Adding picture into text box

[gotFusion LLC]

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Css is much simpler once you understand the concept.

Concept: create a formatting file and associate it with a tag or pseudo tag.

Go to style view.

Set your font in the body

Set the size, color, weight (bold), decloration (italic, underlined, etc),
and positioning (justification) in each tag <p> and all the headers <h1
through h6>

Then in page view just select the tag from the drop down. NEVER use the
page view formatting tools as this creates inline html formatting. If you
need a page specific style you can create one from Tools > Manage Styles
menu option. This tutorial goes over making a link pseudo class and will
give you the location and steps (just ignore the specifics of the link
declaration, select page instead of site for page level formatting, and
substitute your needs in place of the link example).
http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4045

You will need to clean off all of your inline formatting otherwise you will
end up with a mess. (see attached gif for how to)

Formatting cascades down.... What this means is the definition that is
listed first has the least weight and next and next in order of load.
Bottom (or most important) is page level then code line level. SO... the
last one seen is the most important and will override all others up the
list. You use this to your advantage by making your global statements at
the top (like font in the body) then down to the tag level with size and
color, then down to the page level with classes you can apply using divs,
spans, and modifying tags on a line per line basis.

Don't let this overwhelm you. Start simple. 1. make all your formatting
changes in style view. 2. never use the formatting options on the text
properties palette (select your predefined tags using the drop down box...
the one in the paragraph area). Once you understand and have used css for a
very short while you will be a lot happier as things stay more consistent

--

Mike - (a.k.a. turtle) - gotFusion Extended Support
www.gotfusion.com




"dwolf" <jojonospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hm8m29$bnb$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com. ..
> Hi Mike...
> Well no stupid questions... right ?
>
> Ahhh..... found the alignment after all... looks like I should get it to
> look the way she wants...
> The CSS is more complicated to do ?
>

[Twayne]

In news:hm72ff$jo6$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com,
dwolf <jojonospam@hotmail.com> typed:
> When I bring it over to the text box it's overlapping and we know NOF
> does not like that.

Sorry; just offered it as a possible solution because it worked for me. I'm
sure there are things that would mess it up.

I've had good success with it. Just crop it closely in your editor and it
should look good. Set its background to transparent or whatever you use in
the text box for consistancy.
Oh: You don't put it IN the text box; You precede the text box with it, and
it looks like part of the presentation. I used it to create fancy letters
for the first letter of a paragraph.

<graphic>|text box|

Twayne


>
> "Twayne" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:hm70r2$iom$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com. ..
>> In news:hm6ujt$hat$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com,
>> dwolf <jojonospam@hotmail.com> typed:
>>> Client would like to have her handmade W used as the first letter of
>>> the text on this page...
>>> http://webpages.charter.net/joel40/
>>>
>>> I always spend some time before asking... but could not figure it
>>> out....
>>> Thanks
>>> Joel
>>
>> Use an image as the first letter or wherever you want the "W". A
>> .png will likely give you the smallest filesize, plus allow
>> transparency like a .gif so you don't see the background or borders
>> around the letter. HTH,
>>
>> Twayne
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
>> through personal experience does not become a
>> part of the moral tissue.

[Twayne]

I concur with the CSS comments here. w3schools.com
(http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp) has what I think is a great tutorial
for getting going with CSS. You just call for the CSS file in any file
where you want to use it. All the coding stays in the CSS file and you just
call for it by name wherever you want to use it.
You can use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all
at once; insures site consistancy from page to page and handy like Master
Borders; change the CSS code and wherever it's used in the pages also
changes.

It looks a little strange at first but it quickly grows on you and
"feels" a lot like HTML once you get going. You set up your text styles in a
CSS file and then when you need one of them, as in say a Title, you simply
call it by its name instead of repeating all the code each time at every
location where you want to use a Title text format.

Check out the w3schools link; it's pretty well written IMO, and there are
many more tutorials around the 'net for CSS.

HTH,

Twayne





In news:A921.1267195885.41@gfwebforum.com,
gotFusion LLC <newsgroup-support@autoresponder-gotfusion.com> typed:
> ..
> Css is much simpler once you understand the concept.
>
> Concept: create a formatting file and associate it with a tag or
> pseudo tag.
>
> Go to style view.
>
> Set your font in the body
>
> Set the size, color, weight (bold), decloration (italic, underlined,
> etc), and positioning (justification) in each tag <p> and all the
> headers <h1 through h6>
>
> Then in page view just select the tag from the drop down. NEVER use
> the page view formatting tools as this creates inline html
> formatting. If you need a page specific style you can create one
> from Tools > Manage Styles menu option. This tutorial goes over
> making a link pseudo class and will give you the location and steps
> (just ignore the specifics of the link declaration, select page
> instead of site for page level formatting, and substitute your needs
> in place of the link example).
> http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4045
>
> You will need to clean off all of your inline formatting otherwise
> you will end up with a mess. (see attached gif for how to)
>
> Formatting cascades down.... What this means is the definition that
> is listed first has the least weight and next and next in order of
> load. Bottom (or most important) is page level then code line level.
> SO... the last one seen is the most important and will override all
> others up the list. You use this to your advantage by making your
> global statements at the top (like font in the body) then down to the
> tag level with size and color, then down to the page level with
> classes you can apply using divs, spans, and modifying tags on a line
> per line basis.
>
> Don't let this overwhelm you. Start simple. 1. make all your
> formatting changes in style view. 2. never use the formatting
> options on the text properties palette (select your predefined tags
> using the drop down box... the one in the paragraph area). Once you
> understand and have used css for a very short while you will be a lot
> happier as things stay more consistent
>
>
> "dwolf" <jojonospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hm8m29$bnb$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com. ..
>> Hi Mike...
>> Well no stupid questions... right ?
>>
>> Ahhh..... found the alignment after all... looks like I should get
>> it to look the way she wants...
>> The CSS is more complicated to do ?