Photo Gallery

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I have 2 sparate and different photo-gallereis on my
website, They look and work fine, however when you click
on one of the thumbnails, the page shows the photo
enlarged, but with a white background, and only filling
the frame partly

How can I configure it such that the picture fills the
whole frame, and how can I change the default white
background of the enlarged pictures to another color

Thanks
 
It sounds as if you are utilizing Front Page's
Photogallery. The "page" that shows up when you click on
one of the thumbnails is not really a web page at all.
You have no control over the background color. The size
of the picture shown will be that size of the original
you used when creating the photogallery.

To accomplish what you describe you need to create
another web page for EACH of the pictures with your
desired background color. These pictures would be sized
by you to "fit the whole page". Please remember that
these pictures will fill more on less of the web
visitor's screen depending on their particular monitor
resolution setting. This would entail abandoning the
Front Page Photogallery component.

I have not used the Photogallery component, but you can
search this newsgroup to find that not many folks
recommend using this Front Page feature especially if you
want to change the photos periodically.

I hope this helps and is not too discouraging.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have 2 sparate and different photo-gallereis on my
website, They look and work fine, however when you click
on one of the thumbnails, the page shows the photo
enlarged, but with a white background, and only filling
the frame partly

How can I configure it such that the picture fills the
whole frame, and how can I change the default white
background of the enlarged pictures to another color
Click to expand...

FrontPage Photo Galleries don't have this feature.
Clicking a thumbnail tells the browser to retrieve and
display the full sized picture, with no surrounding Web
page. And the browser always displays everything starting
at the top left corner of the window.

If your host is running a Windows server with the .NET
framework installed, the ASP.NET Picture Library at
http://www.interlacken.com/fp11extras/piclib/default.aspx
might interest you. This is an ASP.NET application that
comes with each copy of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Inside Out. To add photos or folders, you just copy them
into the appropriate folder tree. And because you get all
the source code, you can modify the application all you
want.

Of course, if you're not ready to start working with
ASP.NET, you can always look for third-party photo
galleries.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Jim,


thanks for this, I will surel y look at the solution you suggested. in the meantime, could you please be so kind as to have another look at my FP2003 compatibility thread. Much Appreciated

Pim
 
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