George:
Thank you for coming to the aid of a newbie and reading with a newbie's eye. I
will NEVER mention fp again to this group! You are correct the others didn't
really answered my questions. Thank you again for answering them. I'm dealing with
the problems. I've looked at the code and see what needs to be removed. I think I
will just start over, it might take less time.
"newbie"........Janice
Rainmaker wrote:
> At 10:41 AM 6/24/1998 -0500, Adam Edwards so eloquently stated:
> >At 08:47 AM 6/24/98 -0500, janice williams wrote:
> >>Ok, Ok,ok......FP just went out the window...........Janice
> >
> >Don't you just hate coming in at the end of a conversation. Janice, you're
> >right about a few things. :) I'd prolly feel hurt too. People are a
> >little quick to jump on you for you using FP. Unfortunately, they didn't
> >mention that most have them also probably have a copy of it or a demo on
> >their shelves. It's been tried and discarded by most people here because
> >of the extra code it puts in and the dependency said code seems to cause on
> >Microsoft products. (FP looks best on an MS server with an MS browser)
> >
>
> Not necessarily true. Our server is an Apache and we don't have
> the FP extensions, yet FP works well. FP generates a number of
> excess directories and other crap (for lack of a better word).
> They generate six directories beginning with _vti which are not
> need to execute. In each sum directory they generate a _vti_cnf
> which you also don't need to run.
>
> When you FTP to your site all you need are the html programs in
> the directory, the images sub directory (without the _vti_cnf and
> assuming you store your images there) and the _private directory
> which contains you CSS stuff, i.e., colors, navigation bar, header, logo, etc.
> Also, if you have any CGI scripts they need to be ftp'd to the
> cgi-bin or cgi-local area at you site.
>
> Without all that other crap, the site is very manageable in size.
>
> >These people are about the best group you'll find on the 'Net for many
> >things except every now and then they don't reread their posts with a
> >newbie's eye to see how it 'could' sound. :) I'm sure they are glad to
> >have your input and when time allows they'll tell their own horror stories
> >as to newbies.
> >
> >I'm not sure but I don't think anyone actually answered your question about
> >FrontPage. Beyond the extra code and all. If your question was, as I read
> >it, about why fonts look different and text alignment is off, Deal with
> >it. Nobody will have the same fonts/text size you have. (or at least they
> >don't HAVE to) If you want more control over that then you should specify
> >a base font and font size. That assuming you don't want to use CSS. (Few
> >people find the extra time to do it a worthwhile investment.)
> >
>
> The problem with the font is you probably used the "default"
> which means the default will be used on any machine. You can
> change the default to a particular font, i.e., Times Roman, Arial, etc.
>
> George
>
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