Alterering Viewing Size

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barrie

I use Publisher 2003 and am designing my own website for the first time.
(I'm not technologically inclined but I know enough to be dangerous.) For
the layout, I did a custom size (in pixels). When I view the page on the web
in preview, it looks fine. But when I close my sidebar (with the list of my
bookmarks) in Firefox or IE, my webpage does not expand to fit the page.
Instead, it simply moves to the left and a large part of the right side of
the screen in simply blank. Does anyone know how to change the settings in
publisher so that the size of my website, when viewed by others, will expand
and contract properly to account for whether the viewer uses a side bar or
not in their browser? I appreciate the help. Thanks!
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

You cannot create a fluid web design with Publisher - it only creates fixed
width left justified webs...you "may" be able to tweak it so it centers but
it will still be fixed width.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression






| I use Publisher 2003 and am designing my own website for the first time.
| (I'm not technologically inclined but I know enough to be dangerous.) For
| the layout, I did a custom size (in pixels). When I view the page on the
web
| in preview, it looks fine. But when I close my sidebar (with the list of
my
| bookmarks) in Firefox or IE, my webpage does not expand to fit the page.
| Instead, it simply moves to the left and a large part of the right side of
| the screen in simply blank. Does anyone know how to change the settings
in
| publisher so that the size of my website, when viewed by others, will
expand
| and contract properly to account for whether the viewer uses a side bar or
| not in their browser? I appreciate the help. Thanks!
| --
| Thanks very much!!
| Barrie
 
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DavidF

Publisher produces fixed width pages, that are left justified by design. If
you want variable width, you will need to switch to a different program.

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

If you want to center your pages, you can manually edit the html code of
each *.htm file (each web page) each time you update them. This will not
"stick" in the Publisher file, and thus must be done each time you make a
change in the Pub file and republish. This may make it impractical unless
you are comfortable editing the code each time.

Open the index.htm file in NotePad and right after </head> and underneath
the <body> tag string, type or copy and paste the following code after
changing the width to the width of your page:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="760"
align="center">
<tr>
<td>

------------------------------------

ABOVE the </body> tag at the end of the page, type or paste the following:

</td>
</tr>
</table>


You will need to repeat this with each *.htm file in the index_files folder,
and you can then upload those files. And as I said, you have to do this each
time you modify your Pub file and produce new .htm files.

There is also a way to semi-automate this process, but I won't go into that
at this point.

If you find all this too tedious, then work with the left justification.
Read the article provided. Use a background color or image to fill the
padding. Perhaps use a 984 pixel width page which is the largest suggested
in Pub 2007, so that the amount of padding will be minimal. If designed
correctly a left justified page can look great and in general will be a
whole lot easier to manage using Publisher.

DavidF
 

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