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John Richardson - 20 Jun 2006 13:03 GMT

Is there a way of updating single pages of a website produced by Publisher
2000 Currently I have to overwrite or replace all images and pages on my site
especially if new pages and images hav been added otherwise all my images
appear corrupt and in the wrong place. I currently embed all images in the
file. Is this the wrong way to do it ?

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DavidF - 20 Jun 2006 13:26 GMT

Hi John,

You can import images into your pages vs. embed them, but making the change
over would take a while. Let me know if you want instructions.

Perhaps if you have a section of your site that you update periodically, but
the rest of the site is fairly static, you might consider breaking your site
up, and building it with multiple Publisher files. In this way you could
update only one section. Reference: "Building a web site with multiple
Publisher web publication files":
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/16/81264.aspx

DavidF

> Is there a way of updating single pages of a website produced by Publisher
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John Richardson - 20 Jun 2006 13:45 GMT

Hi David,
I thnik it may be worthwhile changing the file so that the images are no
longer embedded as it contains mostly images and pages which are continually
being added to and changed. Am I right in thinking that if I do this, each
page would retain the correct images irrespective of changes to the site.
i.e. by referring to a seperate and specific folder of images stored on the
website along with the html pages.
John

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DavidF - 20 Jun 2006 14:11 GMT

The short answer is yes.

Prepare your images for linking by resizing, resampling and optimizing for
the web using a third party image editing application. If you embed the
images, Publisher effectively does this for you.

Create a "images" folder where you will upload all your optimized images.

Use the insert HTML code fragment feature to insert a fragment box beside
the existing image on your Publisher page. Use the "snap to" feature to size
the code fragment box before removing the embedded image.

Although there are a number of ways to do this, try the following code
snippet.

<IMG SRC="http://www.yoursite.com/images/yourpicname.gif" ALT="What ever you
want as an alt tag">

The ALT tag is optional, but I like to include them myself.

You are likely to have to play around with the size and placement of the
code fragment box, and spend some time optimizing your images, but when you
are done, you will get what you are looking for...and chances are a better
image.

DavidF

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DavidF - 20 Jun 2006 14:23 GMT

A quick follow up...

If you are happy with the size and quality of your images as they are
currently generated by Publisher when you embed them, just Save As a Web
Page to your hard drive, and browse to each image within your HTML files and
rename each image that is generated to a more appropriate name, save these
renamed files into a different folder on your hard drive, and upload and
import those images. Example: img1.gif to waterfall.gif or img1.jpg to
differentpicturename.jpg, etc. This would save you the time of resampling
and optimizing the images in a third party program. You are just recyling
the images produced by Publisher.

DavidF

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