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    1. [FreeHelp] Need help with CSS file
    2. J.A. Florian
    3. I need help fixing a problem I created before. And help with the CSS file I'm trying to make to correct the problem. I took the CSS file that Pat G. set up for me for another website, and have tried to "plug in" portions from this website/page's CSS. In dir: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/o_f2/mcdonald-pa_3/ There are these zzz_template_css-tidy.htm mcdonald_2.css The 2 images for backgrounds are in the folder "o_f2" along with the "mcdonald_2.css" file. A few years ago, a submitter to my website wanted the section for a town to look slightly different than my regular site's pages. So,I have had pages like this one for this submitter. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/o_f2/mcdonald-pa_3/faq_marriages.htm Two specific problems with the above page are: 1. I don't like that behind the above (original / old) page which loads a brownish-purple color (a dirty purple -- have I said I hate purples? lol) 2. When I originally did the pages, I just disabled the middle image ("mu25bkgd.jpg") to lose that "picture" in the page. That made the innermost and middle borders be one solid color ("beige1_p3.jpg"), but still have the triple border (outer border is a chocolatey color as an image). Obviously, disabling an image used as a background isn't the way to do a webpage (I just didn't know any other way at the time). And, disabling the middle image leaves numerous "broken links" to that middle image. I tried before to switch to an external stylesheet for this website section, but my CSS file failed every time. I'm trying again. I picked a better matching color (I think) in a #color for the overall background (to show if the butterscotch outermost border image fails). The middle and inner areas have (the re-named) "beige1.jpg" and now have #FAEBD7 as a back-up color overall background color. Problem 1: In Frontpage2000 Normal View, the innermost shows the beige1.jpg but the middle border shows the back-up color. HOWEVER, when I switch to Preview, it shows the beige1.jpg on both. Is there a CSS problem? or a quirk with Frontpage? I *think* the image on the live uploaded page also fails on both the middle and inner borders. Problem 2: Do I have the CSS set up correctly now for all parts of the page? Problem 3: Do I have the HTML set up correctly in my test page? Problem 4: If everything is OK, how do I **easily** take existing content and get it on a CSS styled page? What steps would I need to do? FIRST, back up all existing pages. Then... a) copy header info into CSS template page b) copy content into " " c) make sure _includes work d) name the page the same as the old one to not break links Am I missing anything on these steps? Really want to convert this web section so it's improved and so I get rid of all those broken links to the disabled original image. Hope I explained this right. Judy

    02/25/2011 03:09:04