Pages out of whack

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Why is it that when I design a website on my computer it looks fine, and then
when others view it from their computers it looks all out of line and out of
whack?

Can someone please help me a little with this? I appreciate it.

Thanks
 
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| Why is it that when I design a website on my computer it looks fine, and
then
| when others view it from their computers it looks all out of line and out
of
| whack?
|
| Can someone please help me a little with this? I appreciate it.
|
| Thanks
 
You're using absolute positioning. One of the problems with absolute
positioning, if you're not very experienced with it you can have a lot of
issues. Your text is determining it's position based upon the top left
corner of the browser window. If the browser window is larger than yours,
you'll end up with the next appearing off to the side as is the case here.
It may be easier to do this by using tables instead. For pages that need an
image behind the text, you'll have to set the background of the table to be
the image. In table cells that don't have text over the images, simply place
the image into the cell (this method helps ensure the size of the cell
better than it would if you used it as the background of a cell.
 
Holy Cow.

Don't use layers, textboxes, wordart, anything from FP's Draw toolbar or you
may end up with what you have. They rely on VML and absolute
positioning...the VML stuff is proprietary to IE browsers only so they don't
show well in any other browsers if at all.

Layers is what's causing all your floating sliced images.

one page .. Donors has like 20 head sections there should only be one.

You've got quite a re-do on your hands.




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| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
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| > Show us the website, post the URL.
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| >
| > | > | Why is it that when I design a website on my computer it looks fine,
and
| > then
| > | when others view it from their computers it looks all out of line and
out
| > of
| > | whack?
| > |
| > | Can someone please help me a little with this? I appreciate it.
| > |
| > | Thanks
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| >
| >
 
I'm having a similar issue -- is there a standard screen size I should plan
for? If I'm using tables, how do I know what size to limit them to? Thanks!

Shannon
 
The size you design for depends on your audience, and your content.
Global stats show that 10% of users have screen resolutions of 800x600
or smaller. But, and it's a big "but", screen resolution only sets the
MAXIMUM size of the browser window - lots of users have their browsers
open in small windows, especially those with high resolution or wide
screens.
I design for browsers opened to 800x600 - which means a maximum usable
width of 760 pixels (allowing for scrollbars and chrome). This is
acceptable on browsers opened to 1280x1024, but looks a little lost in
larger sizes (but who uses a browser wider than 1280px? - 1 or 2
percent, perhaps.)

Also bear in mind that long lines of text are difficult to read. I find
lines longer than 500px get uncomfortable, unless the text is large.
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It appears you are using images for everything, instead of any text. Why?
This will be a serious download time issue for many people.
 
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