Solve : Background image moves?

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Answer» I designing a webpage for a friend at www.isaacjohnlewisart.com . The problem I cannot resolve is that the background image and the text do not stay syncronized. I have tried putting the background image in a table and fiddled a lot with it to no avail. I want the whole thing centered on the page. Please be explicict as I am kind of new to Frontpage. Thanks JoeWhat text? I am seeing one photo (of a very coold dude) and all the links, but not a lot else. All of the links point to files on your computer - you perhaps haven't uploaded them to the web host yet. You can make the photo a background image in a DIV container with specified height and width, and then place your text within that DIV. That should pose no problem. Using FrontPage however WILL pose a problem. It does weird, inexplicable, non-standard things with HTML. >NVu< is better, and free. Alternatively, Dreamweaver is excellent (but costly).Hey, Thanks for the input. I GUESS your on a amac which does not display the site properly. At least in windows it lets you NAVIGATE through all the pages. I have bought a book on Frontpage and think I have found a solution to the first problem but not the one your having. Cheers. LionelThe Home button appears below Contact in my browser (IE 6). That's inconsistent with the idea of having your main image centered on the entire page. By the way, the large image is a very nice one but the file size is huge (429,265 bytes). Here's the same image in JPEG format; it's only 126,940 bytes: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/farmpond/forums/Merged-web-Image1.jpg. Feel free to use it, but don't link to it on your site from my photobucket account. Save it to your hard drive first, then upload it to your web server. Quote I guess your on a amac Nope. Quote At least in windows it lets you navigate through all the pages. No. Possibly you don't appreciate what I'm saying. Your uploaded page is incorrect. The first link for example, to Havana seen and heard: the section of HTML within your document SAYS this: Code: [Select]<a href="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\gabriella%20klein\My%20Documents\My%20Webs\My%20Webs\Havana%20Seen%20&%20Heard.htm">You see that "file:///C:\Documents..." bit? That is looking for the linked page on a hard drive. And since the index page is loaded on my computer, when I click the link, it LOOKS on my hard drive. Yes it will WORK for you - because it finds the page on your hard drive. No use for anyone else. You need to publish the entire site to the web. FrontPage confuses this issue. Yet another reason why budding web developers should seriously consider using a different design tool, plus a decent FTP program.I've used FrontPage in the past and I can't disagree with Rob's view of it, although I believe the FrontPage 2003 is better than older versions as far as not putting a lot of FrontPage specific code in the HTML files. But, joeaverage, you're clearly doing something wrong. FrontPage, if used properly, would not have put references to your hard drive in your final HTML files. So, if you're going to use FrontPage, then it seems you do not a good reference book to help you learn more about it. I did not try to digest your entire home page HTML file, but it appears to have a lot of clutter, making it much larger than necessary. I mean, really, your home page is not a complex page. And, I know that FrontPage does not generate all of that if properly used.Thanks dude, I am looking into it. It has been a while since I have used this program. Lionel

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I designing a webpage for a friend at www.isaacjohnlewisart.com . The problem I cannot resolve is that the background image and the text do not stay syncronized. I have tried putting the background image in a table and fiddled a lot with it to no avail.

I want the whole thing centered on the page.

Please be explicict as I am kind of new to Frontpage.

Thanks

JoeWhat text?

I am seeing one photo (of a very coold dude) and all the links, but not a lot else. All of the links point to files on your computer - you perhaps haven't uploaded them to the web host yet.

You can make the photo a background image in a DIV container with specified height and width, and then place your text within that DIV. That should pose no problem. Using FrontPage however WILL pose a problem. It does weird, inexplicable, non-standard things with HTML. >NVu< is better, and free. Alternatively, Dreamweaver is excellent (but costly).Hey,

Thanks for the input. I GUESS your on a amac which does not display the site properly. At least in windows it lets you NAVIGATE through all the pages. I have bought a book on Frontpage and think I have found a solution to the first problem but not the one your having.

Cheers.

LionelThe Home button appears below Contact in my browser (IE 6). That's inconsistent with the idea of having your main image centered on the entire page. By the way, the large image is a very nice one but the file size is huge (429,265 bytes). Here's the same image in JPEG format; it's only 126,940 bytes: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/farmpond/forums/Merged-web-Image1.jpg. Feel free to use it, but don't link to it on your site from my photobucket account. Save it to your hard drive first, then upload it to your web server. Quote

I guess your on a amac

Nope.

Quote

At least in windows it lets you navigate through all the pages.

No. Possibly you don't appreciate what I'm saying. Your uploaded page is incorrect. The first link for example, to Havana seen and heard: the section of HTML within your document SAYS this:

Code: [Select]<a
href="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\gabriella%20klein\My%20Documents\My%20Webs\My%20Webs\Havana%20Seen%20&%20Heard.htm">You see that "file:///C:\Documents..." bit? That is looking for the linked page on a hard drive. And since the index page is loaded on my computer, when I click the link, it LOOKS on my hard drive. Yes it will WORK for you - because it finds the page on your hard drive. No use for anyone else. You need to publish the entire site to the web.

FrontPage confuses this issue. Yet another reason why budding web developers should seriously consider using a different design tool, plus a decent FTP program.I've used FrontPage in the past and I can't disagree with Rob's view of it, although I believe the FrontPage 2003 is better than older versions as far as not putting a lot of FrontPage specific code in the HTML files. But, joeaverage, you're clearly doing something wrong. FrontPage, if used properly, would not have put references to your hard drive in your final HTML files. So, if you're going to use FrontPage, then it seems you do not a good reference book to help you learn more about it.

I did not try to digest your entire home page HTML file, but it appears to have a lot of clutter, making it much larger than necessary. I mean, really, your home page is not a complex page. And, I know that FrontPage does not generate all of that if properly used.Thanks dude,

I am looking into it. It has been a while since I have used this program.

Lionel

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