Wordart Troubles

[Guest]

I have Wordart images that I have hyperlinked or bookmarked to and for some reason when I reference to a specific target it sends the href wherever it wants to. When I go to code view and try to edit the html there are wicked little tags in there that prohibit me from saving my changes. When I save, everything reverts back to the screwed up links. I've struggled with this problem now for a couple of days and am unwilling to proceed until I've mastered and subdued the little bugger.
the URL is:
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...album/stpix.htm
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...album/ptpix.htm
Both pages are frames pages so you won't see the html regarding the problem there, but you will notice the effect when you hit the top or bottom bookmarks in the photo gallery frames. Now, when you go to the photo gallery page within these frames at
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...m/st/stcont.htm o
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...m/pt/ptcont.htm
you will notice they bookmark perfectly. Frontpage uses VML for the Wordart images and looking at the code view you will notice that there is no reference to a target within the href. When you try to insert a target ref. IE: target="_self" it disappears upon saving. When you view the "stpix" & "ptpix" pages in the Frontpage browser they work fine. The problem reveals itself upon publishing to the server. Go figure! You would think that since wordart is a microsoft tool, it would work smoothly with frontpage. By the way, I was fortunate to have saved a couple copies of these pages the first time I created them. When I started trying to fix the bookmarks, the targets for the HOME and ALBUM links changed, forcing them to open in the same frame. GRRRR! Oh, and I tried editing these in notepad too. They saved fine without reverting back. Upon pasting it back as a frontpage doc. it changed everything back to the screwed-up hrefs even when entering on a new page. Good grief
Thanks so much for your help with this

 

[Jim Buyens]

WordArt is a very troublesome feature, and I don't
recommend using it. If you *really* like the visual
effects:

1. Press Ctrl+PrtSc to capture the FrontPage window.
2. Paste it into your favorite picture editor.
3. Crop out the WordArt picture.
4. Save hte picture as GIF or JPEG.
5. Add the GIF or JPEG picture to your Web site.
6. Add the picture in your Web site to your page.
7 Delete the WordArt picture.

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-----Original Message-----
I have Wordart images that I have hyperlinked or

bookmarked to and for some reason when I reference to a
specific target it sends the href wherever it wants to.
When I go to code view and try to edit the html there are
wicked little tags in there that prohibit me from saving
my changes. When I save, everything reverts back to the
screwed up links. I've struggled with this problem now
for a couple of days and am unwilling to proceed until
I've mastered and subdued the little bugger.

the URL is:
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...album/stpix.htm &
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...album/ptpix.htm .
Both pages are frames pages so you won't see the html

regarding the problem there, but you will notice the
effect when you hit the top or bottom bookmarks in the
photo gallery frames. Now, when you go to the photo
gallery page within these frames at:

http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...m/st/stcont.htm or
http://calvaryacademy-snowberryspri...m/pt/ptcont.htm
you will notice they bookmark perfectly. Frontpage uses

VML for the Wordart images and looking at the code view
you will notice that there is no reference to a target
within the href. When you try to insert a target ref. IE:
target="_self" it disappears upon saving. When you view
the "stpix" & "ptpix" pages in the Frontpage browser they
work fine. The problem reveals itself upon publishing to
the server. Go figure! You would think that since wordart
is a microsoft tool, it would work smoothly with
frontpage. By the way, I was fortunate to have saved a
couple copies of these pages the first time I created
them. When I started trying to fix the bookmarks, the
targets for the HOME and ALBUM links changed, forcing them
to open in the same frame. GRRRR! Oh, and I tried editing
these in notepad too. They saved fine without reverting
back. Upon pasting it back as a frontpage doc. it changed
everything back to the screwed-up hrefs even when entering
on a new page. Good grief!

 

[E. T. Culling]

The first two HTML links don't go anywhere. What are those ... in the file
name? They shouldn't be there.
Are your Word Art images gifs?
What ever it is that you are trying to accomplish seems rather complicated
to me. Frames and Photo Galleries ... hmmm. Can you explain simply/clearly
what you want to accomplish since I can't see those pages?
Eleanor

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jim, I haven't tried it yet., but it looks like it should work. Frontpage obviously doesn't link well with Wordart images, however they are a convenient way of adding simple graphics. I figured I needed to covert them into GIFs, I just wasn't sure how, so I'll have to give it a try. Thanks
DW

 

[E. T. Culling]

You might try doing a screen capture of the WordArt images and save them as
(optimized) gifs.
Eleanor