I need to make my website appear the same on all computers. anyone

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Guys i appreciate your help. I created my website from my laptop, and
everything appeared fine until i started going on other computers and found
that the page size is so huge, that theres actually scroll bars on sides and
bottom. It makes things hard because in order to read things, you now have
to use the side to side scroll button, and thats ridiculous.
Question... Shouldnt your page adjust, no matter what the viewer has thier
settings on, and no matter what computer its being viewed on? I mean, I dont
see these problems with professional websites, and this is making my website
look very amateur.
What is it that I have to do to make my frontpage website adjust size and
dimensions on all computers?
I went to "page size" under the view tab. I changed the size around and
experimented a little but the problem still persists.
 
The only thing that I believe you can do is in view menue set the page size
and then see if it works. If I find out anything else I will let you know.
 
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: Guys i appreciate your help. I created my website from my
laptop, and
: everything appeared fine until i started going on other
computers and found
: that the page size is so huge, that theres actually scroll
bars on sides and
: bottom. It makes things hard because in order to read
things, you now have
: to use the side to side scroll button, and thats
ridiculous.

--> Many people have their systems setup with different
screen resolutions for various reasons. Someone who's
machine is set up for 640x480 will see everything about 2.5
times larger than if their resulution was 1024x768

: Question... Shouldnt your page adjust, no matter what the
viewer has thier
: settings on, and no matter what computer its being viewed
on? I mean, I dont
: see these problems with professional websites, and this is
making my website
: look very amateur.
: What is it that I have to do to make my frontpage website
adjust size and
: dimensions on all computers?
: I went to "page size" under the view tab. I changed the
size around and
: experimented a little but the problem still persists.

The best way to 'auto-size' your page to various sizes is to
define sizes as a percentage, and never as an absolute. A
common way to do this is to put everything in a table and
set the table size to ~90%, which will leave a nice margin
for you
 
This is one of the hardest questions to answer in web development. Different
browsers on different operating systems, with different screen resolutions,
and different color resolutions, and a variety of window sizes to boot.

The short answer is, there is no way to make the web look the same in all
browsers on all computers. The long answer is, yes, there are ways to
mimimize the differences. How you do this is not a question that anyone else
can answer. I can tell you some of the choices you can make, but various
professional web sites do this differently.

First, you have a choice between liquid layout and fixed layout. Liquid
layout is when the various elements in a page adjust themselves to fit the
screen resolution, browser window size, etc. It is highly challenging, as
there are limits to how small your elements can get without pushing each
other around, overlapping, wrapping text, etc. Fixed layout is when the
pages use all absolutely-set sizes and positions. This is easier to do, and
many professional sites go this way. And of course, they can be mixed to a
certain extent. But none of it is easy to do well.

Second, you have the choice of using HTML tables to do your layout, or
"pure" CSS. With HTML tables, the layout requires less skill to do, but is
less changeable, such as, for example, in the future, when you want to
change the overall look of your entire web site. With CSS, you can use a
single external CSS Style sheet for many pages, and make all changes to the
look and feel via the Style sheet. An excellent example of this can be found
at http://www.csszengarden.com/. All of the pages on the site are the same
content, using different style sheets, and it's amazing. It's also quite
hard to master.

Finally, you can use JavaScript and/or ASP.Net to sniff out the browser and
some of the client-side environmental conditions, such as screen resolution,
browser type, etc., and you can get really granular about how you adjust to
the client. Again, this is not an easy thing to master.

There are other factors as well, but these are the majors.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Chicken Salad Alchemist

Big thicks are made up of lots of little thins.
 
Mr Spencer, thank you for taking time to explain these things to me. I
wanted to build a website for my business, but I am far from a website
designer. The information you provided was amazing, however, very technical
for a guy like me. I will read your response a hundred times, and maybe
figure out which option would be best/easiest to achieve. Thank you again.
 
Mike Thank you for taking time to respond, and helping me out. I guess that
makes me feel better, because those are things that are out of my control.
thanks again.
 
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