White space above a vertical variant

I'm having trouble with a website variant and white space above where a page is supposed to begin.

My upper left hand corner of the page begins with position X = 0px and y = 0px. My page is w=415 px and h=2567. I've even checked the 'show page shadow' to find out if I have the position correctly.

But -- I end up with white space above where the page is supposed to begin. Remember this is on a variant of a website - so when you view the opening page squish your browser so you can see the problem.

I've never quite understood how Xara defines the above variables. But when you start a page at X and Y position at 0 - that should be the top left of the page. Correct?

www.larrykrause.ca Only look at the opening page, because the rest are all out of whack.

-Bill

Drag the Drag 0, 0 Point cross hairs up to where you want the page to start.

Thanks Gary - but I do think I'm doing it. Check the png. This has always driven me crazy on a few sites that I've built. Just can't figure it out.
You'll see I dragged from the cross hairs to zero markers. Still the dreaded white space above on this particular variant.

Under > page options > Grid and ruler > X= -16px and Y=1900. If I change both and X and Y to 0px and apply nothing seems to change.

This is not happening on the full variant www.larrykrause.ca

Bill, show us your version of this:

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Acorn

P.S. The design file would be much the easier. PM it if you wish.

Does this help Bill?

Hi Acorn .. here are my page options > grid ruler. I bit different of course I'm using WD.

I seem to recall one of your tutorials on Grids and Page margins. I'm going to search for that as well.

Thanks for any ideas.

Thanks @gwpriester - it does a bit. I'm going to add some color to my background so I can actually 'see' where the page starts and ends.

Gary and Acorn. By adding a light color to my page background I'm able to see where the page actually begins. And of course helps a great deal.

I still haven't figured out how to do this with a white background. I must refers to Acorn's post on guides and pages.

Thanks to both of you.

-Bill

You can add a page color until you have extended the top of the page then once it is where you want it, reset the page color.

A quick check is Window > View Quality > Outline.
In XWD(P), it is Alt-W-Q-O and back to Very High quality is Alt-W-Q-V.
If you set up a New View, you can just move from one to the other and see your page in outline.
I find adding Guides is much cleaner in outline so I keep that view with Guides showing as well.

Acorn