Dumb newbie question, here it goes...

Question

Hello all!
I'm sure this is going to sound absolutely ridiculous, but,
how do you define the page dimensions in CS3?
I have found the thing at the bottom of the page, with the
drop down menu, but this does not seem to lock the size.
I just want my pages to be veiwable in 800x600 and whenever i
check it on the web my background comes up as a series of tiles.
!!!Please help!!!
Thanks very much guys and girls for looking and any help will
be much appreciated!!
Darren

Answer 1

> I'm sure this is going to sound absolutely ridiculous,
but, how do you
> define the page dimensions in CS3?
You don't. You build your page so that no contiguous adjacent
content on it
is wider than the smallest browser viewport width you want to
support
without dropping horizontal scrollbars. And, you don't worry
about height
at all. The shape of the contents determins height.
> I have found the thing at the bottom of the page, with
the drop down menu,
> but
> this does not seem to lock the size.
That's correct. It only adjusts the size of your document
viewport to the
selected values so that you can see how your page fits in
those dimensions.
I rarely use it (actually, never).
> I just want my pages to be veiwable in 800x600 and
whenever i check it on
> the
> web my background comes up as a series of tiles.
Well, no, you want your page to be seen in an 800px wide
browser viewport
without a horizontal scrollbar. Actually you would want to
make the page
about 760px wide to fit on a maximized browser window on an
800x600 screen.
> and whenever i check it on the
> web my background comes up as a series of tiles.
Of course - that's how backgrounds work. They tile to fill
the available
space. If you do not want them to tile, then you have to tell
the browser
not to do that. The best way is to use CSS and the
'background-repeat'
style, e.g.,
body { background-repeat:no-repeat; }
(this will prevent any background image applied to the body
tag from
repeating (or 'tiling').
> !!!Please help!!!
Get a good (or even a mediocre) book on HTML and CSS and
spend some time
with it. DW will be ever so much easier after doing that.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"jebsmells" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello all!
>
> I'm sure this is going to sound absolutely ridiculous,
but, how do you
> define the page dimensions in CS3?
>
> I have found the thing at the bottom of the page, with
the drop down menu,
> but
> this does not seem to lock the size.
>
> I just want my pages to be veiwable in 800x600 and
whenever i check it on
> the
> web my background comes up as a series of tiles.
>
> !!!Please help!!!
>
> Thanks very much guys and girls for looking and any help
will be much
> appreciated!!
>
> Darren
>