CREATING A WEBSITE FROM SCRATCH

**DanFelix** · 14 January 2018, 01:58 PM

I am unclear in what function a Master Page feature would provide that is not already available in the program. What do you see missing that Master Pages fulfill?

**gwpriester** · 14 January 2018, 02:24 PM

Master pages give the designer more than one template. So you might have a master page for each main section on your website or your print document, with nav bar and banner and other appropriate graphics in place and then another master page for your gallery or sales/product sheets. It is a feature found in most design software.

So, you create a new page, then you can use the master page to format that page the way you want it with one click.

I have been doing some book design and for this it would be helpful to have a master left page and right page because the margins are different, and a new chapter page. Right now working in page spread view, if I change the position of the text on the left hand page of the book, it changes both left and right pages the same so the text column on one half of the pages is wrong and need to be manually re-positioned. Not only that, but every time I move a block of text, there is a dialog that asks if I want to make this change for all text blocks or just this one. And for each page I change I have to answer this dialog. A master page would eliminate this.

**paul777** · 15 January 2018, 01:54 PM

Hi There

I have another small issue. I have created a page for my website with the page dims as Width 880px and a height of 1000px. Now I have attached a coloured bar at the top of the page and made this to stretch the full length of the page at the top. When viewing this page in google for some reason at the bottom of the page there apprears to be a width scroll bar. I am not sure why this would appear at the bottom of the page as the width of the page is 880px.
Any help in resolving this would be much apprecated.

And thank you for all your previous replies

Best Regards
Paul777

**bkjohns** · 15 January 2018, 03:15 PM

What layer is the bar placed on?

**Egg Bramhill** · 15 January 2018, 04:23 PM

..coloured bar

What width is the coloured bar?

**paul777** · 15 January 2018, 05:03 PM

Hi There,

This is just a empty coloured bar at the top of the page. I am not sure what you mean by what layer. This is on the index page and has been repeated on all pages.

The other small issue is I have inserted photo text panels on a page 4 in a row. How can I set all the nav buttons at the bottom of the text to stay in line.

**Egg Bramhill** · 15 January 2018, 05:07 PM

Paul, can you attach your web/xar file?

**paul777** · 15 January 2018, 05:10 PM

how do i do this?

**gwpriester** · 15 January 2018, 06:50 PM

I looked at your file and I am not getting any horizontal scroll bars in Firefox, Internet Explorer or Edge.

**DanFelix** · 15 January 2018, 06:22 PM

Got it. Thanks. I use styles in WordPerfect for the same purpose. Edits to a style propagate to all uses of the style. There are few formatting options not in the styles feature so it is rather robust from a character up to a full multi-page document. It would be a useful tool in web design as well.

Thanks.
Dan