Is it enough to simply completely cover the white field?

Question

I am looking at the blank page and everything is white. I am going to insert a picture of a pink flower (very close up), and I want that image to fill the entire page. The Navigation Window will not be displayed.
QUESTION: Can I rest assured that I have correctly placed my image if I can scroll completely up and completely down without seeing any of that white browser (?) field?
Thank you.
Lorna in Southern California

Answer 1

Hi Lorna!!!
I kept thinking today...what the heck is she talking
about a white field??? But now it makes sense to
me....you like to use the Modern blank template so
everything is white! And it might be a little
difficult to see where the white PAGE ends and where
the iWeb WORKSPACE continues.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Yes, yes, you are describing what I see!
So I came home and did my experiment finally like I
said I was going to do.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Give the guy a Krispy Kreme mini kruller for that!
I have a blank white Modern
template page opened up in iWeb. Of course, "Show
Layout" under the View menu is selected. So all I
see right now is the navigation menu, a long
horizontal banner photo with a text box inside, and
the outline of the body content and footer. Beyond
that, the whole page is white.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Yes, that's what I see too. OH! Guess what? Instead of using a blank page, I used the first template showing on the template selection drawer. I used it because it the used by default as the Welcome page.
I see why I should have just used the BLANK page. 8-(
So here's the deal with the white space....
Everything that is inside the grey lines/boxes is
your page and will show up when you publish.
Everything outside the grey lines is just blank iWeb
WORKSPACE that will not show up on your published
page. If you plop a giant photo that is larger than
the available page, the parts of the photo that lay
outside the grey lines will be cut off and NOT
APPEAR on your published page. So if you place your
photo so that it exactly comes up to the edges of
the page, you will still see the white space around
it....but that is just iWeb WORKSPACE and not part
of your page. I can now understand how this might
look confusing if you had your closeup peony flower
photo filling up the whole page and yet you still
saw all the white space around it.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Well finally you see it. Whew! I feel better. I understand your explanation. BUT I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH SOMEONE CALLING IT A WORKSPACE. It would be a workspace if I could actually cut and paste and whatever and work in that space, but that is not the case. That white expanse of field is just where I can push empty undeletable text boxes, or where overly-large photos can sit while I try to fit them into the window. I would call it a SPILL-OVER SPACE. It is passive space. It is not used for work. It is used as a garbage can, a holding tank, a card table with stuff on it.
But James, the next part of this is HOW DOES ALL OF THIS RELATE TO THE INSPECTOR guy? Let's say I go to Inspector > Page. You have told me that you do not fill in those spaces until AFTER you have finished the page and you know for sure what the numbers are.
Please tell me where I am wrong:
So after you finish your work on that page, you then want to enter in the numbers in pixels in Inspector > Page. To know what the height is in the first place, you have to go to Metrics, right? And Metrics tells you what something measures, in pixels? And then you copy those numbers into the Page dynamic boxes?
So now you have those dynamic boxes in Page filled in with text height. WHAT DOES IT MATTER? PLEASE TELL ME WHY IT EVEN MATTERS!
I have discovered that I like to put 15 pixels of padding on top and bottom because that is a visual cue for me. Beyond that padding, I see the browser background; without that padding, the text/picture window goes right up to the top of the monitor screen and I don't know for sure what's under there.
So please tell me why it matters to enter those numbers on text height, header height, footer height, etc. BTW, I always have ZERO header height, but...... under what circumstances would a person include a header height? What would go into that header? Page numbers?????
I am going to print out your post. It makes sense now but I can't always keep details in my head forever. Just because I understand it now doesn't mean I'll remember it later. (You might ask me how I got my students to understand that from real life entertaining experience.)
Lorna in Southern California