Web pages from Microsoft Word

[Nick Minall]

How big are the pic files? is dial up just to slow to load the pics?

[David Rogers]

If designing for dial up – try to keep the image size at under 50k each – much more than that and it’ll grind to a halt.

I’m guessing you don’t have MS ‘Frontpage’ or Photoshop ("save for web" function). Also – work in jpg or as a last resort gif for faster loading & maximum compatability.

…not much help I fear!!

Dave

[Phill Fenton]

Thanks for your replies

The files are no bigger than 50k – some are much less?

[Rod Young]

quote Phill:

I have recently been using Microsoft Word to generate some new website pages. When I save a word file as a web page it creates a folder where it stores two copies of each picture file included on the web page.

After loading the new pages (and the folders complete with pictures) to the server I am only seeing the pictures when I view the site using a broadband connection. When I access the site using a dial up connection the pictures do not show up.

Any ideas why?

• Open a NotePad window, then drag-and-drop the html file into NotePad.
• Inspect the file path for the image. That will probably be the issue.
• Not sure if using Word is best for creating web site pages.
• Might suggest investing in Adobe product called Dreamweaver (formerly by Macromedia).

Cheers,

Rod

[David Rowland]

well word uses XML a fair bit so its not pure HTML, so nothing wrong with that just limited in how you design it.

[Garrie]

If you really really stuck..

If you wanna send me the the image files and word docs and i’ll recreate the pages using Dreamweaver and send the HTM files and folders/images files back all ready for you just to upload them!

Why are you using Word anyways, its not web design software, its even worse than Frontpage, at the end of the day, your website is your online persona, why compromise it by using a product not really designed to build a webpage, let alone a full site.

Cheers
Garrie

[Phill Fenton]

Thanks for all the advice.

I’ve checked the source code and it is pointing at the correct folder where the images are saved.

I’m using word simply because these are very simple basic pages I want to display – but word seems to "bloat" the html coding with all sorts of info that I don’t really understand.

Thanks for the offer Garrie – very kind of you to offer to create these pages for me. I suspect "word" is creating two versions of the images I wish to display. One being a higher resolution for use in broadband – the other a lower resolution for diract dial up (there are two versions of the pictures in the file image file folders that word automatically creates – one is bigger than the other even though both are jpg).

From what I’ve heard recently – Word is far from ideal for producing html code. Guess I’ll have to find a better way to generate simple web pages 😀

[Garrie]

Hi Phill,

Is word really that clever? I suspect it isn’t, but you never know.

Just a thought, is it not auto creating a thumbnail?

Maybe download a trial version of DreamWeaver and see how you get on.

Cheers
Garrie

[Alan Drury]

For a good web editor for not alot of money look at http://www.namo.com also available from Amozon and the like. 2006 is the latest version but 5.5 will do most things.
Alan D

[Phill Fenton]

Hi Garrie – your probably right, one of the files could be a thumbnail image. I still don’t understand why only broadband shows the pictures when dial up doesn’t though (hence my reasoning that word was perhaps saving webpages that suited either format).

Thanks for the suggestion Alan – I’ll have look at that site 😀

[James Martin]

Phill

I have no idea about the different connection issues.

I just see the web through my broadband.

But I think the best way to make simple web pages is to learn a bit of HTML.
Its not hard.
I learned a bit and put my own pages up.

Good place to start is http://www.w3schools.com/
or just type html into google.

I think you save time in the long run not becoming a slave to another interface.

Jimmy

[Phill Fenton]

Thanks James – I looked at the site, very informative.

Meanwhile I have solved my problem when I discovered "word" has an option to save as a web page (filtered). The filtered page does away with all the extra coding and produces a much more simplified web page which looks identical anyway but works properly now.

Don’t know what all the additional coding was for though? (and I can just about decipher the coding of the filtered web page in notepad to see what it’s actually doing).

Thanks for all the advice 😀

[Garrie]

glad you sorted it Bud 😀