Keeping Margins correct

[Guest]

Hi ALL,
This site is not one of the best I've found IT IS THE BEST>
I posted a question here, got an answer and IT WORKED>

Now I hope I can do that again, I hope someone out there has
an answer to this one. I'll try my best to explain everything I can
about the problem.

I use Front Page, I set up a full page on my website,
You know the old saying WYSIWYG, (what you see is what you get)
will that is what I would like to have Front Page do. The first few lines
of each page on the web site is exactly the same and they never change.

so is the last few lines on each page. ONLY the middle which is a photo
and a paragraph of information about the photo changes. Now sometimes
I have a second page that goes with the first one, of couse I use NEXT and
BACK buttons to navigate to this second page. Now this second page usually
has 4 to 6 extra smaller photo's on it. with a caption under each one.

what I need to know is there a way to make Front Page keep the margins is
set up??
I line up the titles or captions with the photo's, it look wonderful
everything is in place and the page really LOOKS great. BUT sometimes when I
go to view it on the web site the titles of the photo's is out of place, on
the first page I mentioned sometimes the paragraph of text is either far to
the right, or far to the left. NOT where I put it when I published the page
to the web site. Oh and I now use the html format for publishing the pages.

Also sometimes even if it looks good on the site, it will not print out
correctly it is all over the place when it prints.

the site is www.fliehmanrealty.com if anyone would like to take a look.
it is a pretty bad problem as customers like to print out my pages to compare
them with others.
thank you
Little Auggie.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Yes there is a way to set the margins; right click the (current) page,
select Page Properties, Advanced. Then set Right, Left, Top, Bottom margin
for both IE and Netscape. This applies only to the current page. There is
an addin on www.jimcoaddins.com that can apply page margins to every page in
the site in one hit.

However, it sounds like this is a table alignment problem (nothing to do
with margins). From a brief "print preview", I see the images are cut-off
on the right hand side.

Under the Table properties, try experimenting with the "position"
"alignment" and "Float" settings (various terms to describe basically the
same thing - the position of the table - left, centre, right.
In your table tag as it is: <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> try
adding "align=left" to this, and then try doing a print out/viewing on
screen after publishing the page.

Be aware that this might different from system to system and browser to
browser. If you frequently have visitors printing the info, consider making
up a PDF document or providing the info in a secondary manner for printing.
You see this on a lot of sites - the graphic intensive version and then a
"print friendly" version.

Try this and post back with the outcome.

BTW your site looks OK when I'm viewing it on IE 6.0 with Windows XP (SP2).
The issue is really determining the "real" width of the page vs the width of
the viewers screen, because screens are not the same as a piece of paper,
and therefore "WYSIWYG" applications try to make what you see *more or less*
what you get on screen

Other solutions are to use CSS (not my expertise) to set margins to a degree
that you can get a print out without cutting off any photos

Hope this assists you.