Sent by Russell Baldwin on 12 December 2003 07:07
First you are going to have to strip the MS HTML stuff that Word puts in.
You could use the MS Office HTML tool or Tidy I guess. IF the documents have
common a format, a big if, than I suggest you create am (X)HTML template
page with attached style sheets and then add the page contents to that
altering each page as appropriate. A fixed 'include' or php/asp menu would
help in this respect. Another possibility is to extract the pages into a
database and display them using code.
If the format isn't common, or does not have consistent mark-up (H1/H2 etc),
then it's quite a bit of reformatting for you, several tools can help with
this however, Tidy, TopStyle etc.
Having done this recently, it's quite a lot of work. I was expecting legal
documents (based on Word templates) to have a common format, a logical
structure and for the client to have an idea about how to structure the body
of work...the answer was of course not. Deciding a logical structure for
yourself, maybe time consuming, but can be done, the problem is in that what
makes sense to you, may not make sense to a lawyer or indeed their clients.
Now this is of course getting a bit off topic, so back to CSS...Then you
have to design the pages using CSS... :)
Hope this helps, good luck,
Russ
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Sent: 12 December 2003 01:06
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Subject: [css-d] MSword to HTML for CSS/estim cost/200 pages of documents
I am making an estimate for adding 200 pages of documents
to a website using CSS.
The documents are 1-15 pages each delivered to me in a single 200 page doc.
All is average simple legal document style layout in MSword with bullets, 3
fonts, titles, tabs... nothing advanced or complex in MSword.
I want to charge per page instead of hourly
to be fair to myself and the client.
I am not sure of the optimum method for converting
a large quantity of word document pages to html ( CSS ready ) is
which should effect the rate I charge.
The actual CSS work is a separate job and bill but I need
the HTML ready to be styled.
I could use some suggestions as to the best way to convert
from word to html.
I want a strong basic HTML document structure best for CSS.
The presentation style after CSS styling will similar to legal documents.
Has anyone has heard of per page rates for this kind of website building?
don spark
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