i'm looking for any and all suggestions and ideas here.... i am working on a site and it looks okay (but a lil to the left... extra space on the right but looks okay like that) on my 1024 res. but if i change my monitor settings to 800 then look at the site its absolutly huge (text images ect)!...

any ideas on making it look decent on both settings?
is there a way to make the pages auto size to fit the window?

What kind of layout are you using? Image base or just HTML stuff?

Why dont you start an affiliate program? You can make a small button for other people to put on their site, and you can put their button on your site? You'll be taking away the space and getting more visitors.

Originally posted by tayjalee
but if i change my monitor settings to 800 then look at the site its absolutly huge (text images ect)!...

any ideas on making it look decent on both settings?
is there a way to make the pages auto size to fit the window?

1. keep in mind that anyone using the 800 res is normally used to seeing things in that sizing. since you are used to the higher res, yes, an 800 setting may "seem" very large. to me an 1024 setting is very small.

2. try to make a layout using percentages so tables and stuff will expand or contract to the window size.

here is the web site HEADLESS (http://www.headless-music.com) its not that i am used to these settings infact i have only had the new monitor for about 2 months and my monitor before that was set at 800x600, please dont take effence to my lil pop up (tho i did change it to make it less effensive)

as for layout its just a black background and then inserted images and what not. the guy I am building it for called about 10 minutes ago and is gunna be comeing over and what not and i at least wanna be able to explaine to him why its doing that lol...

as for banner exchangs and everything it would be a good idea but thats not actualy the problem... its not that i need more stuff to fill the space cause when i am building the site everything is over on the edges but when it opens it seems to shrink down and shift to the left or if i set it to the 800x600 and open it it seems like everything is magnified and then u have to scroll to the right to make it all fit. plus i dont think at this time hes really interested in banners and what not.

okay all thanks for any help you can provide I look forward to hearing from ya'll...

oh and could u explain the using % thing?

Percentages work like this. For example...lets say you have a table right in the middle of the page and you want it to use up pretty much half the size of the screen with equal amounts of free space on each size. Well instead of making it width="512px" (because that's half of your resolution if you're using 1024 x 768 .........then you just make it width="50%".

That way when someone using 800 x 600 see's the same page it will use 50 of 800 (so 400px)....instead of if you had hard coded 512px which would seem very big for someone using 800 x 600. Get it?

if you are using pagebuilder, then you might not be able to control the widths much specifically.

otherwise, if you take a look at the DIV and TABLE tags, you will probably see a WIDTH property. if you set that to a specific number only, that is done as pixel size. if you put a percentage sign after the number, then that will conform to the window dimensions.

example...

<table width="31">
that will make the table 31 pixels in size.

<table width="25%">
that will make the table 25 percent the size of the current screen width.

thanks i will try that :)