Supporting Different Resolutions
Well, I recently posted a ? about a site of mine that I made that looked messed up while having 1024X768 resolutions. How can I make a site be compatible with 800x600 and 1024x768.
When I make a site, it ALWAYS looks messed up at 1024x768. What can I do. Any Advice?
vy22 posted this at 05:07 — 11th February 2000.
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Well I cheat!
Make sure you design the site in 800x600 and then flip between the two resolutions as you are doing the final touches, Use % in tables rather than pixels. This means that a tabe will stay the same no matter what res you have. Only prob is that if you have an image in the table you have to make sure its centred too or it will look stupid.
Don't make the graphics too big and not too small either. I could be speaking crap here but to be honest I have been doing pages for so long I can just tell what they are going to look like in differant resolutions.
A sharp eye and a lot of resolution flicking usually does the trick or you could have two entry pages!
~Vy~
Suzanne posted this at 19:05 — 11th February 2000.
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If you are using tables that resize depending on the resolution, make sure the table is relative (%) but the parts that aren't supposed to resize are absolute (px).
If you don't want the table to resize, make it an absolute pixel value and add align=center to the <table> tag so that it isn't all smushed to the left for higher resolutions.
I have a page full of suggestions and tips that I have collected and that have been donated for finding out the problem with your table (see my sig).
Cheers!
Suzanne
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