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From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Genpage vs Gen2html
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:32:05 -0500


> > What I would like to do is use my background.jpg file and font colors etc.
> I have a left sided border and am wondering whether my underlying table
> (used to keep text off the border) will affect how these programs are used.
>
> These and similar programs format the page for you. You can change the
> background by substituting yours for theirs, but you can't change the layout
> without doing each page by hand -- not an enticing prospect.

If you get the right tool, you can have it do things like

"Change the BODY tag in every file under this directory to...."

or

"Find every end of HEAD tag and insert before it this call to
a CSS stylesheet"

If you can have every page load the same CSS stylesheet, you can do all
sorts of things with fonts, backgrounds, colors, margins, spacing, etc.
The downside, of course, is having to learn CSS. But that's not hard.
See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/CSS-sample.html
for an introduction.

--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau

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