foxfire or
Safari. If the problem continues, I'm going to have to find another program
to build my website. In 2005, I coud see it on both of those browsers just
fine. I don't know what Microsoft did to prohibit that but I would like to
know if the problem is going to be solved and when

Maggie

 

[serg]

This is my first website that I am designing and just randomly tried to
access with Safari and was shocked to know that my color and hyperlinks to
PDF's and websites in links do not work. Neither do my bookmarks on the
page. Besides the color all the information is there.

the site is www.unite2010.ca which is linked to the
www.mts.net/~hserger/index.htm

That could be my first mistake adding the index.htm. But it sounds like
others are haveing the same problem. I have downloaded Firfox and will look
at it and see if there are any other issues.

 

[DavidF]

On your home page you have a link to more information in the main text box.
In FireFox, and probably Safari, that text has been converted to an image
and that is what killed the link. Typically this happens because you have
grouped that text box with another design element. Ungroup it and test
again. The same problem is probably the reason for your other link problems.
You can see that the text has been converted to an image. Try left click,
drag to select the text...if you can't...it is an image.

Please help us help you by always telling us what version of Publisher you
are using. Also tell us specifically what is not working and provide a link
to the page where you are having the problem. We don't have time to go
through each page and hunt for problems.

In the future, please post a new message rather than adding to another
message thread. When you do it appears that you are answering that thread
and your new question may go unnoticed and you may not notice a response to
your question.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Please help us help you by always telling us what version of Publisher you
are using and posting the URL of your site Also tell us specifically what
is not working and give us a link to where we can find the problem. We don't
have time to go through each page and hunt for problems.

In the future, please post a new message rather than adding to another
message thread. When you do it appears that you are answering that thread
and your new question may go unnoticed and you may miss any answers to your
question.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

In case you did not see my other reply, then please contact me at dahveedf
att gmail dott com. I have some ideas I would like to run by you.

DavidF

 

[Fred]

David et al:
Your efforts to help people make Publisher web sites work, if perhaps a
little misdirected, are of course commendable if not actually amusingly
futile in the face of the oncoming tide, but it really would help everyone,
yourself included, much better in future if you were to include the one
piece of missing advice which has been blindingly obvious to the better
informed for quite a long time, which is, quite simply:
"Don't use Publisher to build web sites!"
Ignore this maxim at your peril.

 

[firemedic74]

I posted a response to your question in the general Publisher group, but
will repost a portion of my response here.

Rather than repeat myself, I would instead suggest that you read the post
and thread "Internet Explorer 8
by Eric James on Feb 25th " in the general Publisher newsgroup where you
first posted. There you can read a number of looooooong responses.

And now that you are here in the proper group, please post a link to your
website and preferably download FireFox (7.8 MB):http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/install it, and test your site for
where it does not work correctly. Then post links to the pages where you
find problems and specifically what those problems are and we will provide
the fix. Contrary to what some people think, you can build a website with
Publisher that is cross browser compatible, and it can even be fixed to run
in IE8 RC1 without resorting to compatibility mode.

DavidF






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I am having the same problem. I am having a hard time fixin this. The
web site is http://www.easimedics.com
Please help me!!!

 

[DavidF]

I assume you are talking about the navbar not working in IE8, is that
correct? Are you talking about the navbars not rendering in IE8? If you have
something else wrong, please give us the specifics.

I looked at your site in FireFox and you have some other issues too. Which
version of Publisher are you using? If you fix your site such that it works
with both IE7 and FF3, then it will be cross browser compatible in most
browsers.

Get back to me with the answers to my questions and I will offer some
solutions to all of above.

DavidF

I posted a response to your question in the general Publisher group, but
will repost a portion of my response here.

Rather than repeat myself, I would instead suggest that you read the post
and thread "Internet Explorer 8
by Eric James on Feb 25th " in the general Publisher newsgroup where you
first posted. There you can read a number of looooooong responses.

And now that you are here in the proper group, please post a link to your
website and preferably download FireFox (7.8
MB):http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/install it, and test your site
for
where it does not work correctly. Then post links to the pages where you
find problems and specifically what those problems are and we will provide
the fix. Contrary to what some people think, you can build a website with
Publisher that is cross browser compatible, and it can even be fixed to
run
in IE8 RC1 without resorting to compatibility mode.

DavidF






- Show quoted text -

I am having the same problem. I am having a hard time fixin this. The
web site is http://www.easimedics.com
Please help me!!!