How to slap Frontpage into submission?
Does anyone know how to change the formatting of the default blank new page in Frontpage 2002. What I mean is I know how to change it, but I have to redo it again each time I create a new page & it's starting to really bug me.
Does anyone know how to change the formatting of the default blank new page in Frontpage 2002 [Office XP]. What I mean is I know how to change it, but I have to redo it again each time I create a new page & it's starting to really bug me. Is it possible to save-over the template or whatever for this default new page, and if so, how?
Thanks in advance.
edit: basically the thing that bugs me is that even though it appears to be set to single line spacing, you have to actually go into the paragraph properties & set the Before & after Spacing settings to 0 as they [by default] have no value @ all.
Thanks in advance.
edit: basically the thing that bugs me is that even though it appears to be set to single line spacing, you have to actually go into the paragraph properties & set the Before & after Spacing settings to 0 as they [by default] have no value @ all.
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Oh come on, surely someone else has had this problem & has managed to find a solution to it???
Having not received any help I decided to see if I could @ least see what FP was doing differently in terms of HTML codes/tags.
I made 3 test pages [2 with Frontpage, & 1 with Netscape composer] with just some lines of random letters.
I won't bother pasting in the meta, title, header & body tags, as whilst my knowledge of actual HTML code is fairly limited I know enough to see that they aren't relevant here. The code view of the 3 tests is as follows:
Composer
ehaksdhfskfdgjsdfg
<br>sdflglsdhfg
<br>sdfgksdfgh
<br>sdgklsdfg
<br>dfldglksdfg
<br>sdlfkgnklsdfg
<br>
Frontpage in its default form
<p>igfjkdkgjjdfgh</p>
<p>dfg</p>
<p>hldkfghldfgh</p>
<p>fdgh;'gh</p>
<p>fh;fgh</p>
<p>fdh;fg</p>
<p>h</p>
Note: For those that don't know or who didn't read my previous post the above code leaves a line between each line of text - every time I press return it's creating a new paragraph & leaving a space between it, instead of just creating a new line.
Frontpage after I've set paragraph spacing to 0 (has no value @ all by default)
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">fdfgsdfg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">dlkfglasdjng</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sadlgflasjfdlkgj</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sdlf;lasjdkflj</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">asdfklkasdlg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">s'djfljslfkdjg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sadgfsad</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">gl;aksfg</p>
WTF??? What is MS playing @? anyone know how to make it do it normally???
PLEASE???
Having not received any help I decided to see if I could @ least see what FP was doing differently in terms of HTML codes/tags.
I made 3 test pages [2 with Frontpage, & 1 with Netscape composer] with just some lines of random letters.
I won't bother pasting in the meta, title, header & body tags, as whilst my knowledge of actual HTML code is fairly limited I know enough to see that they aren't relevant here. The code view of the 3 tests is as follows:
Composer
ehaksdhfskfdgjsdfg
<br>sdflglsdhfg
<br>sdfgksdfgh
<br>sdgklsdfg
<br>dfldglksdfg
<br>sdlfkgnklsdfg
<br>
Frontpage in its default form
<p>igfjkdkgjjdfgh</p>
<p>dfg</p>
<p>hldkfghldfgh</p>
<p>fdgh;'gh</p>
<p>fh;fgh</p>
<p>fdh;fg</p>
<p>h</p>
Note: For those that don't know or who didn't read my previous post the above code leaves a line between each line of text - every time I press return it's creating a new paragraph & leaving a space between it, instead of just creating a new line.
Frontpage after I've set paragraph spacing to 0 (has no value @ all by default)
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">fdfgsdfg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">dlkfglasdjng</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sadlgflasjfdlkgj</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sdlf;lasjdkflj</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">asdfklkasdlg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">s'djfljslfkdjg</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">sadgfsad</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">gl;aksfg</p>
WTF??? What is MS playing @? anyone know how to make it do it normally???
PLEASE???
This is because hitting "enter" signals the end of a paragraph, so Frontpage uses the <p></p> tags. A <br> is simply a line break, but keeps in the same "paragraph". It's really a matter of convention, but I prefer the way Frontpage handles it. Not that I am endorsing Frontpage - I personally use either Homesite or Dreamweaver, depending on how much I feel like getting my hands in the code. Anyway, if you want Frontpage to go down only one line (e.g. use a <br>), try hitting "shift+enter".
