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Hi

Currently designing a website for my parents and have designed it in 1024 x 768 screen size, however this means that when viewed on 800 x 600, you have to scan sideways to see the whole screen, I`ve designed the site using Dreamweaver 2 and was just wondering if I can incorporate any auto-resizing so that it fits perfectly on all screens, alternatively are there any other things that can be done other than designing the whole site again!!!!

Any help gratefully received

Big A

NOt an expert or anything but how about setting images, title bars, frames, etc to use a percentage of the screen so diferent resolutions will resize to fit?

How do you do this??

Thanks

BigA

Well I think with frames you can specify the width in Pixels or %. Same with things like horizontal bars using the <HR> tag. Not sure about images though to be honest, I`m not a web designer, just picked up a tiny bit when I made my homepage.

Thanks

I don`t know a great deal about website design either, all i really know is how to use Dreamweaver.

I just thought there may have been some HTML code that automatically resizes the browser so that anyone viewing the site (in 1024 x 768 or 800 X 600) can fit it all in.??!??!?!

Anyone, Anyone :-)

BigA

I`ve not heard of any html that`ll do this.

It may be possible to do this with JavaScript, however. For instance, you could write a little JS routine to detect the user`s screen size and then automatically re-direct them to a version of the page that matches this (obviously you`d have to create several similar pages created for each popular screen size). It may even be possible to write a little routine that could create the correct size page `on the fly` - this would be pretty darn complicated tho`!

Having said all this, I`m assuming you`re not that familiar with JavaScript. Plenty of pre-written scripts are available on the web which you can cut and paste into your html - have a search on Google and see if any are available that might do the job.

Realistically, you`d be better off designing the site to fit the most popular screen size - 800x600 (as most sites do).

OK thanks very much much for that mate.

I think my best option is to redesign it in 800x600 (This is what i should have done initially!!!!)

Is there any way of reducing it down from 1024 x 768 in Dreamweaver does anybody know??

Again thanks for the help

BigA

I agree with A.N.

I write web-sites for a living and only cater for 800 * 600.

As was stated earlier you can detect the screen size using javascript and re-direct to the appropriate pages. But it`s not worth the effort.

Just put a message on the home page.... "This site is best viewed in 800*600" ....that`s what most people do.

Just bear in mind if you do use tables, always set the width to 100% : this means whatever screen size, it should always fit.

Cheers Guys!!
:-)