>I read several different comments, here and at WebConnect, that FrontPage was a nice, simple and powerful enough page designer for uncomplicated stuff.
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>Having installed it with Office2000 I thought I'd take a shot at learning how to make a web page. I had edited existing pages before, but never made one from scratch.
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>Anyway, I fired it up and went to its Help, looking to see how to start. With my usual aplomb, I didn't find what I was looking for.
>But the 'design surface' looked wordish so I started typing. Eventually found some form "controls" (needed to make an EditBox) and noticed a "Label" control too. So, I surmised, that typing I had just done, that I thought was going to be a label, really wasn't one.
>So I tried to make a Label and, after much frustration, came upon a highly non-intuitive way to do it. It seemed that one always has to define a "Label" in association with some other 'action' control.
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>Anyway, I finally got several labels and fields laid out, went to preview, and found stuff considerably out-of-whack compared to the 'design' view.
>I went to adjust things. Boy, that was some kind of job!@$!#@!$!#!@!#!$!#!@!
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>My question:
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>What is the CORRECT way to make fine adjustments in the position/size of things on the form.
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>I guess I have one other question. . . is there some way to make the 'design' area much more closely resemble the preview?
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>Thanks in advance
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>Jim

Jim;

I do not use Front Page but do a lot of web development. I use Visual Interdev and write all code to create controls. I never use the DTC’s (Design Time Controls)!!! By using absolute positioning you can place what you want where you want it. If you are using I.E. 5.X that works well – with Netscape things are not too good. The way many people do this type of thing is to use a table to anchor objects so it will work with Netscape browsers.

If I can help you with code examples let me know. Also let me know what your web page content is (just html or data) so I can have a better idea of what you would like to do.

Tom