I stick w/ 740 wherever possible
See
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page2.html?tw=design
It really also depends on if you are designing the web for just the monitor or also for print
- print may require that content (usually images) not force the non-wrappable width over ~ 600 px
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"Cheryl D Wise" <wiserways.wiserways.com> wrote in message | In most cases the 750px that Thomas uses will work but since I have a tablet
| pc and know most tablet's width is a bit narrower in portrait mode I like to
| give a little bit more room. Plus there are a few oddball browsers out
| there. Even if you are a bit off in most cases it will still work with the
| bits cut off being margin/padding.
|
| As far as centering, that's personal preference but most people believe
| centered in a larger window looks better than hugging the left side. I
| usually center if I'm using a fixed width layout. The problems centering I
| referred to relate to some of the methods for centering. If you are using
| tables the easiest way to center is:
|
| <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="740" align="center">
|
| --
| Cheryl D. Wise
| MS FrontPage MVP
|
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|
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|
| | >2 follow up questions:
| >
| > 1) So just to confirm...is 740 px the most compatible table width across
| > browsers, platforms, and varying monitor sizes?
| >
| > 2) Also, you mention other problems with centering tables...what are
| > they.
| > I'm new at this. Is it better to left align? Just curious. Visually I
| > like
| > the table centered but if there is good reason not to - than I will follow
| > your lead and left align.
| >
| > Please Advise!
| > Thanks,
| > DJP
| >
| >
| > "Kevin Spencer" wrote:
| >
| >> > For those of you not speaking French I said, "Could be but I prefer
| >> > 740px
| >> > and there are other issues if you want to center the table on the
| >> > page."
| >>
| >> Ah, thank goodness! I was about to say that your answer had a certain
| >> "pate
| >> de frois gras" to it!
| >>
| >> --
| >> HTH,
| >>
| >> Kevin Spencer
| >> Microsoft MVP
| >> ..Net Developer
| >> Ambiguity has a certain quality to it.
| >>
| >> "Cheryl D Wise" <wiserways.wiserways.com> wrote in message
| >> | >> > Peut-être, mais je préfère740px et il y a d'autres issues si vous
| >> > voulez
| >> > centrer le conent.
| >> >
| >> > For those of you not speaking French I said, "Could be but I prefer
| >> > 740px
| >> > and there are other issues if you want to center the table on the
| >> > page."
| >> >
| >> > Sometimes the simplest solution is best.
| >> >
| >> > --
| >> > Cheryl D. Wise
| >> > MS FrontPage MVP
| >> >
http://mvp.wiserways.com
| >> >
http://starttoweb.com
| >> > Online instructor led web design training in FrontPage,
| >> > Dreamweaver and more!
| >> > Next Session June 26th
| >> >
| >> > | >> >> Another way to do this is set a global attribute
| >> >> body {width: 760px ;}
| >> >> n'est cé pas
| >> >> --
| >> >> Cheers,
| >> >> Trevor L., WIP (Web Interested Person)
| >> >> Website:
http://tandcl.homemail.com.au
| >> >>
| >> >> Cheryl D Wise wrote:
| >> >>> Put a width attribute on the table <table width="740px"> or right
| >> >>> click and select table properties then put a check in the width box
| >> >>> and a number of pixels in the correct box.
| >> >>>
| >> >
| >> >
| >>
| >>
| >>
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