tables for newbie

[Lenny]

I've been tasked to create a webpage for one of our groups in the company and
while not new to design, am a real newbie to FrontPage.

I'm very familiar with Word tables but am about to howl at the way tables
work (misnomer?) in FrontPage. I'm having trouble creating juxtapositions of
the column rows, much like Excel spreadsheets. I want to create the look of
a 3-column format, narrow button bar on left, separated by small gutter
column, next column is wide, followed by another gutter column, and the a
narrow column the same width as the first.

So far - so good (not)
1. column 1 has 27 rows (for buttons)
2. column 3 has photos and text (with some mouseovers)
3. column 5 has photo, text and several buttons at bottom

Now the questions.....
1. Can the row height in column 1 be adjusted independently of rows 2-5?
(Here's that juxtapostion thing going on!)
2. Text and graphics seem to 'crowd' the left margin of the cell. I know I
can use indents, but there seems to be some 'padding' on the right side of
all cells that I can't get rid of.
3. Once text and graphics are in the cell, I can't seem to use the cell
tools to make the cell height smaller.

Can someone help?

Best regards... Lenny

 

[Murray]

Word tables and HTML tables are as similar as fish and bicycles. If you
approach your task with a Word mentality, you will have oodles of trouble.

1. Can the row height in column 1 be adjusted independently of rows 2-5?
(Here's that juxtapostion thing going on!)

Certainly. CSS would do that job for you, or failing familiarity with CSS,
a shim image would work.

2. Text and graphics seem to 'crowd' the left margin of the cell. I know
I
can use indents, but there seems to be some 'padding' on the right side of
all cells that I can't get rid of.

Table cells have default spacing and padding. To see which this might be,
we'd have to see your code.

3. Once text and graphics are in the cell, I can't seem to use the cell
tools to make the cell height smaller.

Most likely because something in the cell is preventing you from doing that.