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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / October 2007Navigation bar at tottom of Web Page doesn't work in other browser
Hi, I'm new to web-design and recently purchased Publisher 2007 (Used 97 up until now) I've created a web-page which works well in IE. At the suggestion of others posts on this board I downloaded a number of other browsers and "tweaked" the web-site of some glitches that didn't appear in IE. Now my only, minor issue, is my tables don't look nice in Netscape - the info ends up side by side instead of in neat columns. But this is not a major concern right now, and I'm sure I can figure something out. What has me stumped is the navigation bar that is placed at the bottom of each web-page does not work in browsers other than IE. It appears to be set up the same as the navigation bar at the left side of the pages. I've tried using web-page links to the pages on our server but that didn't help either. What am I doing wrong? The site is: www.mjyso.com Thanks for your time, Debbie Debbie, The Publisher coding engine basically produces two sets of code...one for IE and one for other browsers. The code that FireFox loads results in the horizontal navbar at the bottom of your page being converted to an image which kills the links. The code also kills the links in other text boxes, when the text box is grouped with another design element. You have a number of choices as to how to workaround this. Perhaps the easiest is to ungroup bottom navbar. Select it, and go to Arrange > Ungroup and you will be warned that ungrouping means that the Wizard will no longer control this navbar. That means that if you add a page in the future, the navbar wizard will add that page to your vertical navbar, but not your horizontal navbar. You will have to manually edit the horizontal navbar and the page link. If you want to use this workaround go to each page and ungroup the bottom navbar. One tip though...these horizontal navbar text boxes are still synchronized to a each other, to a point. If you add a page to your publication, and manually edit and add that link to the navbar on the first page, the edit will be automagically reflected in each page...you won't have to edit any of the original pages. You will have to copy and paste the navbar to the new page. Alternatively, you can build your own bottom navbar in a new text box after removing the wizard built navbar. Just copy and paste the new navbar on each page. Or you can use the insert html code fragment tool to insert a code snippet that you hand code. Reference: Code your own textual navigation menu in Publisher: http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/16/81255.aspx A tip on tables...copy and paste them back onto your page as an image....or post a link to the page where you are having problems, and we might have a better idea. DavidF > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Thanks for your time, > Debbie Thank you so much David, The navigation bar now works and the fix was pretty simple. In *Netscape* only these two pages don't load their tables correctly: http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page380.htm (Table has Orchestra Group, Rehearsal Time & Conductor listed) http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page345.htm (Table has Board Member title and name listed) My idea to fix them was to just use separate text boxes side by side as columns instead of a table. The other thing I noticed is that the calendar in most browsers (other than IE) is missing the lines to create the squares. http://www.mjyso.com/index_files/Page533.htm I haven't checked the page using AOL b/c I seem to have downloaded the wrong file - it wants me to create an account first. Thanks again, Debbie Debbie, Good...glad the links work. Yes, one of the workarounds for fixing tables such as your first two examples is to use two or more separate text boxes. Aligning rows can be a bit challenging, but it can be done. FWIW your first examples render ok in IE, FF and Opera. As per the calendar table, that is more complex, and the copy and paste as an image workaround might be a better approach. Select the calendar, copy, and then go to Edit > Paste Special and paste as an GIF. Drag your old calendar over into the scratch area so it will be available to update next month, and drag your new GIF into the space where the old calendar was. This GIF will show the lines. I salute your willingness to test your site with all the different browsers, but installing AOL is way above and beyond the call, in my opinion. Don't do it! AOL software will make changes in IE and other things on your computer that you really don't want to happen. It is just not worth it. And if you already installed it, I think it would be worth considering doing a system Restore to get rid of it. Granted that may seem a bit extreme, but I really hate AOL in case you haven't noticed. Good luck. DavidF > Thank you so much David, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Thanks again, > Debbie David, One does not need to install AOL software to use their browser. I use it - it's one of the few that muck up a web site when the viewer selects 120 dpi fonts. Mike > Debbie, > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>Thanks again, >>Debbie Mike, I wouldn't take the change of downloading anything from AOL...but that is me. DavidF > David, > [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] >>>Thanks again, >>>Debbie The NavBar at the bottom seems to work for me OK in FireFox. FYI > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Thanks for your time, > Debbie
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