Preview in Browser Seems to Show the Same View All the Time

[bdunaway]

I check my website in "Preview in Browser" using various browsers and screen
sizes, yet the view always seems the same. I have fixed-width and centered
pages. Shouldn't the view change somewhat - showing more or less white space
at least?

 

[Ronx]

Screen sizes? Did you change the screen resolution or the browser
window size? If you changed the screen resolution then the white space
*will* be the same - a browser opened to, say, 970px wide will be 970px
wide at all resolutions (with a resolution of 800x600 the browser will
show a horizontal scroll bar)

If, on the other hand, you did change the browser window sizes and left
the screen resolution alone then the white space on either side of the
page content should change with different sizes. In this case, please
publish a page and give a link to it - then we can advise on what may be
wrong.

 

[bdunaway]

Thanks, Ron. As you suspected, I meant to say I try to change the browser
size with the Preview in Browser feature, but the page looks the same no
matter whether I use 800 x 600 or some other setting. I'm not sure why.
Here's my home page:

http://www.MomsOfOmaha.com

 

[Ronx]

Works for me in IE and FireFox. As the browser window widens, the page
content is fixed width and centred. The blue left and right margins
widen to fill the extra space - in other words, the page content DOES
look the same whatever the width of the browser, but the margins take up
the extra space. It looks good to me. I have checked this on Home page
and several others - the only page that failed was the Forum, which is
centred, but not fixed width (and no blue background).

Off Topic: I have noticed that every page opens in a new window (except
Home page). This will result in several windows or tabs being opened
which may annoy some visitors. Opening the forum in a new window is one
thing, but I do not see the point for other pages.

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