You really can't and maintain any sort of compatibility. HTML is a markup
language, which means that it basically describes the content of the
document, it is not a layout language, which would let you move objects like
in Quark, PageMaker, Illustrator, etc.... The trick to web design is to
think in tables. Basically you carve the page up into tables and place items
in the appropriate table cells. This is a bit of an art to get layouts right
and often involve tables inside tables inside tables and combining cells
etc.... This isn't really a limitation of FrontPage, it's a limitation of
web design in general.
You can try to use absolute positioning by enabling the CSS 2 positioning
option under Tools | Page Options | Authoring in FP 2003 (in previous
versions the tab was called Compatibility). Basically though, this feature
may not look right depending upon the browser that views the site since not
all browser support this feature, and not all may support it the same way.
Best to avoid it.
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
