Is CSS simply awful to work with in Frontpage?

... or is it just me? :-)

[Macro]

When editing tabled sites in FP2000 I fly through my editing tasks, save the file and close FP all at really fast speeds.

When I edit another site (where all pages use an external css file) scrolling through text on the page is painfully, painfully slow. Like I'm using a PIII with 128 MB of RAM (OK, nothing against PIIIs but all my machines are now FX-51s and Intel Extreme Edition P4s).

Do others have this problem? Is there a solution? Or is it just me? The fact that the second site's pages are actually smaller in size than the first one makes it all the more unbearable.

[pageoneresults]

Is CSS simply awful to work with in Frontpage?

No it is not. I've run into this particular issue once before and it had to do with a 1x1 tiling background image for the page or that image is being used as a background for other elements.

For some reason, FP's Normal View cannot handle that 1x1 image tiling down the page in the background.

[Macro]

Aha, that explains it! Thanks

Is there any way around this apart from removing these images?

[pageoneresults]

Yes. Remake the image and size it at 36x36 or even 72x72. The larger the better. That 1x1 tiling background image also causes problems at the browser level. You'll get flicker as you scroll the pages vertically which can be very annoying.

[Macro]

OK, thanks, I'll think about that.