Website Width

[Mark K]

I currently have a website and the width is set to 100% of
the browser. I do not like how the sight re-aligns thins
on different screen settings. It looks great on 1024x768
but kind of awkward in 800x600. I would like to change
this so that The width is fixed and takes up a full screen
in 800x600 but in larger settings it aligns left and has a
background color fill in the space on the right side of
the screen. If you want to see an example of this go to
www.cbs.sportsline.com and change your settings between
800x600 and 1024x768. Can I make this change to the Web as
a whole or do I nee to make changes to each individual
page? Thanks a lot for your help.

Mark K.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Structure your page layout using tables.

Set the page background color to blue or whatever you want under page
properties.

Insert a single table/cell set to 750 pixels wide and two rows, with the
cell background color set to white or whatever you want for the bottom row.

The above will become your template for all additional pages, which you
would create by doing a save as from this page, so you want to add all of
the common items, header, footer, navigation, etc. to this page. I would
suggest that you navigation be in a FP Include Page, so that you only have
to update a single page in the future when you have to add new pages.

After you have the above template page, and you do a save as, you would
insert additional tables/cells in the bottom cell, which will hold the
unique content for this specific page.

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[Jim Buyens]

In all probability, you need to change each page.

This type of site, however, is a wonderful candidate for
FP2003 Dynamic Web Templates. With DWT's, you would:

1. Create a sample page (i.e. a template) that specifies
the background color, margins, and other page
properties you want, plus a one-celled table, probably
about 750 pixels wide, that will contain your content.

2. Specify the inside of that table as an Editable Region.

3. Save the page as a Dynamic Web Template.

4. Apply the Dynamic Web Template to as many pages as you
want.

In each page that uses the DWT, the entire page will
be "locked" except for areas you marked in the template as
Editable Region(s). This provides assurance that every
page that uses the template will have the same background
color, margins, layout table width, and so forth.

But the real payback comes later, when you want to make a
global change to the site. You simply change the Dynamic
Web Template, and FrontPage propagates the change to every
page that uses that template.

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