Displaying HTML docs created in Word.

[calista]

I composed a document (with lots of drawings) in Word, saved it as a web page, and put it up on my intranet. It looks great when I pull it up on my machine, but if someone else brings it up on their machine and their browser window is sized differently than mine, then everything looks off kilter. Images overlap text, etc. What can I do to make sure this document looks good regardless of how the user sizes his browser? Thanks for any and all suggestions! Calista :-X
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[WebGodiva]

Word formats the documents as tables. You will need to access the HTML code and set the tables to % width instead of pixels.

 

[tsdragon]

Q: "What can I do to make sure this document looks good regardless of how the user sizes his browser"?

A: Don't use Word to create the page! Every time I've had to use a Word-formatted document as a web page I've ended up stripping out ALL HTML (and XML!) and redoing the HTML (and CSS) myself! This is the only way I've found to get the page to format the way I want it to look (or even the way it looked in Word!). Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[calista]

WebGodiva, I'll try your suggestion.

tsdragon,

What tool would you suggest for creating HTML documents? The particular document I created is a technical drawing similar to a flow chart. At one point, I pulled all the .gifs out of the Word document and tried use them to reassemble the document in plain HTML. The problem I ran into is that I needed some of the images to overlap, and some needed to be spaced very close together. I couldn't get them to do that in HTML. I should be getting Visio, soon, which is what folks around here use to generate schematics and technical drawings(which I will also be putting on the intranet). Any other suggestions? Thanks both of you for your replies. Calista :-X
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[starfishh]

If your are looking for a HTML editor to create pages in a WYSIWYG fashion then microsoft have Frontpage with a words like interface.

Else i suggesat hand coding in notepad or a dedicated html developer such as Homesite (check out

http://www.allaire.com).

If you want to overlap images using plain html you will need to employ absolute positioning techniques. By enclosing all images in 'divs' the divs can be positioned on the page exactly using the style attribute.

Starfishh just when you're when you've got it all sorted.....

then somebody mentions Netscape!

 

[calista]

Thanks, starfishh! I can probably get a hold of Front Page around here somewhere. Of course, I have Notepad. I also have Cold Fusion Studio and Cold Fusion Server Professional and I love them! I haven't tried the Design mode, but maybe I will, for this. My CSS is not very strong, but maybe I'll see what I can do with it.

P.S. Amen! to your tag line r.e. Netscape! Calista :-X
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[tsdragon]

My boss uses DreamWeaver to create most of his pages. I've had to work on some of them in text mode and the html is pretty clean (although it does use a lot of nested tables). DreamWeaver seems to be the tool of choice for a lot of people. I do most of my HTML coding by hand in EditPlus. It hghlights the different tags, literals, etc. so it's a little easier to see what you're doing, but it's still text mode (which I prefer). Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.