Website created with MS Publisher

my2006 · 07-11-2009, 03:29 AM

Hi I created my website with MS Publisher 2003 and since IE8 the menus don't work any more. So I did some googling and found the solutions for it, the menues need to be ungrouped. As I have MS Publisher 2007 I thought I will greate a new website which I did and it works, there where a couple things that needed fixing up. So I opened the publisher file but all the other pages are no longer linked the the Home page, they are in the Home_files folder. When lauching the website of my PC in IE8 it all works, but when I want the edit somthing no Publisher is treating the home page or any other pages as a Single page website. How can I retify this?

Cheers
Albert

**DJ-Zep** · 07-13-2009, 04:35 PM

Make sure all of your files are in the same directory/folder. From the way it sounds, it seems as though your homepage is in a different directory than the rest of your website (perhaps the directory of the old website?).

my2006 · 07-14-2009, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ-Zep

Make sure all of your files are in the same directory/folder. From the way it sounds, it seems as though your homepage is in a different directory than the rest of your website (perhaps the directory of the old website?).

Thanks for the reply. It definely not in the directory of the old website. When creating the website on my computer, let say an 6 page website I save it as default.htm, publisher then creates a folder default_files which then has all the supporting pages and images in it. So the default.htm is in the root folder. I then save the website, tested local and then up load it to net, everthing works. Next time I open the default.htm it has lost the link to the other pages, even all the support pages are in the default_files folder. It is like you created a multipage word document and next time you open only page 1 is there. I never had this problem in Publisher 2003.
I now made a work around and created each page as a seperate website.

Cheers
Albert

**DJ-Zep** · 07-14-2009, 09:40 AM

Sometimes when this happens, you may have to manually edit the links and make them hotlinks to the page until you can find the solution.

For example, if your website is

Code:

http://thiswebsite.com

and the homepage is

Code:

http://thiswebsite.com/default.htm

then you might have to make your links

Code:

<a href="http://thiswebsite.com/aboutus.html">About Us</a>

rather than

Code:

<a href="aboutus.html">About Us</a>

07-11-2009, 03:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
my2006 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Website created with MS Publisher Hi I created my website with MS Publisher 2003 and since IE8 the menus don't work any more. So I did some googling and found the solutions for it, the menues need to be ungrouped. As I have MS Publisher 2007 I thought I will greate a new website which I did and it works, there where a couple things that needed fixing up. So I opened the publisher file but all the other pages are no longer linked the the Home page, they are in the Home_files folder. When lauching the website of my PC in IE8 it all works, but when I want the edit somthing no Publisher is treating the home page or any other pages as a Single page website. How can I retify this? Cheers Albert

07-13-2009, 04:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
DJ-Zep Design Team Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 1,541 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (x64) My System	Re: Website created with MS Publisher Make sure all of your files are in the same directory/folder. From the way it sounds, it seems as though your homepage is in a different directory than the rest of your website (perhaps the directory of the old website?). __________________ Nice music blog Nvu \|\| Notepad++ \|\| Apache \|\| PHP \|\| Keep TSF Alive "The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."

07-14-2009, 09:40 AM	#4 (permalink)
DJ-Zep Design Team Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 1,541 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (x64) My System	Re: Website created with MS Publisher Sometimes when this happens, you may have to manually edit the links and make them hotlinks to the page until you can find the solution. For example, if your website is Code: http://thiswebsite.com and the homepage is Code: http://thiswebsite.com/default.htm then you might have to make your links Code: <a href="http://thiswebsite.com/aboutus.html">About Us</a> rather than Code: <a href="aboutus.html">About Us</a> __________________ Nice music blog Nvu \|\| Notepad++ \|\| Apache \|\| PHP \|\| Keep TSF Alive "The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."