Microsoft Publisher - My Links don't work anymore when I use preview webpage or when pub

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My Links don't work anymore when I use preview webpage or when pub

Kimberly

2007-03-09, 6:16 pm

David ... You seem to be a link expert. I am a total novice and just figured
out today how to both use publisher and publish to the web. I designed a
simple 4 page design but for some reason my links are broke. If I start
clicking through the links starting with Home they work to transition through
all the pages however once I get to page 4 it locks.
www.analyzeitconsulting.com. Any ideas?

Thanks ... kimberly (kimberly.jones@analyzeitconsulting.com)

"DavidF" wrote:

> I am not totally sure why you are having all your problems, but the biggest
> part of it is probably the way you have organized your directory. If you can
> explain how you did it, it would easier to suggest a solution.
>
> If you use Pub 2003 with the default settings and the subfolder option, when
> you Publish to the Web you will get an index.htm file and an index_files
> folder. The index.htm file is generally the home page, and all your other
> pages are contained in the index_files folder. If you use the navigation
> wizard in Publisher to produce your navbars, it writes relative links to
> your pages...relative to the index.htm file...the home page. But your home
> page is not index.htm, thus your problems.
>
> When you go to your website http://custom-musclecars.com/, the browser takes
> you to a "splash" page where you enter the site. (NICE looking car by the
> way) You then enter the site, and go to your current "home page"
> http://custom-musclecars.com/index_files/Page266.htm , but you have another
> index.htm file that you are using for your About Us page:
> http://custom-musclecars.com/index_files/index.htm . I believe that FF is
> choking on this confusion. I know that I am left confused as to how you have
> the directory set up.
>
> I could offer a way to organize your directory that would work in IE and in
> FF, but before I do, post back specifically how you have your directory
> organized at this point. I don't want to suggest a totally different way, if
> we can just tweak the way you are currently doing it.
>
> As per some of the links not working on your site in FF, if we can fix the
> primary issue of how you have things organized, we can get your links to
> work, with one exception. Navbars produced using the navbar wizard in Pub
> 2003, for the bottom of the page, are converted to an image by FF, which
> kills the links. I don't know why...it just does. This means that if you
> want a navbar on the bottom of the page, you will have to build it by hand,
> and use absolute links. But we can get into that as a second step.
>
> Bottom line is that the site that you built with Publisher can be tweaked so
> it will work just fine in both IE and FF...you just need to organize it in a
> different way. Post back with the specific details of how you are currently
> organizing the directory, and how you produce the bottom navbar, and we will
> be able to fix it.
>
> DavidF
>
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> "Custom Musclecars" <Custom Musclecars@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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DavidF

2007-03-09, 10:15 pm

So, you want me to analyze it and consult with me eh? ;-)

If you mouseover the home page link button, it does not link to the
index.htm file...it links to
http://www.analyzeitconsulting.com/...es/Page508.htm.

Tried your other links, and I was able to move through your site, but your
navigation system appears to has been corrupted. The links do not correlate
with the pages. I suspect that you did some editing and added and took away
a few pages or you tried to edit the navbar buttons directly. Your fix is
probably to let the wizard rebuild your navbar.

Open your Pub file and go to your last page. Then Tools > Web Page Options.
In that dialog you will see the option to "Add hyperlink to new nav....".
Uncheck that option and that page will be removed from the navbar. Repeat
with page 3, then 2. Now on your home page you should see only one navbar
button. Open the Web Page Options dialog again, and confirm that you are not
giving that page any particular file name, but you do add your page title.
When you Publish to the web, you will choose to let Publisher use the
default index.htm file name. Now go to page two, confirm your page title,
and recheck the "Add hyperlink...", and a new navbar button should appear.
Repeat for each page, and you should be good to go. Publish your new html
output and upload it, and see if that doesn't fix things.

In the future I would suggest that you start a new message, even if your
subject is the same. Most will assume you are just adding a comment to the
existing thread.

DavidF

"Kimberly" <Kimberly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FB98129D-8959-418E-A8AD-93FB7FD63BA4@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
> David ... You seem to be a link expert. I am a total novice and just
> figured
> out today how to both use publisher and publish to the web. I designed a
> simple 4 page design but for some reason my links are broke. If I start
> clicking through the links starting with Home they work to transition
> through
> all the pages however once I get to page 4 it locks.
> www.analyzeitconsulting.com. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks ... kimberly (kimberly.jones@analyzeitconsulting.com)
>
> "DavidF" wrote:
>