Fitting the Page to Various Resolutions

[Guest]

Is there a feature or technique in Frontpage 2003 that will always allow the
page that I have designed to expand or contract to meet various resolutions
and appear pretty much the same to all viewers as it does to me in my design?
So that if I design a page that fits completely within my screen at my design
resolution, it will appear roughly the same to all visitors (without having
to scroll to view all the content) regardless of the viewer's screen size or
resolution. Thank you for your help.

 

[Steve Easton]

One way ( the simplest ) is to create a main table for the page and set it at 100% width, and then
place all of the content in the table.

However you will need to check it at different resolutions a the content will rearrange as the table
expands and contracts at different settings.

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[Ronx]

Simple answer: No.

You can design for a fixed width layout, or a liquid layout. The fixed
width (say all content within a 760px wide table) will display the same for
all browser widths from 800px upwards, but wider browsers will display blank
space in one or both (left/right) margins.

The liquid layout (all content in a 100% wide table) will expand and
contract with the browser width, but the layout in the table will change as
text wraps in different places, and images and other objects will move
around.

Finally, all users can change the font size to suit their screen resolution
and eyesight. This will also change the layout for individual users.

 

[Guest]

Ronx - Thank you for your help. I need to design with a fixed with layout so
that the content in the cells doesn't change in size, test wrap, etc. I'll
try working with a 760px wide table at an 800 x 600 resolution. My fear is
that for those visitors with a higher screen resolution my site will appear
microscopic. I'm not sure how to avoid this type of result.

If you have any thoughts about this it would be greatlly appreicated..

George

 

[Guest]

Steve - Thank you for your help. My problem in experimenting with 100% width
was that the size of the cells changed with the content as some cells became
squeezed. I added spacers to stabilize the right side of my table to try to
control that problem.

I'll try to design this as Ronx suggested in his advice. I'll design it with
a fixed 760px width layout at an 800 x 600 resolution so that the content in
the cells won't change in size, text wrap, etc. Since my site is content
intensive (articles on a number of topics), I want to try to avoid the
content on my site appearing very small to those with a higher resolution. If
you have any thoughts about this it would be greatlly appreciated.

George

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Nothing you can do about it, the user can increase the font size in their browser as long as you
haven't tried locking the font size with CSS.

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[Ronx]

Many users with high resolution screens do not open their browsers at full
screen. The number of users with a screen resolution greater than 1280 wide
is small (see www.echoecho.com ), and a 760px table centred on a browser
window 1280px wide is (IMO) acceptable.

 

[Guest]

Tom - Thank you for your answer. I think I know what to do now given the
limitations. One thing I should let everyone at Microsoft Frontpage know is
ow helpful the tutorials have been. I knew nothing about web design when I
started a few weeks ago. The tutorials and practice sessions have been
fabulous. More of them would be appreciated.

George

 

[Jon Spivey]

You can't "lock" font size with CSS. In fact I don't think you can "lock"
anything on the web, the user is king

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can lock the font size via CSS for users of IE browsers that DO NOT know how to override a
website CSS settings.

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