FrontPage–sigh. I know I can slap a table into a page, but then it has the original page as a border around it. I just want to use that pencil to break the page ITSELF into sections: link bar on left running from the top down into infinity, a kind of banner at the top (but bordered on the left by that same link bar), and the basic content below this banner and to the right of the link bar.
Should be a piece of cake, but NOT in a MS product. Please help!
Thanks.
What you are thinking of can be done with a table, but I’m not sure how to explain it. I can say that to get rid of the border, just set the Border, cell padding and cell spacing properties to 0.
To make the table take up the entire page, just set the width of the table to 100% and then set the page margins to 0. You can do that by going to Page Properties and then going to the Margins tab. Part of your problem is that you’re using the pencil- I find it a lot easier to just make it manually and then merge cells.
I’ve done as you said, and it basically works, but in each cell there is a HUGE border on the right–so that if you try to center text it is really lopsided toward the left. And if you just write in the cell, there is about 1.5" margin on the right.
HELP!
Thanks.
Try making the right margin equal to 0 also. In Frontpage I think you have to do it manually, but it’s easy. Just view the html and add it in to the body tag like so:
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
The topmargin and leftmargin’s will already be there, and you might as well make the bottom margin 0 also. Try that.
Sounds to me like what you want are frames.
I haven’t got FrontPage right in front of me now, so I can’t give you procedurals, but what you need to do is create a series of framesets, each of which has a series of frames which imports a separate web page. The (highly over-simplified) HTML code for what you describe in your OP looks like this, but I know there is a way to do it more easily with FrontPage:
<html>
<head><title>My Frame Page</title>
</head>
<!–This sets up your thin link bar on the left and a wider area on the right -->
<frameset cols=“30%, 70%”>
<!–“myLinkBar.html” would be separate html file in the same location as this page which had your links on it -->
<frame name=“linkbar” src=“myLinkBar.html” />
<!–This second frameset divides the right hand 70% of the page into a small banner area at the top with a larger area at the bottom -->
<frameset rows=“20%, 80%”>
<!-- Here’s you banner, which can be a page containing the banner or the banner image itself -->
<frame name=“headbanner” src=“banner.jpg” />
<!-- This is the large main area of your page. “mainpage.html” would be another separate html file in the same location as this page. -->
<frame name=“mainpage” src=“mainpage.html” />
<!–Closing the frameset within a frameset -->
</frameset>
<!–Closing the frameset -->
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<!-- A non-frame version of the page goes here…or not -->
</body>
</noframes>
</html>
If you copy and paste the above into the code view of FrontPage, it should work, assuming of course, you have the other pages ready to go.
Now the trick is (using the names in the above example) to set up your “myLinkBar.html” file this way:
<html>
<head><title></title>
</head>
<body>
<a href=“http://www.whatever.com” target=“mainpage” />
<a href=“http://www.whatever2.com” target=“mainpage” />
<a href=“http://www.whatever3.com” target=“mainpage” />
<a href=“http://www.whatever4.com” target=“mainpage” />
</body>
</html>
This makes it so that the results of clicking the links appear in the main area of the page instead of over in the link bar.
Now that you know how to do this, I recommend against it. Frames can be a pain in the butt in some browsers, and can screw up people’s attempts to locate your page using search engines.