Moving objects on the screen

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I have a problem with things moving on the screen based on the type of
monitor you are using. When I create it on my desktop it all looks fine.
When I look at say on a laptop or some other monitor, some of the symbols
like rectangula sysmbo and text shift all around on the page. Some of the
things just flat go away. Help ! Thanks
 
Are you using tables to keep the width of the page standard? Also, what kind
of symbols are you using? Something to keep in mind, symbols are generally
not available in the few standard web fonts and use other symbol specific
fonts. It could be that you are choosing symbol fonts that are not readily
available for all users, which could result in font substitution and strange
behavior.

Can you post a URL so we can take a peak at what you mean? That is often the
only way to get a handle on what is going on.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
The World-Wide Web is just that: World-wide. It is populated by people of
many nations, using many types of computer hardware, different operating
systems, different screen resolutions, different browsers with differeing
configurations, and differing browser window sizes. Making a web page look
the same in all of them is impossible. That said, however, there are ways of
making a web page look acceptably close to the same in almost all of them.
This, however, is not a simple task.

For a beginner, perhaps using HTML tables for layout is the best idea to
start with. Positioning elements in a page is a difficult task without using
either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or tables. CSS is definitely more
difficult to master. HTML tables are relatively easy to use, and FrontPage
can build them for you easily. You can set the layout properties of a table
to use absolute pixel dimensions, or percentages. If you want the table to
expand and contract with the browser window, use percentages. If you want
the contents of the table to remain in the same place regardless of the
browser window, use absolute pixel sizes.

Then you simply put your HTML content (text, images, etc) into the various
table cells you create.

Again, even this will be something of a learning curve. But that's just the
way things are.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Everybody picks their nose,
But some people are better at hiding it.
 
Also I forgot to tell you Mark that I mislead you when I said symbol. I
actually using
autoshapes.
 
In FrontPage 2003 if I were to put the tables into layer / DIV would that fix
the problem? That would allow me to move the tables freely to put them where
i want the content.
 
Yes, but it would trigger another whole cascade of problems - you don't want
to go there.

Your best bet is to learn how to layout the page with tables only. Then you
will understand why using tables in layers for your content is a bad
idea....

Or do you want me to tell you now? 8)
 
Autoshapes (VML Graphics) can only be seen in IE browsers running under Windows.

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