Been using Quark for years for print — now am trying my luck at designing my first webpage using this software, solely because my mind is not wired for code and this is the only design software I know reasonably well. I have built style sheets for my cascading menus (using Bliss 2 Heavy) but every time I convert to html files the font defaults back to Times New Roman. Blech! Doesn’t match the design at all.

Also, even though I have given the shape of the menu boxes rounded corners, once I export to html the corners become squared again…

I would love your advice on how to fix these two big issues — in ‘dummy speak’ please…bearing in mind that I am not at all familiar with code…

Many, many thanks!
Crystal (from Vancouver Island, Canada)

Your comments appear to apply to a primarily text document, so it may not work for me. Can you offer any advice? Thank you.

Good question and there’s probably not an easy answer that’s not going to require some work on your part.

The hack above is good for a long text document, but for a magazine, I expect it wouldn’t take any longer to copy the text and apply the relevant CSS styles in the content management system.

What will take longer is getting the images out of the Quark layout and into the CMS. What I think I’d do would be to copy your QuarkXPress file, then go to Layout>Layout Properties and change the Layout Type from Print to Web. You can then use File>Export>HTML to make webpages from it.

The HTML it produces won’t be much use for your CMS, but this action will downsample all the images in your layout to web resolution. You’ll then have to upload the relevant images to your CMS and place them appropriately in the document. Of course, you’ve far fewer options for formatting as you have in Quark.

Your comments appear to apply to a primarily text document, so it may not work for me. Can you offer any advice? Thank you.