word files onto site

[jazs]

my client has sent me word files to update the site with as the current content was temporary and i input it manually page by page. The word docs he sent me contained lots of different styles and pictures that would be a hasle to put onto the site. now i know there are ways to put content up onto the site but im not sure if the way i know would be the easiest.. does anyone know of a good way? the site is deephealingseries.com
thanks

[Charles]

The best way would be to teach your client HTML but that never works. You could try to get him to adopt a style guide but that's not going to work either. The only way is going to be to slog through by hand--but you don't want to just copy the client's different styles if they're not being used coherantly.

Another option might be to get the client to use Amaya.

As a last option save each file as HTML and then use HTML TIdy to clean them up and then finish them off by hand.

[jazs]

client is unable to do content himself.. there is no way i can get the docs onto the site as content? i tried saving the docs as html files and using php include as i have with my header and footers..

[skilled1]

your only option may be that you save them as html, and run though them in say dreamweaver and clean them up.

what you have to remember is although it is NOT fun (as i have had to do many things like this for clients) you charge by the hour :D

[jazs]

yeah i'm going to have the client run it through an html editor hopefully.. if not i guess i'll have to do it myself.. i don't charge by the hour unfortunately :-/

there HAS to be a way though :-/

[ripken204]

believe me there is no simple way, saving as html and making sure it looks ok in dreamweaver is what you will have to do, it's what im doing.

something else that i just started doing was sending the .doc to myself in gmail and viewing it as html, that works out even better. but if there are pictures in the file you will have to change the links to them to make it work.

[jazs]

ill try emailing them to myself... it sucks there are ALOT of little pictures... :-/

[ripken204]

ya the issue is that gmail will try to make the pictures to a gmail link and it also decides to make the height and width 1px..

so you will need to fix those things, but the text itself should like very close to being correct

[Charles]

Use Dreamweaver to clean them up? You would do better to take a photograph of the document and post that. If you have to save the word doc as HTML then use HTML Tidy to clean it up. It has a special "Oh no, not MS Word" mode. And you can have Tidy just output the BODY so you can include it in your template.

[jazs]

ok that sounds alot better... thank you very much

[jazs]

i cant find the download for HTML tidy... can you send me a link? thanks

[Charles]

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

[jazs]

the download for that is just a command prompt.. its not an actual program that i can upload a word doc into and it will spit out a html file ready to go? thanks

[Charles]

Tidy defaults to reading the STDIN stream which means that if you don't pipe to it a file it sits there waiting for you to type on in. Cntrl-Z indicates the end of the stream and will cause Tidy to do its thing. Or you can specify a filename. Try tidy -help for more details.

[jazs]

ok i tried the "oh **** word mode" and it didnt come out with the results that i wanted.. i'll just have to edit manually... fml