Frontpage - WYSIWYG? I think not!

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I'm redesigning the template for some of my WSS sites, and after spending
most of an afternoon trying to get everything properly positioned within
frontpage 2003, I save the files back to the server only to realize that the
alignment is all messed up when I open the pages in either IE or firefox. It
looks fine in the design and preview views within frontpage, but not when I
open it up in a browser.

I thought frontpage was a wysiwyg editor... this make me miss the floating
boxes of adobe golive, where you can position the floating boxes anywhere and
it won't mess up anything around it. But when editing my sharepoint sites I
find that if I stretch certain cells several others get all screwed up.

So... how do I really make frontpage a wysiwyg editor so my tidy site in
frontpage will actually look the same in IE or firefox.

Also, How do I set hardcoded cell borders so that when the window expands
the cells don't grow at all. This is one of the reasons for my pages being
messed up as noted above, and if I can figure out how to stop certain images
from stretching in higher resolutions I'll get some of these problems out of
the way.
 
For what it's worth, there is no such thing as a WYSIWYG HTML authoring
system, nor could there be until everybody is using the same version of a
single browser.
So... how do I really make frontpage a wysiwyg editor so my tidy site in
frontpage will actually look the same in IE or firefox.
Click to expand...

The best way - the VERY best way, is to use code that validates.
 
If I am understanding you correctly you want your tables to stay a fixed
size even when the window of a browser changes sizes. To do that right-click
inside a table that you want to see the properties of and choose Table
Properties menu. In the Layout area put a check mark inside the Specify
width or Specify height boxes and also chose In pixels and the table will
stay the pixel size that you specify. If you want it bigger or smaller you
can click and drag the table boarder to change the size after that.

Jeff
 
Do you have the FrontPage design window set to the same size as the
browser window you're using to view the pages from the server ??


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You are confusing failure of WYSIWYG with failure to understand HTML.

Do you think cruise control allows you to take a nap in the back seat?
 
Murray: Cruise control is only good if you have a beer in each hand ;-)

Tom

| You mean it DOESN'T?
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| --
| Murray
| ============
|
| | > You are confusing failure of WYSIWYG with failure to understand HTML.
| >
| > Do you think cruise control allows you to take a nap in the back seat?
| >
|
|
 
Setting the dimensions of a cell seemed to fix the resize issue, at least for
IE, but not for firefox.

default sharepoint team sites have a search bar and a link to go to the root
site on the top right side of the page. Even if I shrink or expand the
window these cells seem to stick to the right edge of the window. How do I
do this in frontpage?
 
Here's a brief comparison between ie and firefox
In Firefox:
backgroud images are a bit off center
links on left menu are underlined
wordart "sudbury canoe club" title is pixelated (but I can convert that to a
jpg if no other solution"

In IE and Firefox:
Search field cells, "up to <root>" link, and "modify shared page/sign in
button" won't stick to right edge of screen (meaning I want them to stay
glued to the right edge even if I increase the browser window size. right
now I'm in 1280x800)
Subpages like Shared documents and documents and lists aren't using the same
template the main page is using. How do I make all pages underneath a site
use the same template?

And here's an example so you can see what I mean
http://projects.lloydresearch.com/template2/default.aspx
 
Posting your issue repeatedly to other users posts is counter productive, confusing to users trying to help the OP, and not going to
get you any answers sooner
- stick to your original thread

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| Here's a brief comparison between ie and firefox
| In Firefox:
| backgroud images are a bit off center
| links on left menu are underlined
| wordart "sudbury canoe club" title is pixelated (but I can convert that to a
| jpg if no other solution"
|
| In IE and Firefox:
| Search field cells, "up to <root>" link, and "modify shared page/sign in
| button" won't stick to right edge of screen (meaning I want them to stay
| glued to the right edge even if I increase the browser window size. right
| now I'm in 1280x800)
| Subpages like Shared documents and documents and lists aren't using the same
| template the main page is using. How do I make all pages underneath a site
| use the same template?
|
| And here's an example so you can see what I mean
| http://projects.lloydresearch.com/template2/default.aspx
|
| "Ryan" wrote:
|
| > Setting the dimensions of a cell seemed to fix the resize issue, at least for
| > IE, but not for firefox.
| >
| > default sharepoint team sites have a search bar and a link to go to the root
| > site on the top right side of the page. Even if I shrink or expand the
| > window these cells seem to stick to the right edge of the window. How do I
| > do this in frontpage?
| >
| >
 
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