New to Frontpage 2003 Help Please

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Hi,
I have spent alot of time on this, and am hoping someone can help me. I
have been trying to resize the templet that has the header footer and 3
columns, to a header footer and 2 columns and a 1 inch space in the center.

The left column is for my pictures, pictures no wider that 400 wide. Then
and inch seperation, (spacer column) and the description oppasite (to the
right) in the second row. I am adding a row to each picture to keep my text
in alignment. So, I guess I am creating cells? I don't know, but I do know
I have a mess.

I hope that made sense. I am wondering, is there a template or html I can
go to without rearanging everytime. I need about 20 of the same page. I am
so lost with tables, cells, etc. Very Very challenged! I am not capable of
creating one. I am at my wits end.

Thanks for any help you can be.
 
Susie said:
Hi,
I have spent alot of time on this, and am hoping someone can help me.
I have been trying to resize the templet that has the header footer
and 3 columns, to a header footer and 2 columns and a 1 inch space in
the center.

The left column is for my pictures, pictures no wider that 400 wide.
Then and inch seperation, (spacer column) and the description
oppasite (to the right) in the second row. I am adding a row to each
picture to keep my text in alignment. So, I guess I am creating
cells? I don't know, but I do know I have a mess.

I hope that made sense. I am wondering, is there a template or html
I can go to without rearanging everytime. I need about 20 of the
same page. I am so lost with tables, cells, etc. Very Very
challenged! I am not capable of creating one. I am at my wits end.

Thanks for any help you can be.
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Susie,
I don't know what the problem is.

Doesn't the middle column stay the correct width ?
Or what?

What should work is just a table:
<table>
<tr> <!-- This is row 1 -->
<td width="400"><img src="image1.jpg" alt="......"></td> <This is
column 1 of row 1 -->
<td><img src="blank.gif" alt=""></td>
<This is column 2 of row 1 -->
<td>Decription of Image 1</td>
<This is column 3 of row 1 -->
</tr> <!-- End of row 1 -->
then replicate each row for each new image and end the table by
</table>

blank.gif is what it says - a blank (transparent) gif of the width you want
for the second column, or you can specify its width
e.g. <td><img src="blank.gif" alt="" width="100px"></td>
You should be able to find one almost anywhere on the web.
Here is one on my site http://tandcl.homemail.au/images/display/blank.gif .
It is 15*15 so you can resize it.

You can also do the same with two columns by adding right padding to column1
and left padding to column2 , but that's another story (not difficult, just
different).
 
Susie said:
Hi,
I have spent alot of time on this, and am hoping someone can help me. I
have been trying to resize the templet that has the header footer and 3
columns, to a header footer and 2 columns and a 1 inch space in the
Click to expand...
center.

Just make the middle columum one inch and colour to the page background so
it appears there is a 'space' bear in mind you don't want your whole width
of the page to be bigger than 800px as that is the smallest size to design
for otherwise people have to scroll at that size.

The left column is for my pictures, pictures no wider that 400 wide. Then
and inch seperation, (spacer column) and the description oppasite (to the
right) in the second row. I am adding a row to each picture to keep my text
in alignment. So, I guess I am creating cells? I don't know, but I do know
I have a mess.

I hope that made sense. I am wondering, is there a template or html I can
go to without rearanging everytime. I need about 20 of the same page. I am
so lost with tables, cells, etc. Very Very challenged! I am not capable of
creating one. I am at my wits end.
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A template is what the word means, once your happy with your template, name
it template.htm then while it open and saved .. go to file | Save As and a
box will come up .... insert a new name for instance about.htm change the
title while your there, and save ... now you have a new page called
about.htm and in your folder list you will see your template.htm file ....
whenever you want a new page open up your template.htm and do File | Save as
... there are other methods but this is easy enough for you right now.
There are loads of free templates on the net.

hth Tina
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Thank you for your replies! I managed to make a template and have saved it
and reusing it like you suggested Tina, this is great!

I did change my middle empty space to 50 instead of 100, 100 seemed like to
much when previewing.

So I have pages that are 800 wide, 3 columns, 400, 50, 350. Is this going
to look ok on other browsers like Firefox, and Opera?

<td align="left" width="400" valign="top"> (picture goes here)
<p> </td>
<td align="left" width="50"> </td>
<td align="left" width="350" valign="top"> <p> (descrip)

The reason I ask is because I had previously made 15 pages of the slideshow
gallery page, then I read that it won't work on those browsers.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Was that warning on the information on Frontpage 2003, and I
just missed it?

Susie
 
I did change my middle empty space to 50 instead of 100, 100 seemed like
to
much when previewing.

So I have pages that are 800 wide, 3 columns, 400, 50, 350. Is this going
to look ok on other browsers like Firefox, and Opera?

<td align="left" width="400" valign="top"> (picture goes here)
<p> </td>
<td align="left" width="50"> </td>
<td align="left" width="350" valign="top"> <p> (descrip)

The reason I ask is because I had previously made 15 pages of the slideshow
gallery page, then I read that it won't work on those browsers.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Was that warning on the information on Frontpage 2003, and I
just missed it?

Susie>
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I'm much better when I see things visually do you have a page I can look at?

Don't use the fp pg .... there are free JavaScript one's out there that do
the same thing but they are just as bad accessibility wise... just depends
what you want ...

I make thumbnails then have individual pages all html ... see
http://clarke-abstract-art.com/

hth Tina

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