layout/formatting for a certain screen resolution

[Chuck Chopp]

What is the recommended way in FP2002 to do your design/layout so that the
web site fits a certain minimum screen resolution on the computer on which
the web browser is being run?

I'm looking making a web site that looks "proper" at 800x600 screen
resolution. However, the system on which I run FP2002 runs as 1900x1200
resolution. The web site uses frames in a 4 panel arrangement, with a
header & footer that run all the way across the page and then sandwiched in
between are the contents and main panels. I have gone into each frame and
set the height & width to be exact pixel measurements, and everything looks
OK w/respect to how the layout appears inside of FP2002. However, when I
save the pages and publish them and then view them on a computer that runs
IE maximized on a desktop that is 800x600, the layout is all wrong and text,
table cells, etc... don't format properly.

I'm getting frustrated because I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or
of IE is just butchering the presentation of the pages on the client side.


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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Tables, centered, maximum of 750 pixels, and avoid using frames and absolute positioning.

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[Chuck Chopp]

Tables, centered, maximum of 750 pixels, and avoid using frames and absolute positioning.

If I eliminate frames entirely, what do I implement to replace them
w/respect to the common content, such as the header, footer and contents
frames? Is that done through some sort of server-side include mechanism, or
through what is called "shared borders" in FP?

Also, if the content of a cell is larger than the cell, is there a way to
cause scroll bars to appear for that cell's contents?

Is there a sample site for which I can vew the source to get an
understanding of how the source looks vs. how the site is rendered in my
browser? That would help me out a lot in understanding how things are
supposed to work when frames are not used.


TIA,

Chuck
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

#1 Use the FP Include Page Component.

#2 You can use the IFrame.

You can view my portfolio of projects:

http://www.ycoln-design.com

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[Chuck Chopp]

#1 Use the FP Include Page Component.

#2 You can use the IFrame.

By using the term "IFrame", you are referring to the "Inline Frame" item on
the "Insert" menu, correct?

You can view my portfolio of projects:

http://www.ycoln-design.com

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.


Chuck
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Yes.

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[Chuck Chopp]

Yes.

OK, I've started playing with them... the inline frames look promising. I'm
seeing a relatively large gap between the frames themselves, though, and I
don't see any properties that I can set to make them have the same sort of
layout that one would get with a traditional frames page.

Would putting the inline frames inside cells in a table be the appropriate
way to force them to line up properly and have the same appearance as the
frames page that I'm trying to eliminate?


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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Yes, insert the IFrames into table/columns would help.

However, if you are concerned with search engine indexing, you need to try and avoid using any
frames altogether.

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