Site placement and browser background

[Steven Thompson]

I've scoured FP-2003 help files and my trusty new book,
FP 2003 Inside Out. I've yet to find where I can adjust
where my site lands when viewed through a browser.

Currently, my site appears in the top left with thin
whitespace across the left and top with no background.

I'd like to know where I can find the information that
allows one to modify and experiment with these settings.

Perhaps Mr. Jim Buyens is lurking and could give me the
proper page number for centering and background color?

I've found tons of guidance for modifications within the
webpage (tables and cells), how about area outside the
webpage?

Sorry for being such a pain but the bright side is, I
won't be a rookie much longer thanks to FP-2003...

Happy New Year Everyone!

Steven Thompson
Ford, WA.

 

[Jim Buyens]

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I've scoured FP-2003 help files and my trusty new book,
FP 2003 Inside Out. I've yet to find where I can adjust
where my site lands when viewed through a browser.

Currently, my site appears in the top left with thin
whitespace across the left and top with no background.

I'd like to know where I can find the information that
allows one to modify and experiment with these settings.

Perhaps Mr. Jim Buyens is lurking and could give me the
proper page number for centering and background color?

496 for page backgrounds (File, Properties, Formatting)

498 for page margins (File, Properties, Advanced.

You can't really center an entire page. Instead, you have
to create a table that surrounds all your content, and
then center the table. To center a table:
1. Display the Insert Table or Table Properties dialog
box (p. 528).
2. Under Layout, set Alignment to Center.

BTW, you can also control page margins by means of a CSS
rule like:

body { margin:0 }

or as part of a Theme:

1. Choose Theme from the Format menu.
2. Right-click the Theme and choose Customize.
3. Click Text, and then More Text Styles.
4. In the Styles list, select body.
5. Click Modify, Format, and Paragraph.
6. Set all the following to zero (or whatever margin
you want):
o Indentation Before Text
o Indentation After Text
o Spacing Before
o Spacing After
7. OK your way back to the Customize Theme dialog box,
then save the Theme.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Jon Spivey]

Or how about using CSS to centre (center the page, eg
body{
margin: 0 10%;
}
is the same as putting the whole page in an 80% width centred table - but I
find this quicker and also easier to modify later. It would take 2 CSS rules
to create a fixed width centred layout - but probably still quicker than a
table..

Even if you did want to use a table to centre the page it would make sense
to define that table with CSS, for example let's say you built a 500 page
site based on a layout table like this
<table width="500"........
and you decided to change to a fluid (say 80% width) layout, you'd have to
change the table tag on every page. If you did this
#layoutTable{
width:500px
}
<table id="layoutTable"....
you could change the whole site by editing 1 line in your stylesheet.

 

[Tim]

Steven,
Just got the book m'self Rapidly coming to the conclusion it will be my
"bible" for a while. Don't miss the added content on the cd - worth the
price alone!
I also find that searching the e-book version can be a real advantage.
Tack

 

[Steven Thompson]

Thank you Jim,

In the last 23 years I've worked in the technology
business (mostly telecom) and have never witnessed the
level of support I find with FrontPage. You, your fellow
associates and that guy who loves cream pie, aka B.G. are
second to none...

I'll experiment real soon. I'm sure I've seen p.496 (f18-
2) in the past but thought it applied to matter within a
page, not external background. To make sure we're on the
same path perhaps you can checkout airwerx.com, then at
altavista.com, or better yet starband.com you'll see the
entire page centered w/background added. My plan is to
modify the airwerx.com site layout to closer match my
parent vendors appearance. OBTW, I used the dynamic page
template feature for my site (suggested here by other
guru's to fix interactive button/shared border conflict)
and love its simplicity...

Steven Thompson
Frigid Ford, WA.

 

[Steven Thompson]

WOW, I like simple. Guess I have some additional reading.
Thanks you for all your expert guidance.

Steven Thompson

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

To center you current page content,Just select your base table(s), then
table properties, set alignment to center. If you pages are based on the
DWT, then just that and update your pages, should be all that is needed.

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[Jim Buyens]

Steven,
Just got the book m'self Rapidly coming to the conclusion it will be my
"bible" for a while. Don't miss the added content on the cd - worth the
price alone!
I also find that searching the e-book version can be a real advantage.
Tack

Thank you both.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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