Adding in a background color/pattern afterwards....

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Hi All,

I created my website, which has many pages. (The new version is not posted
yet.) Anyways, I want to be able to change one location/file and have all
the webpages set the background color/pattern to the color/pattern
indicated. My current thought is a CSS, but I'm not that familiar with style
sheets and am not sure hot to implement it, if even that is what I want. I
do NOT want to set the font or other attributes. I just merely want
something to universally set the background color/pattern on the pages. My
other thought is a theme, but that seems more that I can apply a theme (not
create them) and that sets everything, not just the background
color/pattern. I'm using MS FrontPage 2002.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

--
Martin A. Weinberger
ButterflyVista
http://www.butterflyvista.com/
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And you will need to remove any html tags already on the page the will now
be controlled by CSS.

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"Peter Taurins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Create an external style sheet.
>
> Call it (for example) style.css
>
> In this file add the following:
> body {background-color: #000066}
>
> In the <head> section of you pages add the following:
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
>
> This will now automatically set the background of each page you have added
> the stylesheet link to, to a dark blue.
> Change the #000066 to the color you desire.
>
> Unfortunately you will need to add the <link rel="stylesheet"
> type="text/css" href="style.css"> to EVERY page, but from then, you only
> have to change the color in the style sheet and it will be automagically
> replicated everywhere.
>
> HTH.
> PWT.
>
>
> "martin weinberger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ib94b.20432$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I created my website, which has many pages. (The new version is not
posted
> > yet.) Anyways, I want to be able to change one location/file and have
all
> > the webpages set the background color/pattern to the color/pattern
> > indicated. My current thought is a CSS, but I'm not that familiar with
> style
> > sheets and am not sure hot to implement it, if even that is what I want.
I
> > do NOT want to set the font or other attributes. I just merely want
> > something to universally set the background color/pattern on the pages.
My
> > other thought is a theme, but that seems more that I can apply a theme
> (not
> > create them) and that sets everything, not just the background
> > color/pattern. I'm using MS FrontPage 2002.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> > --
> > Martin A. Weinberger
> > ButterflyVista
> > http://www.butterflyvista.com/
> > (when responding to me by email, remove the "X_" from the beginning)
> >
> >
>
>

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Hi Peter and Thomas,

I followed the directions and no luck. I went a step further and found the
code that is giving me (from your point) the lylac (purplish) background
color. The line is:

<body bgcolor="#CCCCFF" link="#000066" vlink="#000066" alink="#000066">

If I take that out, then I see the background color that I set Windows too,
which in my case is green. I added the link line as the first line in the
header in the index page. As stated, I removed the line above. I have the
complete contents of the 'style.css' file as:

{background-color: #000066}

I look at the webpage and nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to
tell MS FrontPage 2002 to do something?

--
Martin A. Weinberger
ButterflyVista
http://www.butterflyvista.com/
(when responding to me by email, remove the "X_" from the beginning)

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Yes in your pages remove bgcolor="#CCCCFF" from the BODY tags

Does style.css contain

body {background-color: #000066;}

- not just {background-color: #000066}

And did you refresh your page after saving it in FP before previewing

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"martin weinberger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:Age4b.20504$(E-Mail Removed)...
| Hi Peter and Thomas,
|
| I followed the directions and no luck. I went a step further and found the
| code that is giving me (from your point) the lylac (purplish) background
| color. The line is:
|
| <body bgcolor="#CCCCFF" link="#000066" vlink="#000066" alink="#000066">
|
| If I take that out, then I see the background color that I set Windows too,
| which in my case is green. I added the link line as the first line in the
| header in the index page. As stated, I removed the line above. I have the
| complete contents of the 'style.css' file as:
|
| {background-color: #000066}
|
| I look at the webpage and nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to
| tell MS FrontPage 2002 to do something?
|
|
| --
| Martin A. Weinberger
| ButterflyVista
| http://www.butterflyvista.com/
| (when responding to me by email, remove the "X_" from the beginning)
|
|
|

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It was missing the ";". I'll give it a try. I found an even easier way with
FrontPage. FrontPage has the option to use the background information of
another page. I just have to select the index file in my case. I stumbled
onto it last night. :-). I'm still curious about why the style sheet didn't
work, so I'll report the results. From what you say, I suspect that I was
missing the semicolon.

Thanks!

--
Martin A. Weinberger
ButterflyVista
http://www.butterflyvista.com/
(when responding to me by email, remove the "X_" from the beginning)

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Martin.

