Aderet White wrote:
I have windows xp but I haven't been able to publish web pages to my
website because I had Frontpage 2000 and I was told I needed at least
Frontpage 2003. It cost a fortune to upgrade my frontpage so as I
surfed the internet for other options I found openoffice. I didn't see
anything comparable to Frontpage in it, so I wrote and asked if
something like Frontpage was in the OpenOffice package. I was told it
was included in Writer. So I bought it but still can't find a way to
upload my webpages to my website in writer.
So in answer to your question as to how I normally publish my webpages
to my website, I send them to someone else who does it for me. I'm so
hoping you can tell me I can do it myself :)
First, OpenOffice.org is free (as in free source and no cost when
downloaded) so you should not have had to buy it, unless don't normally
have access to the web and so had to obtain a CD with OpenOffice.org on
it. But since you "searched the internet", that does not seem to be the
case. You can download the newest version of OpenOffice.org at
http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html
You don't need Frontpage to publish ANY web pages, unless the person you
use to publish your pages is too ignorant to use anything else. All you
need are files in some form of HTML which you place on a web server with
a URL. It is that simple. There are a number of companies offering free
web space such a Geocities and Google Page Creator along with many others.
While you can use the HTML facilities in OpenOffice.org (or the HTML
facilities in MS Word for that matter) the HTML used in either is not
very good. OpenOffice.org HTML is only a subset of HTML-3 with no
cascading style-sheets while MS Windows HTML is loaded with bulky
comments intended to allow everything to retained when loaded back into
Word, but these comments are useless for web publishing.
However if you do want to use OpenOffice.org as an HTML editor, then
open OpenOffice.org Writer and select File -> New -> HTML document. You
can create your web in here just as you would a word processing document
and save it in ".HTML" format. Use the View menu to turn HTML Source
view on or off and edit in either mode. That HTML file should be
suitable for web publishing if you are not at all fussing about recent
advances in HTML, XHTML, and XML>
But as already mentioned, you can also use NVU (at
http://www.nvu.com/index.php ) to produce web pages instead. NVU is a
dedicated web page editor and producer and so, in my opinion, better
than OpenOffice.org for this.
If you are using Windows, a more powerful free (as in no-cost) HTML/XML
editor is Microsoft Visual Web Developer at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa974185.aspx and
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700797.aspx I've used this to
develop a professional corporate website.
Another excellent free (as in no cost) product is Matrix Y2K Website
Studio at http://www.crystalfibers.com/index.php?topicid=146 I haven't
used much at all much as I'd already gotten used to NVU and Miscrosoft
Visual Web Developer but it seems to be very good.
Don't let anyone talk you into buying any Website creation product
unless you know that product has a feature you really need. There's
sufficient free material on the web for most web page creation. Why does
someone claim you now NEED FrontPage 2003?
The only thing probably worth buying is a good book on HTML for reference.
Jallan
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