browser/display compatability

[Guest]

I have worked many hours on my website and am very
frustrated. Any input would be greatly appreciated. When
working on my webpage I would continuously switch to
browser preview to make sure that everything looked good.
Upon publishing my website It looked perfectly fine on my
laptop. When I looked at it from the other computers in
my office (display settings of 800x600) the pages seemed
oversized and things were not
aligned as they appeared on my computer. I am hoping
there is a simple fix.

John

 

[Köck Matthias]

Hello,

[... Website layout changes on another display
settings ...]

Every browser fits the layout of the page into its own
window. If the screen resolution is lower or higher than
on your computer, the layout is adapted.

If you want to create a more or less static layout, I
recommand to fit it to a screen resolution of 800x600
pixels. Lower resolutions are so rare today that you don't
have to account for them. If you set the whole page
centered, it fits into the page on 800x600 resolutions and
leaves white (or colored if you used background colors or
pictures) spaces left and right.
Look at http://web.de
It's a German search engine working this way. Our
computers in the school library used 800x600, at home i'm
working with 1024x768 - and on both displays the page look
the same.

Köck Matthias

 

[John Madron]

URL http://www.summitmountainhomes.com

 

[Mike Mueller]

Set up a structure on the webpage using tables based on percentages (not
pixels). Insert your text, images etc into the cells. The table and cells
will always be sized as a percentage of the screen

Mike