Do you always use a spanner when inserting screws. A hammer would work better and a screwdriver would work better still. MS Word is a spanner when it comes to creating web pages. The code it produces is 95% information for converting back to a Microsoft Office format, 4% obsolete HTML and 1% page content.
Take that 1% page content and enclose it in modern HTML and you end up with a web page that is a small fraction of the size and which your visitors will actually see instead of giving up and moving on before it finishes loading (assuming that you also have your images optimized for web use).
Oh, yes! Creating pages offline and uploading is indeed a very superior method compared with Wizard. We are completely in agreement.
Yes, MS Word has a "Save as html" feature, as has some other MS programs intended for other purposes, such as Excel and Publisher. I believe these can sometimes be useful. On intranets, where all the users have had the same software installed, this may possibly be a useful way of sharing documents. Because you all access the same directories in shared files on the intranet.
When trying to create a real website, though, there are several issues that will give you problems. The one most likely to be the problem in your case is that MS Word will invent new directories on it's own without informing you. You will need to edit the code, or create directories to match. Also, the nonstandard code may give you problems. Oddly enough, sometimes those pages will display images in other browsers, but not in Microsoft's own Explorer.
As I haven't spotted missing images on your pages, and you seem to have other pages (travel diary?) not linked to, I cannot be more specific.
Word may not be the worst possible choice of program to create pages offline, but out of hundreds of programs I would probably rate it among the top 5.
If you download that page in 15-20 seconds, you are either loading parts from cached files in Temporary Internet Files on your computer, or you have a connection that gives you between 40 and 50 kilobytes a second.
Today, I download faster than your 15-20 seconds on my computer, but when i had a modem, i would be happy to receive stuff at a tenth of the speed you are reporting. Which means 150-200 seconds on a good day for that page.
Besides, 15-20 seconds is ... well, not ideal. Authorities differ a bit on how long the average visitor will wait for a page to load. Some say 4-6 seconds, some say 10.
The problem, I guess, is that there is no such thing as an average visitor or an average visit, for that matter. But if you think your site is of interest to the general public, you should realize that a lot of visitors will have changed their minds in 15-20 seconds.
1.from the 2 mails i hv recd, i find there is noway i can upload directly my travel diary or notes made on my laptop in msword to a web page .
will appreciate if anyone can offer a soln.
i believe a soln does exist because otherwise microsoft would not have had this feature.
2.the travel diary +fotos (which were found subsequently missing....the situation that brought me to this forum) belong to a different web-page.
but, i thought i can obtain a soln frm here.
3. i shall remember the time for opening the site.when ready, this webpage will have many photographs and therefore this issue will need addressing.
at the same time , it will be for people who would be interested in this subject.