Dreamweaver - Resolution friendly page sizes?

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Resolution friendly page sizes?

zombieman1

2006-03-28, 6:29 pm

I dont understand. Nothing in my book or my dreamweaver for dummies talks
about this. Im designing my webpage on a 22inch lcd monitor. My monitor
resolution settings are set to 1122 x 864. When im done with my pages, they
look fine on my computer, but when I change my resolution, or get on a smaller
monitor I may have to scroll side to side to see the entire page. I know this
doesnt have to be like this due to me hardly ever running into this issue while
surfing the net. What am I doing wrong in dreamweaver 8? How do I set it to
"auto-size" per resolution or whatever it would be?

Tim G

2006-03-28, 6:29 pm

"zombieman1" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e0adib$23k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I dont understand. Nothing in my book or my dreamweaver for dummies talks
> about this. Im designing my webpage on a 22inch lcd monitor. My monitor
> resolution settings are set to 1122 x 864. When im done with my pages,
> they
> look fine on my computer, but when I change my resolution, or get on a
> smaller
> monitor I may have to scroll side to side to see the entire page. I know
> this
> doesnt have to be like this due to me hardly ever running into this issue
> while
> surfing the net. What am I doing wrong in dreamweaver 8? How do I set it
> to
> "auto-size" per resolution or whatever it would be?

Read these two articles:

http://www.thepattysite.com/window_sizes1.cfm

http://www.dwfaq.com/tutorials/Tabl...ible_tables.asp

tim
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Helpful Harry

2006-03-28, 6:29 pm

In article <e0afdu$48s$1@forums.macromedia.com>, "Tim G"
<webservicesNOSPAM@pactumgroup.com> wrote:

> "zombieman1" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:e0adib$23k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
> Read these two articles:
>
> http://www.thepattysite.com/window_sizes1.cfm
>
> http://www.dwfaq.com/tutorials/Tabl...ible_tables.asp

You should NEVER have a website that auto-sizes to the screen
resolution. It should re-size to the window's size. On a Mac people
rarely have the web browser filling the entire screen. On a Windows PC
of xourse people seem to insist on having the current application
taking up the whole screen.

Helpful Harry
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