Squished Website

[Guest]

I am a novice to FrontPage. I am using FP2003. I created a website and it
looks fine on my monitor. My wife and I also have notebook computers with
widescreens. On both notebooks, the table was "squished" and the text lost
its formatting. I made some changes to the website that helped on my
notebook, but it is still a problem on my wife's notebook. Changing the text
size for her browser helps. I've looked at some professionally done websites
and I see that this is not a problem for them. How do I go about correcting
this problem? How can I know that it's going to work any other's browsers?
Thanks.

 

[John Jay Smith]

its not your site that has a problem!!! its the resolution of those monitors
on the notebooks
that are not set the the appropriate ones for widescreen!

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

You have to test your site with different browsers. Download and install at
least Firefox, Netscape, maybe Opera and test your web in them as you go
along designing.



|I am a novice to FrontPage. I am using FP2003. I created a website and it
| looks fine on my monitor. My wife and I also have notebook computers with
| widescreens. On both notebooks, the table was "squished" and the text
lost
| its formatting. I made some changes to the website that helped on my
| notebook, but it is still a problem on my wife's notebook. Changing the
text
| size for her browser helps. I've looked at some professionally done
websites
| and I see that this is not a problem for them. How do I go about
correcting
| this problem? How can I know that it's going to work any other's
browsers?
| Thanks.

 

[P@tty Ayers]

These problems are part and parcel of web development. It's very easy to
produce bad code (with FrontPage or any web design program) if you don't
know what you're doing (no offense intended), and even good code can produce
pages which look very different in different browsers and on different
monitors.

It would be hard to get more specific than that without seeing and analyzing
the page. If you post a URL, someone may be able to help.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have been testing the site with IE and with
Firefox. I have adjusted screen resolutions and that doesn't seem to be the
primary culprit. My major problems seem to occur when the text size is
changed in the view menu of the browsers.

After studying some others sites and comparing them to my own, it appears
that I may trying to format the tables in much the same way I would with a
letter in a word processor (with spaces, returns, etc.). I think I need to
split the cells in more places to keep the text where I put it. Does this
make sense?

I have noticed that changing the text size in IE affects some websites and
not others. For instance, it does in www.yahoo.com, but at
www.paperstreet.com it has little affect on the home page (the bullets on the
bulleting lists do change sizes). Interestingly, Firefox does affect the
text size at Paperstreet. Can anyone explain why Paperstreet's text is
affected by Firefox and not by IE?

Thanks for the help!

DocX

 

[Bob Lehmann]

Can anyone explain why Paperstreet's text is affected by Firefox and not
by IE?

Because IE is a piece of junk as far as accessibility, among other things,
is concerned. In IE, the user must change settings to allow resizing.

Bob Lehmann