[thelist] Posting Word Documents Vs. Creating Web Pages (Intranet)

Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu
Tue Oct 8 08:59:06 CDT 2002


I would post them as Word docs.  Why go through the hassles of everything
else?  Does anyone actually care if they're webpages or not?  Furthermore
you could post them as PDFs if they're not really meant to be edited
further.

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> Hi all -
>
> I manage an Intranet and for a while have been thinking about the
> following
> question.   I am often provided Word or Excel documents and asked to post
> them to the Intranet.  Since we are in a managed environment there are no
> issues of access - everyone has common operating environment
> (COE).  So the
> question is should I post the documents as Word documents or
> convert them to
> web pages.
>
> The benefit that I find of converting them is that they load
> faster and look
> more webby.  The downside is that I have to convert them and reformat them
> which takes time as well as the fact that I have to manage changes to the
> documents whenever they are desired.
>
> So what do others tend to do?
>
> Thanks -
> Josh




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