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Frontpage website looks bad on smaller screens.?

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I've got a webpage made in Frontpage 2003. When I open it on a smaller screen, all the bullets and margins are wrong. It looks terrible - what do I do so it adjusts to the right screen size?

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front page? do you drive a model t too?

I make a good part of my living replacing front page systems with something that is modern and works....email me when you are ready :)
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Quit using FrontPage.

Code the HTML yourself.

Or better yet, use FrontPage for the basic layout, and then remove most of the unnecessary things on the page for cross-browser compliance (i.e. W3 standards), and don't use FrontPage to edit the web site anymore after that.

The reason for this is simple. FrontPage generates a TON of extra c**p that it throws in to a web page which usually has limited use on browsers other than Internet Explorer.

You can use Notepad++ to edit the HTML which color codes the HTML so it is easier to read. It also handles PHP, C, C++, etc.
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FrontPage writes a lot of Microsoft Schema code which only IE understands.  Also, there may be a problem with your hosting site not keeping the FP extensions up to date.

I imagine that your page is written using layers which more than likely uses absolute positioning.  There is no way to make a good flexible page with absolute positioning which will adjust itself to the browser's window size.  Adjusting to different screen resolutions is another matter.

I suggest using a free Visual Editor like NVU or Kompozer.

Ron
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Hi - I had the same problem. The reason is that the contents of the page are not 'locked' in place. Copy this code into a BLANK page in frontpage and then add your content into the text box and add background etc. Then it should be fine :)

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta content="en-gb" http-equiv="Content-Language" />

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />





</head>

<body bgcolor="silver" text="black" link="black" alink="black" vlink="black" background="" bgproperties=fixed>



<center>

<font face="myriad pro" size=+0>

<center>

</p></center>

</center>

</body>

</html>

Thats the code. Good luck - if you have any trouble then add additional details to your question =)
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