resolution size with internet explorer

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Hello, some of my site visitors those you have 15 inches screen complainted
that have to scroll back and forth to see things. I know that I use 12 points
font size as I know some of my site visitors are elderly but is this too big?
Also what is the resolution size I should use? I use FP2002. My website is
www.helitown.com
 
Resolution is not the variable you need to be concerned about. It's how
wide is the browser viewport. Obviously on a screen of any given
resolution, you cannot conveniently have a browser viewport that is wider
than the screen. On a given resolution screen, however, I can have a
browser viewport set at any value from the maximum allowed on that
resolution down to the minimum value allowed (100px, I think). So, tell me
this - what is the widest content on your page?
 
A lot of users that have 15" monitors can only support 640x480 resolution.
Even if they can support a higher resolution, chances are that it's either
too small to read, or the user doesn't know about changing resolutions.
Forget formatting the text, that's not the only problem. The main problem is
going to be the width of the page itself. For a 15" monitor, that's probably
going to mean your page must be about 536 pixels wide. That's not much at
all. Basically, that's the same as the page being as wide as a little less
than putting two copies of your rc chopper photo that's on the front page
next to eachother.

I would say that any web site that these users go to will have this problem.
Most users who are on the web are using at least 800x600 resolution and more
moving to 1024x768 with each computer shipped. You may want to drop your
monitor down to a lower resolution to get a better idea at how your page is
viewed by those users.

Basically though, if these users represent only a small portion of your
viewing audience, then it's not worth the time and expense to support them.
These users should be used to this issue though simply because 99.99% of web
sites are designed for resolutions higher than theirs.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
For starters you have one table with a width of 1268--that'll make people
scroll right! In code/HTML view search for "<table width=1268" and change
the width to 100%. See if that helps. There may be other widths that are
"out of whack", so look at all widths on the page and adjust accordingly.
 
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