How do you please everyone?

[John Tyler]

Hi,
I created a personal web page assuming it would be user friendly. My monitor
resolution is 1024 x 768 and the page view properly left to right. Several
people said they have to scroll left to right to read everything so I assume
their resolution is 800 x 600. Why doesn't this problem exist with
professionally designed web pages? Is there a hidden setting in FP2002 that
will satisfy the viewing of my webpage no matter what the screen resolution
of the viewer is? Or is their software that can handle this situation? I
spent a lot of time and effort and wish it would appear full screen let to
right for everyone to view.
Thanks,
John

 

[Mike Mueller]

: Hi,
: I created a personal web page assuming it would be user
: friendly. My monitor resolution is 1024 x 768 and the
: page view properly left to right. Several people said
: they have to scroll left to right to read everything so I
: assume their resolution is 800 x 600. Why doesn't this
: problem exist with professionally designed web pages? Is
: there a hidden setting in FP2002 that will satisfy the
: viewing of my webpage no matter what the screen
: resolution of the viewer is? Or is their software that
: can handle this situation? I spent a lot of time and
: effort and wish it would appear full screen let to right
: for everyone to view.
: Thanks,
: John

One thing I have learned is to use tables as layout tools
and set the width as a percentage.

Mike

 

[JDR]

John,

Is sounds like you designed your tables using pixel
width, rather than percentage.

Open your page in FP and Right click in the Table. Go to
Table properties and see if the Pixel width is checked.
If so uncheck it and select percentage.

If all your content is within 1 table, use 100%, this
will expand and contract the table to a browser
resolution.

Also keep in mind that table expanding and contracting
will change an appearance, so you would want to test it
in different browser reolutions. To do this go to
File>Preview in web browser. If you are using FP 03, you
can select browser versions and resolution sizes.

Hope it helps,
JDR
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