Creating a web page in Fireworks CS3

Question

When I create a web page in Fireworks CS3 and export it the
page apears on the left side of the screan. I want it to be in the
center of the screan. How do I make it centered? I know that if I
open it in MS Front Page I can select page properties and center
the page in that program but how do I do it in Fireworks?

Answer 1

robweed7 wrote:
> Thanks, I am a beginner. And I understand the "(barf)"
with frontpage. Our
> church ordered frontpage for me to use, then I
discovered Adobe products, and
> can't afford it. I did get them to get me fireworks
though and as a beginner
> it is the coolest graphic design program I have used.
Look at NVu which is free and does a very decent job. I tried
it when it
was only in beta and it was promising although it couldn't
get me to
switch from Dreamweaver. I haven't used the final version but
I'm
certain it will give you better results than using Fireworks'
rigid and
easily breakable exported HTML and certainly a lot better
than FrontPage.
http://www.nvu.com/
> I have another question should you know the answere. As
a beginner I created
> the web page graphics in Fireworks then opened it in
Frontpage(barf) and
> finished the page. I uploaded it to my server and it
looks great in I-Explorer
> but is all chopped up in FireFox. If I publish it
straight from Fireworks it
> looks fine in FireFox. Why, and what do i do?
This is because, despite its flaws (and they are severe),
Fireworks'
exported code is less proprietary and more cross browser
compatible than
FrontPage's. I believed that later versions of FrontPage
created better
code but your story proves once again that no visual Web
"design"
application that falsely promise WYSIWYG is a substitute for
learning
the basics of Web design and development and getting your
hands dirty in
HTML and CSS code to understand how things work. Web design
is certainly
not only about the visuals and any designer who thinks he can
get away
with only creating Web sites visually without the need for a
working
knowledge of the underlying code is seriously delusional (not
saying
this is your case).
I do not mean you need to create your sites' code in NotePad
(which is
completely inefficient IMO). But you do need to understand
how things
work under the hood to make the right decisions in your
editor and be
able to fix problems. WYSIWYG is a pipe dream. Don't buy into
it.
Until you can afford something like Dreamweaver, NVu could
serve your
needs as it offers a source code view and apparently creates
decent code
out of the box. Learning to code HTML and CSS in a more text
based
application may be better for you in the long run if you are
serious
about learning this craft properly though. I'm sorry that I
cannot point
you to specific learning resources as it's been years since I
was a
beginner in this field and learned from too many sources. If
there is
one book I could recommend that I wish had been around when I
started
out in early 1996, it would be Zeldman's "Designing with Web
Standards".
This could be one of the smartest investment you make right
now:
http://tinyurl.com/2s2dhg
(direct link to book page on Amazon)
HTH!
Stéphane Bergeron
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