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My site looked fine when I published it at work but when
I checked it at home, on a much larger monitor, it is all
to one side. When I design using the larger monitor, the
page gets squished and text, etc. overlaps. How do I
control this?
If you insist on using exact pixel measurements when
designing your page layout, then your content will be
exactly that wide, regardless of how large or small the
visitor's browser window may be. But if the visitor's
browser window is narrower than you anticipated, you page
will be truncated at the right. If the visitor's window is
larger than you anticipated, there will be blank space at
the right.
The alternative is to design pages within HTML tables
coded width="100%". Such tables always fill the browser
window. If your layout requires four vertical columns, you
would size each column width="25%" and so forth. The
disadvantage here is that when your layout stretches to
fir the window, it loses its original proportions. In a
large window, the layout gets shorter and wider. In a
small window, it gets narrower and longer.
Variable width layouts used to be the norm, but as more
and more designers come to the Web from other media, fixed
width layouts seem to be the rage.
You can mitigate the unbalanced look of a fixed-width
layout by centering it, especially in combination with a
colored page background (even though the background of
your content area might be white).
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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