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fherbertnz - 25 Oct 2005 08:17 GMT

I have used the "Publish to Web" option in publisher 2003 SP1 to upload my
web site.
I Select "Publish to the Web" from the file menu.
I create a new ftp location to save to (ftp.trickrider.co.nz).
I select that location and click save.

The web site is then uploaded.

Once the upload is finished, I browse to www.trickrider.co.nz and get a
whole lot of 421 - too many connections error messages because publisher has
changed the links to all my pictures to
ftp://ftp.trickrider.co.nz/public_html/index_files/imageXX.gif

Why has this done this??? I have looked everywhere in publisher settings to
set the base url but have been unable to change anything. This is very
frustrating....

Have a look at www.trickrider.co.nz and you will see what I mean.

How can I fix this???

Thanks.

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David Bartosik - 25 Oct 2005 20:50 GMT

Are you viewing your web site at - http://yoursitenamehere.com - or are you
trying to view them over ftp?
ftp address is used for uploading.
The address starts with 'http://" for browsing a web site.
Publisher does make a copy of your image and names it's copies. Do not
modify those files and/or their name, outside of Publisher.

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> I have used the "Publish to Web" option in publisher 2003 SP1 to upload my
> web site.
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> Thanks.

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fherbertnz - 25 Oct 2005 21:53 GMT

Hi David.

I am viewing the page at http://www.trickrider.co.nz - you can try it
yourself if you like. I have not modifying the code outside of publisher at
all. In fact I was considering doing this to get the site working as
publisher for some reason has linked all pictures to
ftp://ftp.trickrider.co.nz/public_html/index_files and not
http://www.trickrider.co.nz. I may just give up and redo the page in
dreamweaver or something that doesn;t scrrew my page up like publisher
has..... not sure if it is something I need to change in my pubisher setup or
not.

> Are you viewing your web site at - http://yoursitenamehere.com - or are you
> trying to view them over ftp?
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> > Thanks.

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DavidF - 25 Oct 2005 23:19 GMT

If I could jump in here, I went to http://www.trickrider.co.nz and your
site seems to load the images just fine, albeit sloooooowly. I even looked
at your Gallery page, and those images also loaded. One of the issues with
Pub 2003 is that images load very slowly. If you are using a dial-up modem
this is especially noticeable, and it may appear that the page is done
loading, but if you wait long enough your images do load. So I am not sure
what you mean by Publisher changed all your links to your pictures??

While I was there I noticed that you were overlapping some elements. Your
navbar at the top has the text cropped because of overlapping images and the
same on the Gallery page where you have the first image on the left
overlapping a text box. Word wrap does not work on a web page. Also, if you
happen to be using a master page, that is also a no no for a webpage...just
print docs.

Interestingly, your site actually looks better in Firefox than in IE...which
are you using as your default? I say interesting because Publisher is
designed to work best with IE. For example the overlap of text on your
navbar has the text to the front of the graphic instead of behind, and
images load more quickly...

DavidF

> Hi David.
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fherbertnz - 26 Oct 2005 03:23 GMT

Interesting... it does indeed work. I have just tried it from work using
safari and it works fine!!. I was using firefox at home and it just didn't
load any of my images, just kept giving me ftp errors god only knows what was
going on there. I will have to fix the overlaps now.
Thanks

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 26 Oct 2005 16:36 GMT

OMG! A Publisher made site that works in Safari on a Mac. Are the planets
aligned or something? Or has Safari and Firefox learned to handle CSS2
better?

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

> Interesting... it does indeed work. I have just tried it from work using
> safari and it works fine!!. I was using firefox at home and it just didn't
> load any of my images, just kept giving me ftp errors god only knows what
> was
> going on there. I will have to fix the overlaps now.
> Thanks

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fherbertnz - 27 Oct 2005 05:57 GMT

I think I have found the cause of my initial problem. My partner created the
web page in publisher and saved it as a .pub file. I just grabbed that from
her machine and clicked publish to web. When i did it that way, all the
pictures were referenced to the ftp base - ie
src=ftp://ftp.trickrider.co.nz/publich_html/index_files/pic1.gif... during my
turmoil, i saved the web page as html and then uploaded it and that seems to
have resolved the incorrect links.

I would like to know how to fix the overlapped navigation bar.. the nav bar
was created using the wizard, background images and all so not sure how to
fix that... i guess i could take the backround images away completely. But
then again it is only a problem when viewing the site using IE!!!!

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