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petal Posts: 2 Joined: 3/9/2009 Status: offline	Frontpage Newbie - 3/9/2009 8:00:02 Hello there. I am using Microsoft Frontpage 2003 to set up a website for my business. At this stage I'm still playing with the features to see how everything works and won't go live with the site until it looks brilliant and everything works properly. Nothing like a healthy dose of positivity! Hopefully I'm not asking a question that was answered somewhere else already... My first little stumbling block is trying to figure out how to freeze my pictures/tables/etc in the spots I originally put them so that when the screen is reduced in size, the information doesn't all automatically move to fit and end up all jumbled on top of itself. I'd prefer it to be chopped off the screen and seen by scrolling across instead of what is happening for me now. How do I set margins/preferences or whatever to keep the layout a certain way however small the window? I hope that I've explained myself well enough and appreciate any tips and advice you can offer! Thanks xx


treetopsranch Posts: 1539 From: Cottage Grove, OR, USA Status: offline	RE: Frontpage Newbie - 3/9/2009 11:49:58 When you say "screen is reduced in size" are you referring to mobile devices? _____________________________ Don from TreeTops Ranch, Oregon "I've got a taste for quality and luxury" (in reply to petal)


petal Posts: 2 Joined: 3/9/2009 Status: offline	RE: Frontpage Newbie - 3/9/2009 17:28:09 Hi Don, For 'screen is reduced in size', I meant when you click 'restore down' to make the viewing window smaller. For example, if you want to view two windows side by side, each one takes up half of the screen. Doing this makes my text crowd in to fit and encroach on pictures underneath. It makes it look like this, fitting a narrower screen. Instead of looking like this, spreading across a normal sized window and getting visually cut off if the window is reduced down. Thanks for taking the time to try and figure out what I'm saying! Rachael xx (in reply to treetopsranch)


treetopsranch Posts: 1539 From: Cottage Grove, OR, USA Status: offline	RE: Frontpage Newbie - 3/9/2009 21:01:00 quote: It makes it look like this, fitting a narrower screen. I think that is the way it is supposed to display. _____________________________ Don from TreeTops Ranch, Oregon "I've got a taste for quality and luxury" (in reply to petal)


Tailslide Posts: 6692 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Frontpage Newbie - 3/10/2009 3:17:31 Yep - that's what it's supposed to do. Best approach (and there's no perfect system yet) is to allow a certain amount of flexibility in your design. The site should work for people down to 800px wide browsers (760px approx actual page width) and up to a reasonably wide screen too without a horizontal scrollbar. The site should also not break if people increase the text size in their browsers. Why no horizontal scrollbar? Couple of reasons. Firstly, it might well obscure some important bit of content and secondly it's just considered annoying by users and should be avoided if possible. Can you please all the people all of the time? Nope. But you can do your best to try to please as many as possible. Best tips I could offer (apart from using CSS layouts rather than tables - there, got that in!) would be to go for % widths on your layout, don't add heights to elements unless they physically can't increase in height (e.g. a photo), check your site in as many browsers as you can (at least IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari for PC) to ensure everything works cross-browser and check and check again to ensure your code is valid. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to treetopsranch)