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

martin weinberger · Aug 30, 2003

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.

Thomas A. Rowe · Aug 31, 2003

And you will need to remove any html tags already on the page the will now
be controlled by CSS.

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martin weinberger · Aug 31, 2003

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?

Stefan B Rusynko · Aug 31, 2003

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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| 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)
|
|
|

martin weinberger · Aug 31, 2003

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!

Peter Taurins · Sep 1, 2003

Martin.

You need the full line in your CSS file.

body {background-color: #000066;}

Including the word body.

Peter.

Guest · Nov 10, 2003

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

Thomas A. Rowe · Nov 10, 2003

I believe that feature has been replaced by the Dynamic Web Templates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

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Judi said:
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

E. T. Culling · Nov 11, 2003

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 said:
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

Stefan B Rusynko · Nov 11, 2003

And use of external style sheets

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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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|
| FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
| MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| ==============================================
| To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
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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
|
|

Guest · Dec 11, 2003

Does anyone know where I can find the button to add background information of
another page to the one I am working with in Front Page 2003?

Thanks

----- martin weinberger skrev: -----

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!

Stefan B Rusynko · Dec 11, 2003

It has been removed in favor of applying a style sheet

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| Does anyone know where I can find the button to add background information of
| another page to the one I am working with in Front Page 2003?
|
| Thanks
|
| ----- martin weinberger skrev: -----
|
| 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.

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

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