Re: FN-FORUM FrontPage and style sheet quickie?

date posted 26th July 2001 18:03

220K..... can we see it, I may be able to improve on that size for you.

Paul

P J White
www.BW3.co.uk
Digital Media Stuff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM FrontPage and style sheet quickie?


> I've got the size of the file down to 220kb, so the size is on the
outskirts
> of acceptable(grayscale would bring it down more but that would be dull).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Vendetta Sales
> and Admin
> Sent: 26 July 2001 11:19
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM FrontPage and style sheet quickie?
>
>
> Wouldn't that be very slow (picture of mountain) to load as a background
> over a dial up? Could you persuade him to use the pic as a regular
> graphic. I have the design sense of a dead flea, so maybe one of the
> artistic types could suggest something.
>
> Kathy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 26 July 2001 09:08
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM FrontPage and style sheet quickie?
>
>
> > Thanks Vendetta
> >
> > I have a client that wants to use FrontPage to maintain his web after
> I've
> > finished. Also he's a climber and wants to use a picture of himself,
> on the
> > top of a mountain, as a background. the only way this looks ok is if
> the
> > background is fixed.
> >
> > The other problem is a large number of his clients are still using
> older
> > legacy systems ( he's a school teacher as well) which means i.e. and
> > Netscape 4. Hence the problem.
> >
> > What if I just removed the background image and replaced it with
> colour for
> > these browsers? (just thinking out loud
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Vendetta Sales
> > and Admin
> > Sent: 25 July 2001 22:36
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Frontpage and sytle sheet quickie?
> >
> >
> > BTW that is exactly the same as typing the text into the style sheet
> > yourself, but slower.
> >
> > body {
> > background-image: url(whatever);
> > background-repeat: repeat whatever;
> > background-attachment: fixed;
> > }
> >
> > Yeah, the fixed stuff only works for browsers that support CSS2
> properly
> > (IE4x isn't reliable on that) which is Opera 5, NN6 and IE5x as far as
> I
> > can tell. Do you need FP extensions for the other stuff to work? I
> must
> > say that fixed backgrounds make me feel seasick, but that's my weird
> > eyesight.
> >
> > I tend to make sure it looks right with valid CSS and passable with
> no
> > CSS at all and leave it at that--but I always know what the platform
> > will be as I only do Help and Intranet sites (MUCH easier!)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Sent: 25 July 2001 21:50
> > Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Frontpage and sytle sheet quickie?
> >
> >
> > > Thanks Kathy.
> > >
> > > I've tried the style sheet approach [background:fixed} this doesn't
> > seem to
> > > work. They way I found that does work is calling up the css from
> > within
> > > frontpage. Then choose style - modify -format -border -then select
> > the
> > > shading tab. In the shading tab their is an entry box for adding a
> > > background image. After this their are four other options -
> vertical
> > > position - hztl pos -repeat (set this to no repeat) and scroll style
> > (set to
> > > fixed).
> > >
> > > A very long way round but does mean that the css is set up for all
> > pages -
> > > but the fixed background only works in ie4.01 and 5.
> > >
> > > There is another way around this but it means handwriting the code
> for
> > each
> > > window:-
> > >
> > > (found this in .net issue)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >