Absolute Positioning Issue With Free Banner Web Hosting? :(

[chuck888]

Hi

I am a total newbie to website publishing, though went through a wizar
on Publisher 2003 and created a simple site. I uploaded it to godadd
and have a free website hosting account with them, where they place
banner at the top. Once I uploaded the site, it is positioned to th
right oftheir banner. Here is there response:

Why does my Free Ad-Supported hosted site not display correctly?
Last Updated: March 10, 2006 2:33 PM Print This Article

"Your site will display content to the right or left of the ad banne
if your HTML code uses absolute positioning. Absolute positionin
allows you to specify the exact placement of an HTML element on th
page. Because absolute positioning conflicts with the placement of th
ad banner, it will cause your site to display incorrectly and shoul
not be used."

Question is how do I not use absolute positioning to avoid thi
problem? IN addition can I center my web page using a program such as
'replace in files' as listed in this forum. I tried but it does no
seem to work in Publisher 2003.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards

Jef

 

[DavidF]

Interesting response from GoDaddy. Please post the website URL.

If the site is being framed, then you probably will have to switch to a
different host, or pay for hosting which does not use the banner. You can't
change the way that Publisher writes HTML code.

If you want the page centered then chances are you will need to either
simulate it, or switch to an different program. Publisher produces static,
left justified pages. If you want dynamic pages, you will need to use a
different program. Perhaps use the GoDaddy free templates...

Read: Understanding background padding in a Publisher web (aka white space)
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80563.aspx

DavidF

 

[chuck888]

Hi David

Thanks for your feedback.

This is the GoDaddy Lin
http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=1152&topic_id=243&&

Your link and article is useful and tried it, certainly better tha
having a white space. Even though I still would like to centre, ho
would one simulate that? In addition is this forum centred or stretche
as I am not opposed to having my page take up the whole screen.

Thanks again

Jef

 

[DavidF]

Jeff,

Sorry I was not more clear. When I asked for the URL, I meant the URL for
your website. What I wanted to check, you can do yourself. Open you website
in IE, then go to View > Source. NotePad will open and show you the HTML
code for your site. Look for references to being framed. If it is, then
there is a code snippet that was provided by another user you can try that
might help. Use the insert HTML code fragment tool in Publisher to insert
the following code:


<TITLE>Can't be in a frame</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers

if (top.location != self.location) {
top.location = self.location
}
// End hiding script from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>


Just copy and use Ctrl + V keys to paste it into the code fragment dialog
box. Then move that fragment box somewhere on your page where it doesn't
overlap any other design element, produce new HTML (Publish to the Web), and
upload that to your webspace after deleting the old files. It might help
with the banner issue. If it doesn't then as I said before, your only option
is probably to find different free space, or spend a couple bucks a month
and pay for hosting, which you will want to do eventually anyway.

Centering...go back to that article by David Bartosik, and read it again.
Therein lies the simulated centering approach I was talking about. As per
this forum...I read this newsgroup via OE, so can't say for sure what you
are looking at. However, I would imagine that you are looking at a variable
page, as explained in David's article. Once again, if you want a dynamic
page, then Publisher is not going to work.

DavidF