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When you view www.betancourtcommunities.com in widescreen it stretches the
images out and moves the layers around. I thought placing them in a table
would prevent this.

This is my first website and would love some feedback on making it better.
Maybe I should not leave it so open ended because I could get LOTS of
feedback. I know it is basic so I am more concerned about everything lining
up right, fitting into a browser screen, etc.
 
The stuff that's moving is absolute positioned shapes, textboxes etc. -
don't use them
Didn't see too many tables on your site.




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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





| When you view www.betancourtcommunities.com in widescreen it stretches the
| images out and moves the layers around. I thought placing them in a table
| would prevent this.
|
| This is my first website and would love some feedback on making it better.
| Maybe I should not leave it so open ended because I could get LOTS of
| feedback. I know it is basic so I am more concerned about everything
lining
| up right, fitting into a browser screen, etc.
 
Suggest you look at the site in FireFox - the body text appears smudged
and is difficult to read. Also the link to City Park Townhomes is not a
link - this is normal when using VML text boxes.
Same applies to all Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers.

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for reasons
why VML should be avoided.

Also, the top banner image takes a very long time to download - 181K
should be a lot nearer to 30K. This needs to be optimised for the web.

Drop the absolute positioning (which will cause headaches in IE [but not
in Firefox since the body text is actually an image while you use
text-boxes] when text is resized by the users), and use a fixed width,
centred container (table, <div> etc.) for the content.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
 
Do I understand correctly, that as long as you crop and save your WordArt as
a jpeg or gif, it is safe to use them....that they will display properly in
all browsers? I have read two different opinions about whether to save as
jpeg or gif...is one better?

Ronx said:
Suggest you look at the site in FireFox - the body text appears smudged
and is difficult to read. Also the link to City Park Townhomes is not a
link - this is normal when using VML text boxes.
Same applies to all Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers.

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for reasons
why VML should be avoided.

Also, the top banner image takes a very long time to download - 181K
should be a lot nearer to 30K. This needs to be optimised for the web.

Drop the absolute positioning (which will cause headaches in IE [but not
in Firefox since the body text is actually an image while you use
text-boxes] when text is resized by the users), and use a fixed width,
centred container (table, <div> etc.) for the content.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




When you view www.betancourtcommunities.com in widescreen it stretches the
images out and moves the layers around. I thought placing them in a table
would prevent this.

This is my first website and would love some feedback on making it better.
Maybe I should not leave it so open ended because I could get LOTS of
feedback. I know it is basic so I am more concerned about everything lining
up right, fitting into a browser screen, etc.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
..jpg and .gif images are visible in all browsers (except text only
browsers and screen readers).

In general, use .gif if the graphic has a few solid colours. Use .jpg
if the graphic contains gradients or more than 256 colours - try both
and use the one that looks best.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




Do I understand correctly, that as long as you crop and save your WordArt as
a jpeg or gif, it is safe to use them....that they will display properly in
all browsers? I have read two different opinions about whether to save as
jpeg or gif...is one better?

Ronx said:
Suggest you look at the site in FireFox - the body text appears smudged
and is difficult to read. Also the link to City Park Townhomes is not a
link - this is normal when using VML text boxes.
Same applies to all Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers.

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for reasons
why VML should be avoided.

Also, the top banner image takes a very long time to download - 181K
should be a lot nearer to 30K. This needs to be optimised for the web.

Drop the absolute positioning (which will cause headaches in IE [but not
in Firefox since the body text is actually an image while you use
text-boxes] when text is resized by the users), and use a fixed width,
centred container (table, <div> etc.) for the content.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




When you view www.betancourtcommunities.com in widescreen it stretches the
images out and moves the layers around. I thought placing them in a table
would prevent this.

This is my first website and would love some feedback on making it better.
Maybe I should not leave it so open ended because I could get LOTS of
feedback. I know it is basic so I am more concerned about everything lining
up right, fitting into a browser screen, etc.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Ronx said:
jpg and .gif images are visible in all browsers (except text only browsers
and screen readers).

In general, use .gif if the graphic has a few solid colours. Use .jpg if
the graphic contains gradients or more than 256 colours - try both and use
the one that looks best.
Click to expand...

