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vdub
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Joined: 19 Mar 2003
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Sun Apr 20, 2003 9:24 pm (21 years ago) |
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I have finished the first bit of a community website www.brookenby.com. I published it and sent link to a few friends to review for some general feed back.
I found the following problem...
When working on the site my screen resolution was set to 1024x768 a friend viewed it at 800x600 and found the layout didnt work very well at his res.
I had used a 3 column table to set the table out. How is it possible to maintain the same layout no matter what the resolution used to view it, Hopefully with a simple solution? |
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drathbun
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Joined: 01 Mar 2003
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Location: Texas
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Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:10 pm (21 years ago) |
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IMHO, there is no "simple" answer. A couple of options... you can (a) design for 800 x 600 and leave it as a fixed width, leaving "wasted" space for those with larger windows. Or you can design a "floating" design where at least one of your columns is variable width so that the screen will resize in an appropriate fashion.
For example, you say you have 3 colulmns. Two of them should (could) be a fixed width, in absolute pixel terms. The third would be width="100%" which is a way to ask it to take the remaining space. The challenge is to work with the graphics and layout in such a way that the layout looks good for all resolutions, from 800 x 600 on up.
800 x 600 is considered a base-level resolution these days. Most folks have at least that, if not more. But don't assume that because someone has a larger monitor they run full screen windows. We had a discussion on that about a month or so ago. 
Good luck! 
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Gary
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Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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Location: the UK, Devon
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Mon May 26, 2003 4:13 pm (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hi sorry for bringing this post back from the dead but
http://thesummer.net/v2/sq1/index2.php
i made that and it seems whatever the size it holds the screen resolution and actually looks okay, sorry for the poor design lol its only for testing. |
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Daniel
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Joined: 06 Jan 2002
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Mon May 26, 2003 4:19 pm (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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If I don't make the window big enough, I get scrollbars (and I don't have a tiny window either  ). |
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Darren
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Joined: 05 Feb 2002
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Location: London
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Mon May 26, 2003 6:52 pm (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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| Daniel wrote: | | If I don't make the window big enough, I get scrollbars (and I don't have a tiny window either ). |
Its fine at 800x600 for me, although one of the <td>s is set to over 1000 so I'm not sure why.
besides the browser maybe choking on the invalid html - e.g. unclosed tables and an extra body tag |
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verto
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Joined: 14 Jan 2002
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Location: Cambridge MA USA
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Tue May 27, 2003 3:55 pm (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Also works for me in IE6/Win. What browser version/make are you using, Gary?
I'd back up what Darren said:
first try fixing the cell with width set to '1019,' and then fix your other code. The easiest way to find and fix the rest of the errors would probably be to validate your code, which is easy, and something you might want to get in the habit of doing (esp. when you have problems like this one).
Looks like you're using DW too, so validation should be easy if you click on DW's editor button to switch into HomeSite, which has a button to click for validation, shows you line numbers of the errors, and lots more.  |
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Gary
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Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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Tue May 27, 2003 9:26 pm (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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verto
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Wed May 28, 2003 2:02 am (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, sorry about that, Gary -- just noticed that it was actually Daniel who reported the problem.
But I'd still recommend fixing your code as suggested above. Maybe it'll also cover the problem Daniel noticed.  |
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Gary
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Location: the UK, Devon
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:25 pm (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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LOL yeah i will do, it was a bad design so i think ill start again, thanks for the tips |
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Liquor_Riss
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Joined: 21 Jun 2003
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Location: Hampshire, England.
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Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:01 pm (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you use <div> tags (<div=center>YOUR CODE</div>) then the site should be centred on all browsers. |
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nikhilmng
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Fri Sep 05, 2003 6:30 pm (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Darren
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