Creating a website with Publisher

[Michael]

Hello all,

 

A teacher at a school has created a website in MS Publisher 2002 and all seemed well at the beginning, apart from all links now start:

 

file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\

 

With my own website I am used to editing pages using Dreamweaver, but also when you first create a website with Dreamweaver, you can specify the web domain your pages will use. Where do I specify this in Publisher?

 

At the moment when she FTPs pages, because all links start: file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\ nothing works. Any ideas?

[Netman]

Aaaargh - please don't let her publish that to the lovely internet...

Give her a copy of NVu or even better, point her at Joomla... please, for the sake of the internet... :D

[Domino]

I don't think its possible to specify a web domain in publisher. frontpage, yes, but not publisher - as its just not built for it.

[Lee_K_81]

how are they uploading to the web? going to a website and uploading the file or going to file | publish to the web. This should save it to a file without the file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\ addressing. I'm using 2003 so i assume it should be the same in 2002.

 

Failing that teach them web development, rather than using publisher of all things! ;-)

[Ryan]

What has the internet ever done to her? Why does she want to put Publisher code on the net? That's just mean...

 

I try and avoid the program, but are you not able to edit the links to be relative to the parent document? I'd give her Notepad as punishment. Or if you have Dreamweaver somewhere in the school, open it in that and clean it up. Hell, send it to me and i'll do it.

[Michael]

Thanks for the replies guys. I agree that Publisher isn't designed for webpages, but there are templates within the application which is exactly what she has used!

 

She's saving the files locally into a central directory, then using Smart FTP which I pre-programmed, so she can upload pages straight away.

 

I find it unbelievable there's no way to specify the root domain. I tried

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but it doesn't work

 

So are you telling me she needs to go and manually edit each hyperlink to every file/page?

Edited May 12, 2008 by Michael

[Lee_K_81]

So are you telling me she needs to go and manually edit each hyperlink to every file/page?

 

Have you tried my suggestion of going to "File -> publish to the web" even if she saves it to a seperate directory on her HDD which she then uploads from.

 

I think it should work as Visual Studio has a similar function.

 

Hope it helps.

[Michael]

Have you tried my suggestion of going to "File -> publish to the web" even if she saves it to a seperate directory on her HDD which she then uploads from.

 

The option doesn't exist. Maybe it's a feature of Publisher 2003?

[Netman]

Thanks for the replies guys. I agree that Publisher isn't designed for webpages, but there are templates within the application which is exactly what she has used!

 

She's saving the files locally into a central directory, then using Smart FTP which I pre-programmed, so she can upload pages straight away.

 

I find it unbelievable there's no way to specify the root domain. I tried

after

but it doesn't work

 

So are you telling me she needs to go and manually edit each hyperlink to every file/page?

 

I've done a find/replace on multiple files to fix things like this before - there should be some freeware out there to help you....

[Lee_K_81]

try this link:

 

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA010563151033.aspx

 

Not sure if it will help. Maybe you could update her version of publisher.

[Michael]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. I've recommended she takes a look at Frontpage which should sort out these and problems and easily be transferable from Publisher.

[Lee_K_81]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. I've recommended she takes a look at Frontpage which should sort out these and problems and easily be transferable from Publisher.

 

but almost as bad as publisher ;-)

[Irazmus]

What has the internet ever done to her? Why does she want to put Publisher code on the net? That's just mean...

 

I second that, the Internet deserves a lot of things but certainly not that.

 

Saying that we do teach kids how to make webpages in Publisher, but only to show them what a bad idea it is, and only once we've given them a grounding in HTML using Notepad. We then let them loose in Frontpage, which is not much better IMO. If I had my way they'd be using Vim

[srochford]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. I've recommended she takes a look at Frontpage which should sort out these and problems and easily be transferable from Publisher.

 

Remember that FrontPage is also dead - Expression Web Designer kind of takes its place.

 

Given that she's using an ancient version of publisher, I'm guessing that money is an issue (when isn't it!) - there is a free Microsoft product http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ which might be worth a look.

[Guest Guest]

On powerpoint you can do "Save to CD" or something like that. That saves things with relative paths. Dont know if publisher does it

[Edu-IT]

Aaaargh - please don't let her publish that to the lovely internet...

Give her a copy of NVu or even better, point her at Joomla... please, for the sake of the internet... :D

I agree with you entirely. Websites that have been created in Publisher should be kept on the local machine and never see the light of day on the internet.

[laserblazer]

I believe that Publisher code has problems with non MS Browsers.

[Edu-IT]

I believe that Publisher code has problems with non MS Browsers.

It's messy, that is why.

[Domino]

I don't know how well it works, but in newer dreamweavers there's an option called "clean up word html" which is supposed to clean out the gumpf....