Use fixed width tables for your layout.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| Using Frontpage, how do I set the 800x600 size for all my web pages?
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| John Berg
| The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his
| absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must
| delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has
| ceased to be a great power among men. --W. Churchill
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| | >I would disagree w/ you comment that " the standard is to use the entire
| >browser window"
| > - look at the major sites, which do no do that
| >
| > With the growth of screen sizes & resolution, bigger is not better
| > - in fact most usability studies show that users have a difficult time
| > reading any page that spans more than is on a 8-1/2" page
| > width (< 800 px) (eye strain & loss of place in text)
| > - and users w/ larger screens tend not to run the browser in full screen
| > (they are running other windows on the rest of their new found desktop
| > screen space like messengers, entertainment, mail, etc)
| >
| > Even w/ CSS and Divs, I would stick to 800x600 (design for 760 max)
which
| > would put your readable content in the user friendlier
| > range
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| > | > | Hi John,
| > |
| > | By target do you mean new page browser windows? If so then you have to
| > use pop-up windows. If by targets you mean such things as
| > | _blank (a new window) then you'll have do that from the page that is
| > opened in the new browser window.
| > |
| > | Design use to enforce some fixed size to a web page but with today
| > browsers and CSS the standard is to use the entire browser
| > window
| > | and make the content conform to the size. For example, table-less
design
| > using CSS and Divs (layers).
| > |
| > | The font used by XP, FrontPage, and the browser are independent of
each
| > other.
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| > | Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97-'02
| > | J-Bots 2004 102 Components For FP
| > |
http://www.websunlimited.com
| > | FrontPage Add-ins Since '97 FP 2003 / 2002 / 2000 Compatible
| > |
| > | > | > Just moved to Frontpage 20003 and I seem to have lost control of
text
| > size in my internet explorer. Using Frontpage, how do I
| > | > set the page size of those pages going to my targets? Is the
approved
| > standard a 600x800 page? Is there a potential conflict
| > | > between setting text size on XP, Frontpage, Internet explorer?
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| > | > --
| > | > John Berg
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