Viewing a page question please

[Dudley Henriques]

I'm having an issue that is puzzling me if someone can kindly provide an
answer.
A forum page I view all the time usually comes up with the entire page in
view top and bottom; left and right margins. If someone would like to view
the page just to verify my issue, please do so. It will help me understand
what's happening better. The page is www.fscloud9.com/forums.
When the main forum subjects page comes up on my IE6.0, it's suddenly giving
me a bottom bar for an extended right side on my screen where it never did
this before.
Have I possibly changed something that might be causing this in my settings?
I checked this page today on another computer and the page loaded normally
with everything showing and no extension bar.
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer on this. I can't figure it
out.
Dudley

 

[Jon Kennedy]

The link you gave is not available. Is it http://forum.fscloud9.it/ ?

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Hi Jon;
The link is www.fscloud9.com/forum
The page in question is the main forum page
Dudley

 

[Jon Kennedy]

I still get a 404 (page not found) error. If I go to
http://www.fscloud9.com it redirects to
http://www.fscloud9.com/php/home.php?lang=EN - and if I click on the "Forum"
button on the top, I go to http://forum.fscloud9.it/ Maybe your link is out
of date? Or you are in a location where the DNS servers redirect you to
somewhere I can't get to from here?

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Hi Jon;
Thanks for your continued interest in this. Appreciate it very much.

I don't know what's the matter with the link, but it's working here ok. I
think I discovered what was wrong today simply by accident. I have had my
monitor set up for 800x600 on the desktop to keep icons a bit larger and
easier to read.
Simply by chance I had occasion to move the monitor in closer to me and as a
result was able to change the resolution to 1024x768. For some reason, this
instantly fixed the web page so that there is now no lower extension bar and
cut off right side.
I have no idea why this was happening on only this one page. I'm guessing
that the page was set up for an optimum resolution of 1024x768 and that my
800x 600 was causing it to show on my monitor as too big.
Am I guessing right on this or am I way off base? I don't know if web pages
are set up with an optimum resolution or whether the end user's monitor
should be "adjusting" for a full view no matter what the page was set up
for.
If this indeed WAS the problem, I guess I've solved it. In any case,
changing my resolution to 1024x768 solved the issue.
Dudley

 

[Jon Kennedy]

You are most welcome. Glad to see your problem has been resolved.
Adjusting your screen resolution was one thing I was going to suggest as a
last resort.

Most web pages are written to display in 800x600 by default - a generally
accepted standard. That's why some sites have large blank areas to the
right if you display them in higher resolutions. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ -
for example. Some sites can detect your screen resolution via scripting and
adjust their display appropriately.** Sometimes they just stretch out,
sometimes they fill the right area with ads - http://www.foxnews.com/ for
instance.

**To see this in action, http://gemal.dk/browserspy/ - scroll down and click
on "Screen Information".

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Thanks Jon, and have a great day!
Dudley

You are most welcome. Glad to see your problem has been resolved.
Adjusting your screen resolution was one thing I was going to suggest as a
last resort.

Most web pages are written to display in 800x600 by default - a generally
accepted standard. That's why some sites have large blank areas to the
right if you display them in higher resolutions.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ - for example. Some sites can detect your
screen resolution via scripting and adjust their display appropriately.**
Sometimes they just stretch out, sometimes they fill the right area with
ads - http://www.foxnews.com/ for instance.

**To see this in action, http://gemal.dk/browserspy/ - scroll down and
click on "Screen Information".
--

Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)