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Can I ask this simple question? How to get some text on a page where you want it with the font and size that you want.. like Times Roman 12 point and a single block of text right underneath an image representing a title?
Yes, I do it all the time. For myself. Creating as I go. I use Composer. Drop the image, make a table, write into the table. This kind of methodology suits me and I’m able to bash onwards and get involved in other aspects.
BUT, because I’m such a smartie a computer illiterate friend asked me how to make a web page. I told him the easiest way was save his Word doc as html.
That got rid of him. for a couple of days. Now he’s sent me a ‘newsletter’ he’s prepared, in Word I guess, and put out in .mht format and he remarks that it hasn’t gone quite right – can I help.
Well it is very simple. One image heading. One block of text. Another image heading. Another block of text.
But, yes, it has all gone wrong. It won’t show right in a browser. Not in Opera, or firefox or Chrome. The text obscures the images in part etc..
Bring it into Composer and there’s faint rectangles all over the thing a bit like the faint ‘table’ outlines but these aren’t tables.
I managed to clean up the top half but the bottom half had the text changed into a thin strip running down the page for a couple of miles.
I copied this and put it through Word and then went to put it back in and found I’d lost the font and size.
Tried to put it into a text box and it went bold and big.
Tried to put it into a table and I can’t get it to fill the cell – there’s miles of space above the text and below. And I can’t get the font/size. I can select the text and select times roman but I can’t select 12 point.
Such a baby simple thing.
Only difference between what is happening now and what I usually do is that this text is being copied into the page.
And the whole thing just demonstrates how rudimentary my html knowledge is. To my great surprise. And shame.
And knowledge of Composer, too, come to that. One image I can put where I like because it is ‘location:absolute’ but the other image I can’ because it is relative and I can’t find how to change it: bar editing the code in Composer and I try not to do that.
So, please, kind Sirs, what is the way in which one slaps an image on a web page and then slaps some text in a nice neat box – or wide column – beneath it in the font and size one chooses?
And how to make that simple change in Composer: from relative to absolute?
Perhaps I’m using the wrong tool in Composer? I used to use that Microsoft thing: Frontpage? But it has/had all that proprietary stuff so I dumped it.