You need the full line in your CSS file.

body {background-color: #000066;}

Including the word body.

Peter.

"martin weinberger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6Nr4b.20612$(E-Mail Removed)...
> It was missing the ";". I'll give it a try. I found an even easier way
with
> FrontPage. FrontPage has the option to use the background information of
> another page. I just have to select the index file in my case. I stumbled
> onto it last night. :-). I'm still curious about why the style sheet
didn't
> work, so I'll report the results. From what you say, I suspect that I was
> missing the semicolon.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Martin A. Weinberger
> ButterflyVista
> http://www.butterflyvista.com/
> (when responding to me by email, remove the "X_" from the beginning)
>
>

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I am a software instructor... FrontPage is one of my software packages.

I could have answered your question and shown you an easy way of doing it in versions up to 2003... but they have me stumped. We used to have an option in the Background area of Properties - "Get background information from another page", under the Background tab.

It is a major part of my Level 1 course... I am now upgrading the manuals for the new version and am totally lost with this. WHERE DID IT GO? It is one of the important features of this great program and as far as I can tell it has been removed.

I have looked through all the menus and unless I am being totally blind... it is gone. Can someone help me with this? I am under the crunch here... a new contract came up and they are buying the new version... the manuals have to be at the printers in a week and I'm stuck on what used to be a very basic thing...

help!!! [grin]

Judi

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I believe that feature has been replaced by the Dynamic Web Templates
function

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==============================================
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http://www.ycoln-resources.com
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==============================================
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"Judi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E4B1C90F-9266-4A4A-8107-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am a software instructor... FrontPage is one of my software packages.
>
> I could have answered your question and shown you an easy way of doing it
in versions up to 2003... but they have me stumped. We used to have an
option in the Background area of Properties - "Get background information
from another page", under the Background tab.
>
> It is a major part of my Level 1 course... I am now upgrading the manuals
for the new version and am totally lost with this. WHERE DID IT GO? It is
one of the important features of this great program and as far as I can tell
it has been removed.
>
> I have looked through all the menus and unless I am being totally blind...
it is gone. Can someone help me with this? I am under the crunch here... a
new contract came up and they are buying the new version... the manuals have
to be at the printers in a week and I'm stuck on what used to be a very
basic thing...
>
> help!!! [grin]
>
> Judi

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Background image: Go to Format>Background, that brings up Page Properties>
Formatting, then Background> background picture>and finally Browse
doesn't seem totally logical does it?
Eleanor

"Judi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E4B1C90F-9266-4A4A-8107-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am a software instructor... FrontPage is one of my software packages.
>
> I could have answered your question and shown you an easy way of doing it
in versions up to 2003... but they have me stumped. We used to have an
option in the Background area of Properties - "Get background information
from another page", under the Background tab.
>
> It is a major part of my Level 1 course... I am now upgrading the manuals
for the new version and am totally lost with this. WHERE DID IT GO? It is
one of the important features of this great program and as far as I can tell
it has been removed.
>
> I have looked through all the menus and unless I am being totally blind...
it is gone. Can someone help me with this? I am under the crunch here... a
new contract came up and they are buying the new version... the manuals have
to be at the printers in a week and I'm stuck on what used to be a very
basic thing...
>
> help!!! [grin]
>
> Judi

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And use of external style sheets

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"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
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"Thomas A. Rowe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
| I believe that feature has been replaced by the Dynamic Web Templates
| function
|
| --
|
| ==============================================
| Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| http://www.ycoln-resources.com
| FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
| MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| ==============================================
| To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
|
| "Judi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
| news:E4B1C90F-9266-4A4A-8107-(E-Mail Removed)...
| > I am a software instructor... FrontPage is one of my software packages.
| >
| > I could have answered your question and shown you an easy way of doing it
| in versions up to 2003... but they have me stumped. We used to have an
| option in the Background area of Properties - "Get background information
| from another page", under the Background tab.
| >
| > It is a major part of my Level 1 course... I am now upgrading the manuals
| for the new version and am totally lost with this. WHERE DID IT GO? It is
| one of the important features of this great program and as far as I can tell
| it has been removed.
| >
| > I have looked through all the menus and unless I am being totally blind...
| it is gone. Can someone help me with this? I am under the crunch here... a
| new contract came up and they are buying the new version... the manuals have
| to be at the printers in a week and I'm stuck on what used to be a very
| basic thing...
| >
| > help!!! [grin]
| >
| > Judi
|
|

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