Page formating

[Michael Wardreau]

Is there a program that keeps web pages from cropping the right side
of the page.

Most web sides have a spacious left margin filled with junk and other
links, but the page with useful information seems chopped off
unnecessarily. Adjusting the margins with File\Page Setup sometimes
works, but ...

 

[canetoad]

Is there a program that keeps web pages from cropping the right side
of the page.

Most web sides have a spacious left margin filled with junk and other
links, but the page with useful information seems chopped off
unnecessarily. Adjusting the margins with File\Page Setup sometimes
works, but ...

Try increasing your screen resolution. You can increase font size
accordingly, for readability.

 

[MLC]

martedì 7 marzo 2006 Michael Wardreau ha scritto:

Is there a program that keeps web pages from cropping the right side
of the page.

Most web sides have a spacious left margin filled with junk and other
links, but the page with useful information seems chopped off
unnecessarily. Adjusting the margins with File\Page Setup sometimes
works, but ...

In Opera it's just the click of a button: "Fit to window width".

 

[Anonymous]

Michael Wardreau expressed precisely :

Is there a program that keeps web pages from cropping the right side
of the page.

Most web sides have a spacious left margin filled with junk and other
links, but the page with useful information seems chopped off
unnecessarily. Adjusting the margins with File\Page Setup sometimes
works, but ...

Michael,

Some webpages (like www.foxnews.com) are created with the assumption
that your browser's bookmarks or favorites side-bar has been
deactivated and that the website has your entire screen to display
content. Consequently, the right side of the sitepages are off the
screen.

Deactivating your side-bar *should* solve the issue.

The *real* problem is that people who teach webpage-design and
HTML-layout at CompUSA and in community colleges are telling their
students that NO ONE uses their broswer-side-bars anymore---which is
just wrong! Maybe if enough users contact enough webmasters and let
them know that we are still using our side-bars (and we never stopped),
then maybe the sites will be rewritten to accomdate the proper screen
dimensions---or rewritten as tables in percentages and not as tables in
absolute pixels widths.

Time for a beer.

 

[David]

Michael Wardreau expressed precisely :

Michael,

Some webpages (like www.foxnews.com) are created with the assumption
that your browser's bookmarks or favorites side-bar has been
deactivated and that the website has your entire screen to display
content. Consequently, the right side of the sitepages are off the
screen.

Deactivating your side-bar *should* solve the issue.

The *real* problem is that people who teach webpage-design and
HTML-layout at CompUSA and in community colleges are telling their
students that NO ONE uses their broswer-side-bars anymore---which is
just wrong! Maybe if enough users contact enough webmasters and let
them know that we are still using our side-bars (and we never stopped),
then maybe the sites will be rewritten to accomdate the proper screen
dimensions---or rewritten as tables in percentages and not as tables in
absolute pixels widths.

Time for a beer.

Well I never use a sidebar. It's just a waste of screen estate.

 

[freebuttons.us]

Michael Wardreau expressed precisely :

The *real* problem is that people who teach webpage-design and HTML-layout
at CompUSA and in community colleges are telling their students that NO
ONE uses their broswer-side-bars anymore---which is just wrong! Maybe if
enough users contact enough webmasters and let them know that we are still
using our side-bars (and we never stopped), then maybe the sites will be
rewritten to accomdate the proper screen dimensions---or rewritten as
tables in percentages and not as tables in absolute pixels widths.

Time for a beer.

You are so right! Webmasters can also combine pixel width and percent width
to maintain design control. The following example creates a page with a
left hand navigation and link column set to 180 pixel width and a main
content column that will automatically resize to the site visitors
rowser. - Please pretend the parentheses are angle brackets:

(table width="100%")
(tr)
(td width="180")(/td)
(td width="100%")(/td)
(/tr)
(/table)

 

[Michael Wardreau]

Thanks for all your responses, to my March 6th request, but I'm afraid
I wasn't too clear on what I was looking for:

It's when I print the web page to paper paper that the last parts of
the longer lines sometimes are truncated. Some lines have only a few
letters missing and my brain can assume what the missing letters are.
Other times the lines are missing a word or two and I get distracted
from the content by trying to puzzle through whether a word is missing
or just a few letters.

I found "WebPrint" by Okidata when I was researching their color laser
printer. http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/WebPrintUtility.html
But their site says that WebPrint is a plug-in for IE6.0

It seems to have done the trick but I'm not positive. I predominantly
use freeware SlimBrowser (flashpeak.com) and sometimes use IE6.0

But I don't remember specific sites where I had the problem other than
www.planetary.org but I complained to them and I think they fixed the
problem on their end before I found Web Print utility.

I do not use an Okidata printer, by the way. I was just researching a
color laser I saw in a Staples advertisement.

The WebPrint utility has a toolbar you can display in IE6.0 but I
generally don't use IE, and when I do I don't use the Okidata
(WebPrint) toolbar. Slimbrowser doesn't see the toolbar and the
Windows TaskManager gives no indication it's even running.

What I'm saying here is I'm not fully convinced I've solved the
problem. It may just be I haven't run into any Web pages that have
overly long lines of text!

Anyway, it's not a screen problem, but rather a paper problem, and the
problem may or may not be solved. Thanks for the responses