The solution is to not use Publisher to create web sites if your viewers may
be using ANY browser other than Internet Explorer...really that simple.

Jenna
Within the Format Menu on the top is "Web Options" which opens up on the
left side and at the bottom of that pane is "More Web Options".  Click that
and under the "Web" tab, put a check mark on "Allow PNG as a graphics format
to improve graphics quality"

You will then have to go back to the jpeg or gif version of your photos
and/or gradient and save them as a .png.  You can do this by right-clicking
on the graphic/photo and choosing "Save as Picture".  Them navigate to where
you want to save it, name it, and in the "Save as type" drop-down box, select
.png.

Carefully replace all the pictures/graphics with the .png version and you
should be seeing more clearly!

Jenna,

Somehow, you managed to convert the whole page to one 761 X 2398 pixel gif
file when you open your site in FireFox:
http://www.borgford.com/index_files/image574.gif and that is why the whole
page is so grainy. I haven't seen this before.

I have never tried your way of resizing images using Publisher, and will
have to do some more testing to see how that affects the quality. In general
I have always advised people to resize the images in a third party image
editing program and then insert them at 100% scaling to get the best images
in both IE and FF. Then when you Publish to the Web, the Publisher coding
engine would make just one copy of the correctly sized image. If you just
insert your original image and resize it only by changing the size of the
image box, and thus the scale of the image, then when you Publish to the
Web, Publisher will actually make multiple copies of the image, and
typically try to load the original large image in IE, and the smaller, low
resolution copy in FF. At this point I can't tell if your method of resizing
your images is the main problem or not. One question, after right clicking
the image and then when you save it as a 96 dpi image, are you saving JPGs
as JPGs, or in other words in the same image format?

Given that you end up with one large image for the whole page when you load
your site in FF, I would suggest that we take this in steps.

I assume that you are using Pub 2003, so the first step is to go to Tools >
Options > Web tab and uncheck "Rely on VML..." and "Allow PNG...". This
change alone will change the way the page looks in FF. It also appears that
you did a "Save As a web page" to produce your html files. Yes? This
produces a bloated unfiltered code. When you are ready to produce your site
from your Publisher document, use "Publish to the Web" instead. Try
uploading this new html output to your site and see if the images look
better, and especially in FF. Let me know when you get the new code uploaded
so we can compare the quality of the images. If the quality of the images
are still not satisfactory, we can take additional steps at that time.

As to the text box issues could you give us a specific example to view on
your site? Sometimes if you are using print formatting techniques such as
word wrap around an image, master pages, etc, you will find that Publisher
cannot convert that to html. So describe what type of formatting you are
doing in the text box, and which font when you have the problem.

As per wanting the page to load in the center of the page, that's not going
to happen. Publisher produces a left justified page. You can sometimes
simulate a centered page, and you can read about that here if you want, but
for now I would concentrate on the rest of your issues.: Understanding
background padding in a Publisher web (aka white space) :
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80563.aspx

DavidF