I'm new and need help with background...

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I've created an image (as my background) which is one solid color and an
object that should end up in the lower right corner of the page no matter the
browser...How can I position the image to act this way?
 
I'm no expert, (you can tell by the name) but i am pretty sure i can inform
you to how this kind of thing works. Now, switching ANYTHING from browser to
browser is very difficult. Even for experts, becuase no two browsers process
the same thing (website, fonts, position of images, etc.) in the same way
because they were made by different people in a different way, no matter how
slightly. Now, to the issue of your picture, you want to use a table to hold
the picture in place, but because you have it on the right side of your
website, you now have a bit of a problem. If you look at the options you
have next to "preview browser" in |file| you will notice that you have
several options just for explorer! (that's the default) that is because they
all have different resolutions. They have that becuase when viewing you page
on the internet, not everyone is going to have the same resolution when
looking at your page, which could very well distort your page and how well
they can navigate through your website. That is why using tables and cells
and stuff (which you can find by pressing "ctrl + F1" and change "getting
started" to "cell formatting") are very important.

because your website will be slightly deformed dependent upon what browser
and what resolution someone is looking at your site at, having your picture
there, could give you trouble, but try using tables. That should hold the
picture in relatively the same spot. also keep in mind that not all
computers will have the same font as the one your putting on your site (i got
that information, and which fonts most computers use from one of the
questions on this board, use it often and look at a lot of other ppl's
questions. I also believe you can get that same info on the help thingy
inside frontpage).

Just be careful with putting your pic in a random table and then off to the
bottom right somewhere, because ****y things could happen to it. preview
your site in different browsers often. hope that helps
 
you cannot do that, because not only does each browser register and process
information on your website differently (because each browser was created
differently) and also because everyone who looks at your site on their
computer are not going to have the same resolution in their browser. Because
of these to problems, even the experts have a hard time making a website that
functions and is presented the same way in every browser--and the only way
they get even CLOSE to doing that is because they know how to create a
website directly out of code. Same thing is true about font. Don't go too
crazy with font, because not all computers have te same font as you do so
when they look at ur website and they don't have a font that is on there, it
won't even be ledgible to them. Go to this site to get a little help/tips.
It has on here what fonts are safe to use, as well!

http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=29

But anyways, if you havn't already done so, best start out making your
website with the templates they provide and screw around with the templates a
little bit to understand how they work, better. You can add in more cells
and tables by going to ctrl F1 and also table grids (like in Word) by
surfing around. Those are the tools you want to use in order to keep your
site "under control" to some extent. In order to hold a picture still, i was
told and read countless times here to use tables to keep pitcures at least in
their general locations.

read around a lot on here about other ppls questions, i've been doing this
for a while and you learn a whole lot, plus you eventually you run into
answers that give helpful websites, and those are gold mines for information.
I personally find the stupid frontpages internet help support (like the
microsoft "ask a question") thingy, retarded, but that is just my opinion.
Hope this helps
 
The best I can think of would be to use table layout with the image in the
bottom right cell of a centered 740 pixel-wide table. (On a wider screen, the
image would not be at the right side, but it would be at the right side of
your content.) You would need to decide how tall you want your page and set
the bottom margin at zero to keep the image at the bottom.
N00b is right that there is no ideal solution.
 
Alison queried:
n00b replied:

you cannot do that, because not only does each browser
register and process
information on your website differently (because each
browser was created
differently) and also because everyone who looks at your
site on their
computer are not going to have the same resolution in
their browser.
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As stated, getting to work in all browsers is the issue.
CSS can be used to do this, but different browsers (and
versions) adopt the CSS in different ways in regards to the
page height.

Example:
http://lfd.lannonfire.com/forums/FP-NG/ImagePlacement.html

In IE7, NS8, and Firebird 0.7, she is right on location wise
In Firefox 1.5.0.3 and Opera, she is all the way to the
right, but she is at the bottom of the page content, which
is short of the page
 
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