Microsoft Publisher - Master page doesn't show in firefox.

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Master page doesn't show in firefox.

J9Darkwing

2005-11-09, 7:47 pm

Publisher in Office 2003 Pro.

My site www.ignitionserviceandsupplyinc.com works fine in both IE and Firefox because I didn't use master pages to build it but I'm getting tired of having to change the same information on 25 seperate pages so I'm trying to use master pages. My problem is that when I apply a master page it shows up fine in the publisher program itself, works great in IE but absolutely nothing shows up in firefox.

Not only do I want potential customers who are firefox users to be able to see my site but I am a firefox user and I don't want to have to break out IE just to look at my website.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Also, a quick note, I haven't been able to figure out how to make the page automatically adjust to the size of the window or justify center. It always justifies to the left. I'd rather it be in the middle like www.yahoo.com page. Dunno if this makes sense or not.

Thanks

DavidF

2005-11-10, 6:50 pm

J9Darkwing,

So many Publisher 2003 users have reported that their sites did not work
well with Firefox, that the consensus seemed to be that Publisher 2003 just
didn't have good cross browser support. I viewed your site in both IE and
Firefox 1.0.7, and was actually pleasantly surprised that it loads just fine
in Firefox. Perhaps it is because they were using master pages and you
aren't...

As to center justifying your site, by default Publisher left justifies, and
there is no easy way to change that. There have been those who have offered
code that could be added manually to the html of each page, but that
generally is not a workable solution as there is no automatic way of doing
that with Publisher. What you have done by colorizing the background padding
is one of the work-arounds, and in your case works well in my opinion. I
think your site looks good in both IE and Firefox. Read more about this in
David Bartosik's article here:
http://publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=160

DavidF

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> Publisher in Office 2003 Pro.
>
>
> My site www.ignitionserviceandsupplyinc.com works fine in both IE and
> Firefox because I didn't use master pages to build it but I'm getting
> tired of having to change the same information on 25 seperate pages so
> I'm trying to use master pages. My problem is that when I apply a
> master page it shows up fine in the publisher program itself, works
> great in IE but absolutely nothing shows up in firefox.
>
>
> Not only do I want potential customers who are firefox users to be able
> to see my site but I am a firefox user and I don't want to have to break
> out IE just to look at my website.
>
> Any help at all would be appreciated.
>
> Also, a quick note, I haven't been able to figure out how to make the
> page automatically adjust to the size of the window or justify center.
> It always justifies to the left. I'd rather it be in the middle like
> www.yahoo.com page. Dunno if this makes sense or not.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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