Bottom Auto Adjust

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Bottom Auto Adjust

Using the simple theme there is a visual decorative border that has a separate piece just for the bottom of the border that automatically goes down whenever you place an object against its formatting edge.

I want to make the edge closer to the border, shrinking the amount of space so that I can place text closer to the decorative border. Sorry, I don't know the technical term for the decorative border.

Right now the spacing is more than an inch, would like it to be at least half that. How can I adjust the spacing using by the auto-adjusting bottom decorative border?

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Posted on Nov 10, 2008 4:36 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Nov 10, 2008 5:13 PM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Kennneth:

Try using the Inspector/Page/Page/Layout pane and see if shortening the footer will do what you want.

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OT

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Answer 2

Nov 10, 2008 6:59 PM in response to Old Toad

Nope, just moved the white background down, pushing the bottom auto-adjust border off and making the vertical decorative border do weird things.

I tried using the same pane to adjust the width of the auto-adjust border object, but it ends up squishing the decorative border.

It seems the theme simply has that limitation.

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Answer 3

Old Toad

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Nov 11, 2008 10:04 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Yes. Some themes do not lend themselves to size change very well. 😟

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Answer 4

Nov 11, 2008 10:10 AM in response to Old Toad

I can live with it.

However, would love to add key words to a hidden area within each page to help with search engines. Can't find anywhere to do it....

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Answer 5

Old Toad

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Nov 11, 2008 10:23 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

If the background is a solid color create a text box with your key words and make the the same color as the background. Put it at the bottom somewhere away from other elements of the page.

Better yet use the freeware iWeb SEO Tool which can put keyword metadata into published pages for the serarch engines to find and use. The downside to this method is that if you republish the page you'll have to add that metadata back into the page file. The application does make it a little easier to do so because it remembers what metadata it used so you only have to apply it again, not enter the keywords themselves.

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Answer 6

Nov 11, 2008 12:50 PM in response to Old Toad

Awesome. Thanks for the meta help, it worked.

K

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Answer 7

Nov 11, 2008 1:38 PM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad wrote:
If the background is a solid color create a text box with your key words and make the the same color as the background. Put it at the bottom somewhere away from other elements of the page.

OT

Tsk tsk. You do know this is an SEO no no and some major search engines will not include you in their listings for doing this!!

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Answer 8

Old Toad

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Nov 11, 2008 1:44 PM in response to AllAboutiWeb

😟 Ooops. You're right. I forgot about that. Was only thinking on how to hide the text and not the other ramifications. The iWeb SEO Tool method is the correct way.

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