I have several questions.

First, the site is a work in progress so disregard the copy and also the site name which doesn't match the URL which is www.maximizeonlinesales.com. I found a better URL and I haven't put it on a server yet.

1. It does seem that my formating gets changed often By FP2000, even without my messing with the HTML. There seems to be two places it happens often.

One is in the top headline (Visitors2Customers.com) where it stops being flush with the left border and becomes indented a bit. It also happens in the 2nd panel. It's supposed to remain flush along the right side of the screen (as in the FAQ page) but it too creeps out a bit (as in the Index page and others). The other day I made a bunch of changes per my web guy re: the "<DIV id=heading>" to fix the first problem and removing the "width=???" to solve the second one. I did that and everything was fine. A few days later I noticed that both problems returned. He believes FP is adding markup. Why does this keep happening and what can I do to prevent it?

2. The site is setup using CSS (which I don't understand) and the main text is I believe in 12 pt according to the CSS. Yet in the shared border at the bottom of the page (which wasn't designed by my web guy because he doesn't have FP and I believe isn't governed by CSS) the links are also in 12 pt., yet they are so much bigger than the main body text. Why is this and how can I have my main text the same size as the bottom links?

3. I have a great deal of trouble copying and pasting in FP. For example, if I try to take and highlight all of the text in the second panel to paste into another webpage and all of a sudden it highlights the entire page. It's impossible to just highlight the text I want. The same think happens in the main body of text as well. Any ideas on how to deal with this?

Thanks for your help.

I'm using exactly the same program. I think you have to get really into the Normal stuff first. Then, into the HTML. I use tables and div tags becuase without them, FP looks crap and acts crap. To make the text and links the sam size, highlight the whole area, and change it al to something like Arial, then size 2 (whatever pt's it is). Then, change your header to the size you want it. I try to avoid CSS, as FP 2000 seems go stupid when it comes to the CSS part. I leave CSS, and do it the old fashioned way. To highlight certain parts, highlight a part of it (a word), then go into the HTML area, it should show you the bit that you have highlighted. Now, go to the end part where you want to copy and start highlighting it from the end onwards, going steady. Hope this helps.



mik

Yes, your formatting does get changed. FP 2000 thinks it knows what you want to do and changes your HTML for you! Isn't that great!

I know I have been talking about FP 2003 a lot in my other posts, but it really like it. If you can get your hands on a copy, you can turn the auto-correct HTML off. That way if you prefer to code your own way, FrontPage won't correct you. Also split-screen mode lets you code while your looking at your WYSIWYG. How cool is that!

I haven't used FP 2000 in a while but I know there is opening and closing tags you can put in the body of your page so that FrontPage will not correct your HTML. Maybe somebody out there knows it.