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I created a web site with Publisher. My site has numerous photos. I'm having difficulty because once created the site doesn't load like it should nad it doesn't "treat" each photo like a photo. It "treats" it as if it is part of the background. It shows that is is embedded. This makes the page load very slow. It looks as if it is done loading when no pictures are visible, then slowly the pictures start to appear. Does anyone have any suggestions Thanks Lis You don't state the version. Each version is different with web design. If you are using 2003 the first thing you can do is to not use original images as Pub 2003 will retain the size and resolution of them. Instead you need you use a photo editor first to save the images in a smaller size and resolution (96dpi). Then use those smaller images in the Pub 2003 page. Also use photos sparingly. You can add more pages and spread photos out rather then dump several on a page.  SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > I created a web site with Publisher. My site has numerous photos. I'm having difficulty because once created the site doesn't load like it should nad it doesn't "treat" each photo like a photo. It "treats" it as if it is part of the background. It shows that is is embedded. This makes the page load very slow. It looks as if it is done loading when no pictures are visible, then slowly the pictures start to appear. Does anyone have any suggestions? > Thanks, > Lisa What if the page is a gallery page? Any image should be sized and reduced to 96 dpi before being inserted into any Publisher page in version 2003 for best results. -- David Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > What if the page is a gallery page? Hi David, It is publisher 2003. The problem seems to be that Publisher 2003 embeds each photo into the background. Is there some way, other than making the photo a link, to stop Publisher from embedding the photo into the background. I'm a photographer, and this web site is for my business, so I need quite a few photos on each page. My home page only has four photos of very small size and it still takes forever to load becuase of the embedding issue. www.lisagunnoe.com Thanks, Lisa > You don't state the version. > Each version is different with web design. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thanks, > > Lisa Publisher embeds the images IF you layer the image with other objects. This is covered on the FAQ - www.davidbartosik.com/faq.htm A quick look at your page and I see you applied a border/shadow to each image BAM that would do it. If you want the image to be edited in such a way without embedding you'd have to design the image that way in a photo editor and insert it into pub already done that way. You also have the filled text boxes as a background area behind the image collection, that could also be a factor. I'd suggest pulling off the border work on one of the images and test it to see if it still embeds the image, if so then remove the background fills and test again. Note that if you were using a web design program such as FrontPage, you would have to create that whole thing in a graphic editor and then splice it. In other words Publisher saves you some time but has limitations. You can manually "link" images - see http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub2002/pub2002_26.htm - but you wouldn't be able to layer them with the background designs. Publisher is working as it's intended, as it needs to, to produce your design. I very nice design, good job, btw. If you design the images solo on a plain background you'll get a faster load time. Welcome to web design. You have to deal with finding a balance (or not) between load time and the design you want. You might look over the articles at www.davidbartosik.com/web.htm - some of them may be helpful. SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > Hi David, > It is publisher 2003. The problem seems to be that Publisher 2003 embeds each photo into the background. Is there some way, other than making the photo a link, to stop Publisher from embedding the photo into the background. I'm a photographer, and this web site is for my business, so I need quite a few photos on each page. My home page only has four photos of very small size and it still takes forever to load becuase of the embedding issue. www.lisagunnoe.com > Thanks, > Lisa [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > Thanks, > > > Lisa Honestly, for a commercial site, the best advice is to forget about Publisher. Go with Dreamweaver and avoid the problems with Publisher and FrontPage altogether. Now ducking in anticipation of MVP wrath... >Publisher embeds the images IF you layer the image with other objects. This >is covered on the FAQ - www.davidbartosik.com/faq.htm [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >You might look over the articles at www.davidbartosik.com/web.htm - some of >them may be helpful. No wrath on my part. You are entitled to your opinion as I am entitled to mine.I'd recommend FrontPage but I prefer M$'s products and have for years, long before I ever heard of MVPs. (I used your abbreviation to make you smile.) SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Honestly, for a commercial site, the best advice is to forget about Publisher. > Go with Dreamweaver and avoid the problems with Publisher and FrontPage [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >You might look over the articles at www.davidbartosik.com/web.htm - some of > >them may be helpful. Indeed, you did make me smile! Thank you. I use many M$ products, but they just never seem to be ready for prime time. Of course that is not unique to M$; much of the software out here is as buggy or worse than M$ products. >No wrath on my part. You are entitled to your opinion as I am entitled to >mine.I'd recommend FrontPage but I prefer M$'s products and have for years, >long before I ever heard of MVPs. (I used your abbreviation to make you >smile.) Hi David, Thank you much. I will work on it and see if I can get Publisher to do what I need it to do. I really don't want to get another program. As you can tell, I don't need fancy this or that for my web site. I'm after simple elegance. I like Publisher because I can do most anything I want with it. Sure hope I can work this out. Thanks again for your help... I will check it out this weekend and keep you posted. Lisa > Publisher embeds the images IF you layer the image with other objects. This > is covered on the FAQ - www.davidbartosik.com/faq.htm [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > You might look over the articles at www.davidbartosik.com/web.htm - some of > them may be helpful. |
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