Why do normal and preview show different web page formats?

K

Keith Salmon

When designing a web page, I use the normal function. It is supposed to be
wysiwyg.

If I press the preview button, the page appears completely different.

Why?
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Use File | Preview In Browser to see what your web will look like in a
browser.
 
J

Joe Rohn

Hi Keith,

It is mostly a situation of becoming more familiar with what will be seen in
different views. Working in normal view allows you to add text, code,
images, etc. but will not give you a total snapshot of how everything will
look. Doing a preview...gives you a little bit better idea as to how things
will look. Doing a Preview in Browser is the most accurate as to how your
page will look in that particular browser. Once you become accustomed to
this, you will find that doing a Preview in Browser (after saving your page)
is your best bet for how it will be seen!
 
K

Keith Salmon

Dear Joe

Thank you for your email and helpful comments, but I think the problem is
far deeper than that.

The views of normal and preview are vastly different, not just slightly
different. Text wraps from one line to another (when it shouldn't), areas of
the screen cannot be written to (but can in normal mode), and I'm only
talking here of simple, basic functionality.

Let's post a picture and make it a background. It shows parts of the picture
around the picture. Reduce the operating system's display resolution and
front page shows less of the extra pictures. Reduce it further and front page
does not display all of the picture. (I can alter the height and width html
code which corrects the picture framing but this is not a good solution to
the majority of people who do not know html, and what's the point of having
an html editor if it doesn't work? I might as well write the code from
scratch)

It seems clear to me that front page does its own thing without regard to
its operating environment and, quite frankly, that is not good enough these
days; (these are not the days of Wordstar.)

So, maybe I should ask, should I upgrade from front page 2000 to 2003? Will
this cure the problem? Or should I move to a completely different product
such as Dreamweaver or Coldfusion?

Any ideas please?

Regards

Keith
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

You can't do any editing in Preview, it's just that...a basic Preview.

Background behavior you discribe sounds normal for a bg image...it will tile
unless you tell it not to with CSS.
 
K

KatWoman

because each brand of browser and the person's monitor resolution color and
size, font size settings etc. will change the way a page looks. HTML is a
fluid language not all things on the page are fixed in place.
Pros have to see the page preview in several brands of browsers not just
one.
 
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