If anyone could help me with any of these FP 2000 ?'s it would be greatly appreciated.
1.) The Normal View, Preview, and then Browser Preview’s all show different alignment of text and pictures. Is this Normal?What’s going on?
2.) I cannot freely move text and pictures around on the page. Everything I bring in has to be moved by spaces and returns which doesn’t produce nice alignment at all. Am I doing something wrong or is there no way to place objects wherever I want on the page just by dragging and dropping??
Those are my 2 major questions for now…I havent been able to find good answers in FP books or online anywhere. Thanks for the help in advance!
“Is this normal?” in the sense that is it a normal way for humans to do things? Absolutely not! :mad:
If you mean ‘is this how FP 2K normally does things?’ then yes.
HTML is weird. It’s not like a word processor. Text and pictures all have to be ‘anchored’ to things and their default ‘anchoring’ isn’t always what you’d expect. Basically HTML just isn’t as specific as a word processor is about formatting. So the same code will give different results with different browser window sizes or settings etc. Part of the utopian wonder (i.e. big pain in the ass) that is the world wide web…
That’s normal. It has to do with the size of the screen. I’m guessing that when you use FP, you don’t use the entire window for the display. When you switch to your Web Browser, you are. Since HTML reflows text according to the window size, you’re going to see slightly different alignments. There are also differences between the preview and normal view, which is the reason why you’re given the preview option.
More HTML. You’re limited by the HTML code. If you want to try aligning them more to your liking, use tables (purists think this is bad form for some reason, but it’s a perfectly acceptable way t get around the limitations in HTML in design).