Website Positioning using a table

[Guest]

OK, please see my post further down entitled "Website Positioning"

Basically, I wanted a website to always be centered in the middle of the
page and I have resigned to the fact that I am going to have to re-design my
website.

I heard talk of using a table, then centering it, and then placing all of my
content in there. This works great for text, but, if I try and add a layer
or drawing or picture inside the table, when you view the site on a higher
resolution, these items stay where they are and the text moves to the right a
centers itself.

AHHHH!!!!! Please help, this is driving me mad now. How do I add additional
content such as drawings and graphics and still have them centered with the
text?

 

[Murray]

It's better to keep everything under the same thread, Si.

You will struggle with this until you get some HTML understanding under your
belt.

You can center your page by placing the entire page within a centering
table. Using this method, you cannot use any absolute positioning. It WILL
work for pictures, however - just not for "Layers".

You can center your page using CSS, but I fear that this is miles beyond
your current capability.

I'd recommend you avoid absolute positioning and just use tables.

 

[Guest]

Murray, by centering table - do you mean the following (cuz this is what i
did):

1. Start with blank page
2. Go to Frontpage toolbar and choose table (1x1)
3. Right click new single-cell table and choose "Table Properties"
4. Make sure it is set to "centered"

This works fine for text, so, when I insert a graphic - do I need to amke
sure the positiong is set to "None"?

 

[Rick Budde]

Your original question was how do I center my webpage.

Now you are working on the next step in designing web
pages, positioning the content. You may find it useful to
make a paper sketch of what you want your page layout to
be. Once you have done that, think in terms of placing
the content in tables (yes, you can have tables within
tables).

For instance, assume you want a "menu" down the left hand
side on your page, a title area at the top of your page
and the "content" in the lower right hand portion of your
page. Create a two by two table and "merge the top two
cells into one (right click on Table).

At some point in time (probably NOW), you will reduce
your level of frustration in learning Front Page if you
purchase "Microsoft Front Page 200x Inside Out" by Jim
Buyens. Be sure to get the version of the book that
covers your version of Front Page.

 

[Murray]

That's one approach.

Another would be to spend the same dollar and the same time on learning HTML
(and CSS). With a good foundation in HTML and CSS, the tool becomes much
more irrelevant, if not entirely so.