FrontPage - I must be missing something
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I'm making a simple website for a customer using FP 2003. Not unreasonably, I want to assign the same background colour to every page in the web - try as I might, I can't see how to do this and Help isn't any help.
It can't be difficult surely? A checkbox saying 'apply to all pages' would be the thing...
TIA
It can't be difficult surely? A checkbox saying 'apply to all pages' would be the thing...
TIA
Add the following line to the <head> of each page:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="formats.css">
Add the following attribute to the <body> tag, so that it looks like this:
<body class="bg">
Create a text file in the root directory. Add the following line to that empty file:
.bg { background-color:#FFFFFF }
Put the hex-number for your desired background colour instead of FFFFFF. Change this value, and all pages will get the new bg-colour.
Save it as formats.css
Note that the link href in the <head> must be adapted, when both files are not located in the same directory.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="formats.css">
Add the following attribute to the <body> tag, so that it looks like this:
<body class="bg">
Create a text file in the root directory. Add the following line to that empty file:
.bg { background-color:#FFFFFF }
Put the hex-number for your desired background colour instead of FFFFFF. Change this value, and all pages will get the new bg-colour.
Save it as formats.css
Note that the link href in the <head> must be adapted, when both files are not located in the same directory.
I did a websearch on Frontpage stylesheet, and it came up with some links that explain how to work with FrontPage and stylesheets. www.oznet.ksu.edu/webbuilder/frontpage/general/fp_css.asp
www.uwec.edu/help/Fpage00/css.htm
As far as I can see, it is called creating templates (haven't read through the links
). So you possibly can create one individual template in FP, and then assign it to all single pages you create!?
Might be a direction to investigate further...
[quote=AJ ;-)]
Thought this was going to be a thread on why Frontpage was so much more difficult to use than Dreamweaver.
Any good tutorial websites you can recommend?
[/quote]
As Luca said, FrontPage is quite intuitive if you can use Word - it does the same sorts of things in the same sort of way. Try inserting a 'theme' for quick idiot-proof results (Insert/Theme). Also use View/Navigation to see your web like a family tree, and add pages from the left by dragging and dropping. Right-click to rename etc, just like Word.
I'm a self-confessed web-numpty and to me html might as well be Chinese, but I can work FP. (I looked at Adobe GoLive and my brain just isn't sliced that way!)
Thought this was going to be a thread on why Frontpage was so much more difficult to use than Dreamweaver. Any good tutorial websites you can recommend?
[/quote] As Luca said, FrontPage is quite intuitive if you can use Word - it does the same sorts of things in the same sort of way. Try inserting a 'theme' for quick idiot-proof results (Insert/Theme). Also use View/Navigation to see your web like a family tree, and add pages from the left by dragging and dropping. Right-click to rename etc, just like Word.
I'm a self-confessed web-numpty and to me html might as well be Chinese, but I can work FP. (I looked at Adobe GoLive and my brain just isn't sliced that way!)
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