Using Microsoft Publisher2003 to build websites is “good”. I’ve been using it ever since I misplaced my copy of Front Office. Tonight, I had the interesting experience of rebuilding a site.

(Don’t ask. A previously built sight apparently “went bad” when the service provider mucked up some required files.)

SO, I rebuilt it. But not until I had to recreate 9 pages virtually from scratch. It was entertaining. (More entertaining than watching the Yankees choke.)

I have the site mostly all rebuilt, I shipped it up to the website. Filezilla objected that two of the site’s files were “in use”. So I exited out of publisher to free them up. All well and good.

I looked at the refurbished site and saw a couple of minor glitches. No big deal. Trivial to fix.

I fire up publisher and I can’t get the site back in publisher format. I can see each of the ten or so pages individually, but I can get the site-wide view needed to fix them.

Arghhh.

Now I have to either redo them again or figure it out.

At least I have a working site. Wonder if anyone will notice the mistakes.

I blame what happened on publisher.