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Thanks to those that helped me with some related stuff before.

I know that the best way to build a website is not by using word, and I plan to move over to using wordpress or something as soon as possible, however in the short term I need to solve one small problem.

I have been using word then saving as web page and at the same time saving as pdf. The pdfs are perfect with nice large detailed pictures, and the webpages fine except that for some reason when word saves the images for the web page it reduces their size to around 200x200. This makes it impossible for a user to see the detail. I have no idea why it does this, nor how to stop it. Any help would be great.

As I said I will changing my approach when I can, but I need a short term fix until I can take the week of work.

For an example see Chapter 6 of www.multipitchclimbing.com

Thanks!

In reply to David Coley:

A simpler solution would be to learn some (really very) basic html, and edit the word produced files uing notepad.

something like http://www.w3schools.com/ would be a help here.

In reply to David Coley:

Select "Web Page", not "Web Page, Filtered". Then use something like http://www.dirtymarkup.com/ to cleanup the html (open the file with notepad, copy, paste it in the website, clean it, paste it back to the notepad, save).

In reply to David Coley:

Hi Dave,

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Word is famously difficult for html...best to avoid when there are so many other & better alternatives

Working in the online industry...I'm (very respectfully) not sure about authoring via Notepad unless you want to learn things from first principle, it's generally not needed these days

BR

Pete

In reply to David Coley:

In the short term without getting involved in Word web settings, you should save the original images files into separate folder at the size you require, making a note of these sizes. Then upload that folder to your website. Then you will need to edit each html file and change each img tag( you can use the search function in notepad to find them easily
. I.E change this:
<img width="201" height="151" border="0" v:shapes="_x0000_i1230" src="6TheBelay_files/image006.gif">

To this:

<img width="450" height="550" border="0" v:shapes="_x0000_i1230" src="NEW_UPLOADED_FOLDER/image006.gif">

You should consider changing the picture format from .gif to jpg while you at it!
Hope this helps,
Rob

In reply to David Coley:

Please don't use Word for this - kittens will die!

On a slightly less frivolous note. Creating a basic template isn't that hard, the hardest bit will be creating links both in the head of the template for styles and in the body for links to other parts of your site. Once you've the template then getting the text over is a matter of copy and paste. I've not used utilities like dirtymarkup so don't know how good they'd be for a number of pages.

In reply to David Coley:

Thanks for everyone's input. I do fully plan to get away from WORD asap. I just wanted a quick fix for the next month or so until I had a bit more time. With maybe 1000 images I won't have time to resave them and change the html for awhile.

Interestingly WORD saves the images as jpg and gif and uses the original resolution for the jpg, but a much reduced one for the gif.

In reply to David Coley:

those poor kittens