Or, if they both look good, the one with the smaller file size.
 
How do you save wordart to a .jpg file? I have tried to save it in MS
Publisher and it comes out looking jagged in Frontpage. Wordart does not
paste into MS Digital Image or PhotoImpression. MS Word does not save .jpg
files. PowerPoint will save Wordart as .jpg files, but it comes out jagged
in Frontpage.
The reason why I want to use Wordart, of course, is because it is so simple
to generate attractive text. Should I be using something else for Titles,
etc?
Thanks for your help.
 
Pastes in Ms Digital Image Suite 2006 (DIS).

Open DIS.
File->New
Set the canvas size and click Done.

Open the document with the WordArt, with the art centred in the
document. (if using Paint for the conversion, place the WordArt in top
left corner)

Press Ctrl+PrtScrn to copy the window to the clipboard.

Back in DIS, Edit->Paste.
Move the pasted image to place the WordArt on the canvas.

Use Crop Canvas tool to crop out the wordart, and save as .jpg.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




"Winning and Warning" <[email protected]>
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How do you save wordart to a .jpg file? I have tried to save it in MS
Publisher and it comes out looking jagged in Frontpage. Wordart does not
paste into MS Digital Image or PhotoImpression. MS Word does not save .jpg
files. PowerPoint will save Wordart as .jpg files, but it comes out jagged
in Frontpage.
The reason why I want to use Wordart, of course, is because it is so simple
to generate attractive text. Should I be using something else for Titles,
etc?
Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...
 
Hi
It worked! Had some trouble getting the background right, but it works.
Thanks a million. I'm telling all my friends about you.
Winning and Warning

Ronx said:
Pastes in Ms Digital Image Suite 2006 (DIS).

Open DIS.
File->New
Set the canvas size and click Done.

Open the document with the WordArt, with the art centred in the
document. (if using Paint for the conversion, place the WordArt in top
left corner)

Press Ctrl+PrtScrn to copy the window to the clipboard.

Back in DIS, Edit->Paste.
Move the pasted image to place the WordArt on the canvas.

Use Crop Canvas tool to crop out the wordart, and save as .jpg.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




"Winning and Warning" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
How do you save wordart to a .jpg file? I have tried to save it in MS
Publisher and it comes out looking jagged in Frontpage. Wordart does not
paste into MS Digital Image or PhotoImpression. MS Word does not save .jpg
files. PowerPoint will save Wordart as .jpg files, but it comes out jagged
in Frontpage.
The reason why I want to use Wordart, of course, is because it is so simple
to generate attractive text. Should I be using something else for Titles,
etc?
Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
The reason why I want to use Wordart, of course, is because it is so
simple
to generate attractive text. Should I be using something else for Titles,
etc?
Click to expand...

I was wondering what the reason would be. It's very simple to make an
attractive text GIF or JPEG in any graphics program, just FYI - you're
definitely not limited to using "Wordart".
 
Thank you Rob - I have everything in one table. I guess what you're saying
is to put each item or group of items in it's own table. If you have any
tutorials - please forward a link. I know nothing about tables in websites!
 
Thank you - I will read up on the links you provided and see where that
leads me.

Ronx said:
Suggest you look at the site in FireFox - the body text appears smudged
and is difficult to read. Also the link to City Park Townhomes is not a
link - this is normal when using VML text boxes.
Same applies to all Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers.

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for reasons
why VML should be avoided.

Also, the top banner image takes a very long time to download - 181K
should be a lot nearer to 30K. This needs to be optimised for the web.

Drop the absolute positioning (which will cause headaches in IE [but not
in Firefox since the body text is actually an image while you use
text-boxes] when text is resized by the users), and use a fixed width,
centred container (table, <div> etc.) for the content.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/




When you view www.betancourtcommunities.com in widescreen it stretches the
images out and moves the layers around. I thought placing them in a table
would prevent this.

This is my first website and would love some feedback on making it better.
Maybe I should not leave it so open ended because I could get LOTS of
feedback. I know it is basic so I am more concerned about everything lining
up right, fitting into a browser screen, etc.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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