A little more information than provided by Eleanor:
The best way to design the "look" of your web pages is to
use Tables. Tables are supported by all browsers. Front
Page provides a thing called "absolute positioning" that
seems like it is designed just for your problem.
Unfortunately, absolute positioning is not implemented in
the same manner by all browsers. That is why you will
find that approach to NOT be recommended on this
newsgroup.
Back to Tables. Tables are just that ... something that
provides rows and columns into which you may place your
content (pictures, menus, verbage, etc.)
First sketch out the layout of your web page on a piece
of paper with various pieces of content represented as a
rectangular cell. Once you have done that you should
create a table on a blank web page with the requisite
numbers of rows and columns to contain the maximum
horizontal and veritcal content for your web page.
Cells within a table may be merged to create larger
cells. Consider web pages you have seen where
the "header" streches across the total horizontal
dimension of the screen. If the table below that requires
say 3 columns, you would merge those three into one cell
for your header. You can also merge adjacent vertical
cells if your site requires it.
If you have multiple pages on your site, the next step
would be to use the "template" created above and File |
Save As with different file names and Page Titles (right
click on the page and select Properties). You are then
ready to put the content in the various pages and hook
them together with hyperlinks.
Another thing you should consider is the use of Include
Pages (see Front Page help). This feature is good for the
menu and header table cell of your site. Let's take the
header as an example: say it consists of some title and a
logo type graphic side-by-side. On the template, you
would have this be one cell of the table layout described
above. You would then create another page (to be included
on all other pages in the "header" cell). This page would
be a two cell table with say the web site title on the
left and your logo graphic on the right. Use the Insert |
Web component | Included content | Page to insert the
include page within the cell of your template page. The
beauty of the include page comes when you want to change
your header. Make your changes on the Include page and
Front Page will reflect that change in the rest of your
pages for you.
Play around with this a bit and come back here if you
need some more help.
