If you are building a website that has 90+ pages, you should probably switch
to a different program. Publisher is a DTP that has limited website building
capability and is appropriate for small simple static sites. The larger the
site, the more difficulty you will have managing it with Publisher.

I would disagree with some of the statements made. Murray is incorrect in
his assertion that you cannot maintain a Publisher built website. Publisher
does have more code bloat than most programs, but that does not mean you
can't get fairly fast loading pages, and with the huge capacity of most
hosting programs now the physical size of the html files are not as
important as it used to be. Rob's statement is closest to accurate, and ties
into what Murray was probably trying to say. Publisher is not a code
editor...you edit your pages by going back to the original Publisher doc,
making your changes, and creating new html....you don't edit the html code
directly. Also as Rob implied, the code generated by Publisher is more for
IE than other browsers, and thus you will have cross browser
challenges....especially if you don't keep it simple.

Reference: Using Publisher for web sites:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/articles/80566.aspx

Bottom line is no serious web designer would choose Publisher to build
websites, but it all depends on what your goals and expectations are. If you
want a simple static site, and don't want to buy and learn additional
software, it can be a good choice. But as I said originally, if you are
building a 90+ page site, you will certainly be better off in the long run
if you switch now.

Sorry, no, you can't simply import the code from a Publisher website into
Expression or the others. The code is too different. You will have to
rebuild, but at least you have an idea of how you want to layout your pages,
and all the images and such are ready. That is one of the biggest, most time
intensive parts of designing and building any website.

DavidF

No...there's no quick way to convert.

But you may be able to drag/drop some design elements from publisher into EW
or FP...but NOT any VML graphics (textboxes/lines/autoshapes etc) - and text
would have to be cleaned up too.

Trez,

You might want to give Serif WebPlus a try. Okay, you have to buy it,
but it comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

A couple of reasons why:

It's cheap!
It's WYSIWYG.

But more importantly - you can import your current pages into WP. It
doesn't do it perfectly, but a lot of the basics will import perfectly.
You can also Cut/Paste from your Pub file to a WP file, making
rebuilding a large site easier.

Mike