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Question submitted by <anonymous>:

When using FrontPage's autothumbnail tool on an image, the full size version opens and is on the left side of my browser with a white background. Is it possible to center the image and change the background color?

Answer from Tina Clarke:

Yes, though it does not have a white background; that's just the default colour you're seeing. One can configure one's browser to show any colour, which could be bright green for instance. The only way to have seen what you want to be seen is to configure the background of the page, which you can't do with a graphic file; you need to make a page and link the smaller thumbnail to the page. Of course with the page .htm file you can configure the background, position the graphic and add text the same as any other .htm file.

Make the page, right click on the thumbnail, click the appearance tab and enter the path to the page or browse to it. Don't forget to add the alt tag while you're there under "text".  This lets blind viewers navigate the page more easily.  Just put a short description of the graphic.