Why does preview in FrontPage2003 not the same as the published p.

[Guest]

I am using FrontPage 2003 to design a page, which has several cells and
tables. In the preview, it looks fine. However, after publishing the page
to the web, the appearance of the page is slightly different. More
specifically the width of some of the cells are wider in some areas on the
page and it is not consistent. Also, borders around some cells show up on
the published page but not in the preview?

 

[Steve Easton]

URL??


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[Guest]

http://www.iciboilermact.com is one page of concern. You see the white
squares on the top and right side that we do not want.

Same thing on this page http://www.focusenv.com/ICI_Boiler_MACT_Definition.htm

 

[Rick Budde]

You would be better off using "Preview in browser"
than "Preview". This will give a better representation of
your site.

Ideally, you should download other browsers and preview
in those as well as each browser will display things a
bit differently.

You also want to look at how the pages display at various
screen resolution settings.

For more information, search this newsgroup for this much
discussed topic.

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

Frontpages Preview is not a Browser so if you want to see how it looks
in a browser choose Preview in Browser.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Steve Easton]

Interesting. they don't show at 600 by 800 but they do at larger resolutions.
I would look for an error in your divs and tables.

I took a quick look but there's 866 lines of code to go through on the
http://www.focusenv.com/ICI_Boiler_MACT_Definition.htm page.


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
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[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

I think it's maintop_bg.gif image poking out but i'm going blind reading the html.

Frames? Why??

 

[Andrew Murray]

since everyone else will be using their browser to view your site, that's
the tool you should be judging the "look" by - not frontpage preview.
So in otherwords, don't reply on the "preview" in Frontpage. Always preview
in browser.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

It's the spaces (&nbsp in your empty cells and other cells showing
<td background="images/maintop_bg.gif" width="33%" align="left" rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
or
<td background="images/maintop_bg.gif" width="100%">&nbsp;</td>

replace them w/ a transparent gif
and delete them from lines like
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="56%">&nbsp;<hr>

That plus mixing fixed width (px) cells and % width cells in the same row and having spacer images of a different color & size than
your cell background & size
- make sure your table cells add up to 100% or the px you use
- make your cells 2 px smaller than your background images (or in empty cells apply a cell bk color to match)




| http://www.iciboilermact.com is one page of concern. You see the white
| squares on the top and right side that we do not want.
|
| Same thing on this page http://www.focusenv.com/ICI_Boiler_MACT_Definition.htm
|
| on the right side-- both the small white square and the small line on the
| right side.
|
|
|
| "Steve Easton" wrote:
|
| > URL??
| >
| >
| > --
| > Steve Easton
| > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| > 95isalive
| > This site is best viewed..................
| > ...............................with a computer
| > | > > I am using FrontPage 2003 to design a page, which has several cells and
| > > tables. In the preview, it looks fine. However, after publishing the page
| > > to the web, the appearance of the page is slightly different. More
| > > specifically the width of some of the cells are wider in some areas on the
| > > page and it is not consistent. Also, borders around some cells show up on
| > > the published page but not in the preview?
| >
| >
| >