Sizing Web pages

[Leon]

I want to size my Web page so that viewers do not have to scroll left to
right and vice versa. On the monitor of the computer I used to create the
page, the page is fine, but when I view the same page on another monitor the
page needs to be scrolled left to right to view the entire page. How can I
publish a Web page that will be viewed the same on all monitors.

For instance, on the Yahoo.com homepage the side margins are set in quite a
ways on my monitor on other monitors it reaches the side, but does not go
beyond and thus eliminates the need to scroll side to side. It seems that
over the past year or so many Web pages are constructed similar to the
Yahoo.com homepage. How can I build a Web page that will also be similar? I
do not want to use frames. I am using FrontPage 2000. Thanks in advance for
any help. Leon

 

[Andrew Murray]

Make sure the page size (when I say size, I mean the width of the screen -
or the viewable 'portal' of the screen - the browser viewing area that
displays the actual site) e.g. make sure your tables and so on are no wider
than for example 770 pixels wide (by no means a definitive figure) on a
800x600 and 900-something on a 1024x 768 res. (these being the most common
resolutions).

That way you'll always get the site within the viewable area of the
screen... anyway that's for starters, if any use a high resolution thatn
1024 x 768, maybe you can design a specific site for that size, and redirect
the user using Javascript once it detects the screen size.

You need to take into account that some screen space is taken up with the
browser's tool bars, scroll bars etc, hence the 770px and 900-something px
above.

You can also build the layout in tables, and use percentages to define the
widths of the tables, that way it will adjust to whatever screen resolution
is being used.

 

[m_clancy]

Leon

I was having the same problem and was waiting on the answer to your question
to resolve my dilemna, but I think I have solved it.

The trick is to design your site with layout tables for each part i.e. top
border, left border, main body etc in a smaller size of page i.e. 800x600
(pretty standard these days I think).

Your site will appear smaller (that appears to be the fashion these days),
but will be uniform from screen to screen.

I hope this helps and if I discover anything else that may help, I'll let
you know.

Regards

Mark