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garzarus5873
10-20-2003, 03:25 PM
Howdy all.

I've been assigned the glorious task of publishing a Word document as an Web Site unto itself. Its a fairly lengthy document and i am not sure how to approach this problem.
I do have limited HTML experience; but here lies the problem:
The document will be continually updated; so, a static site seems to be out of the question.

Here's an idea of what i've been asked to come up with:
1) a constant navigation bar listing chapters and subchapter with links to each.
2) the text field of the page should change when the (sub)chapter is selected from the navigation menu.


So, can anyone please help me with any info as to how to approach this? As i understand it, there seems to be a way to populate a web page from a database. Would you figure this is the reoute i should look into or is it not worth the trouble.
If it is worth the trouble, please provide me some guidance as to where i can read up on beginer level stuff. (i have found some documentation on this already but its way over my skill set right now - i'll get there eventually.)

(side question: what constitues a "printer friendly" page?)

THANX in advance for any help you can give!

EDIT: i just noticed the Wed Dev. forum and will be buried in it for the next few days. But i do still hope you'll sahre your ideas with me.

carbonize
10-20-2003, 04:29 PM
You say you are using Word so why not just export the page as a web page?

garzarus5873
10-20-2003, 05:17 PM
Exporting the .doc as HTML delivers one long HTML page.
That isn't what's desired.

Each subchapter should have its own page which can be hit from the nav bar.

I'm really considering holding the whole thing in Access. That way, i'll just have to edit it in one place - allowing the sub-chapter pages and the one large "printer friendly" page to display the same updated info.
(Now, if i can only figure out how to do it.....)