Fitting page size to computer screen?

[Cheryl]

This may sound TOTALLY goofy, BUT is there some way to make my website
"fit" to different screen sizes. IN other words, on my lap top the
bottom looks cut off, on my 17" screen there's too much empty space at
the bottom. Maybe that's just the way it is, and I've never noticed
it until I created my own website, but I thought I'd ask.

My website is www.aboutterrabella.com.

It was created with frontpage and an add-in, Swishmax.

Thanks

Cheryl

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

the only way I've seen it done (if I'm understanding you right) is to do the
whole site in flash and it'll "expand" or "contract" based on available
screen space.
a site constructed this way has limitations that outweigh the novelty of
"stretchiness". IMHO.

HTH

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[Ronx]

A web page has no dimensions. It is as wide as the browser and as high as
needed to get from top to bottom of the page. It will either fit on the
screen, or scroll off it.

You can control the width of the content (up to a point) by using a fixed
width table, for example. But the height is controlled by the content in
the page.

Look at http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=39

 

[Andrew Murray]

Chris,
isn't the solution to build everything inside a table and set the percentage to
say 98%, then whatever the resolution of a person's monitor, it will always fill
98% of the screen?

 

[Andrew Murray]

The green area it looks like you've created it in a table, which doesn't extend
farther than about 1/3 of the screen. If you want the green background, set the
page background as that colour (right click the page, go to Properties, then to
Background, and you can set the background colour, the general text colour and
also the hyperlink colours.

 

[Bob Lehmann]

You should be more concerned about the width than the height. At your
setting of 1000px for the width, most people are going to have to scroll
left->right to see your page.

Bob Lehmann

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Yes, I think that will help the illusion...make the bg same green as the header/footer or maybe a shade lighter.


| The green area it looks like you've created it in a table, which doesn't extend
| farther than about 1/3 of the screen. If you want the green background, set the
| page background as that colour (right click the page, go to Properties, then to
| Background, and you can set the background colour, the general text colour and
| also the hyperlink colours.
|
|
|
| | > This may sound TOTALLY goofy, BUT is there some way to make my website
| > "fit" to different screen sizes. IN other words, on my lap top the
| > bottom looks cut off, on my 17" screen there's too much empty space at
| > the bottom. Maybe that's just the way it is, and I've never noticed
| > it until I created my own website, but I thought I'd ask.
| >
| > My website is www.aboutterrabella.com.
| >
| > It was created with frontpage and an add-in, Swishmax.
| >
| > Thanks
| >
| > Cheryl
|
|

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

I guess I was kind of thinking of the "VML" type stretch where everything
stretched out maintaining the proportions of images etc.

I'm not sure now! ;-)

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