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I am currently making a web page using FrontPage 2003 and seeking some assistance.

In most websites (more like all), I notice that no matter the monitor resolution, the contents of the webpage seem centered, like there is an equal space between the beginning and end. However, in my current page, no matter the monitor resolution, the contents remain stuck to the left, which I consider a problem. How exactly do I go about solving this issue?

Hell no!

>>Manhandles topic into Programming and websites

I don't think anyone here uses the visual function of frontpage to make the websites, you're better off learning the code, then we could help you.

So far I tried the code, but I didn't really get what I wanted. Seeing as how my wording may be a bit faulty, I threw a visualization together.


The black box is basically the monitor set for a resoultion higher than the page size. The green box is the webpage itself. If the monitor was at a lower resolution, the green box would fit the black box.

Use fluid width, not fixed width.

For layouts which use tables, just put the align="center" attribute to the table tag.

If you aren't using tables, you have to wrap the whole inside of the body tag with a div tag and set the have this attribute to the div: style="margin:auto;text-align:left;". Then, you add this attribute to the body tag: style="text-align:center;"

These are the two ways I know and use to center content in the browser window. The way to center with the div tag is fancier because Internet Explorer doesn't support the right way to do it, and does it in a stupid way instead.



This is WRONG, it works with both. Fixed width is better anyway.

align="center" is depricated, not recommended. Other then that, Fatimid hit it on the head with a very large and heavy warhammer.

Fixed width better than fluid...

Why would anyone use fixed excessively? I only use it because my site doesn't depend on resolution, but since most sites do, fixed shouldn't be used, except for height. For width, you use %s.

I use fixed only for the outer width and nav bar because I know that the layout will stay the same however I try to display my page. If I resize the browser window, it won't just screw up or get so cramped it's useless.

Anyway, the max width I use is 760 pixels, so unless you use 640x480 pixels, which my crappy video card that can't display most games from after 2001-2002 doesn't support anyway (starts at 800x600), it still displays properly.

I do use percentages in tables and main content areas you know, it's not like I'm against them either. I think we're in a huge misunderstanding here.

It seems I'm going off topic here, this is my last post about this unless Coddox posts a need for more help.

if you want to make really good webpages, what you should do is type it up in notepad, learn how to use html and css as a good start. xhtml and xml are good too

Do you even know what XML is, 7-7?

Notepad = suckz.

I love Notepad! All it needs is some auto-indentation and syntax highlighting.

Is it that hard to press tab?

Anyways, Kubuntu's notepad equivalent is perfect. Line numbers, and highlighting. <3

Notepad can only handle a certain number of lines, wordpad can handle infinite amount of lines.

You don't use XP, do you? The XP Notepad recieved many great updates, including a bottomless edit control.

I hate tabs, Syphon. I don't like line numbers, either.

lol My teacher at school told me that notepad was the most expensive html editor.

Kate > gEdit when it comes to linux.
ConTEXT > Notepad on windows.

Kate is almost an IDE xD
Anyway, most text editors in Linux have highlighting for several languages, on Windows i use Notepad++, which has been good enough for me, but I'm on Linux most of the time anyway, and use Quanta+ for my pages, it's good stuff.

Never used ConTEXT... i guess i will try it next time i boot into Windows -sigh-.

Anyway, any text editor with syntax highlighting is good enough, but in my experience Quanta+ gave me tools no other IDE gave me, also, DreamWeaver is quite slow in my computer, Quanta+ takes a lot of resources too, but not THAT much as DW...

Stuff like parameters of a PHP function, automatic closing of tags when making them(Like, i type <table> and it automatically makes <TR><TD></TD></TR></table>) and easy access to a project's files are invaluable when dealing with big pages.

Anyway, the most valuable thing an editing tool of this type must give you is a good syntax highlighting, though, other tools are also quite valuable.

Edit: Woops, this topic wasn't about this xD sorry... anyway, i just use align="center" and it works, but if i would make something more "css-based", i guess i would try fatimid08's technique.

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson editor is pretty good for coding and works for most types of coding