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My computer settings are set at 1280X1024, though I have found that viewing
my site on other computers is a problem. My pictures are not centered and
other issues occur. How can I set my website to 1024X768 even if I don't
change my computer?
 
It's the size (in pixels) of the browser window that matters, not the
resolution of your monitor, or the visuitor's monitor.

You should optimize your page so it looks its best at the browser windows
size you thinlk most of your visitors will use, and then stretch your browser
window wider and narrower to verify that the page still looks OK.

If things are falling out of place when you resize the window, you've
probably used a mixtrue of free-flowing content and absolute positioning. The
usual solution is to stop using absolute positioning.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
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Though it makes sense, how do I set the size of the browser window but not my
monitor settings?
 
Open you browser, then resize the browser window, like you would any other window application.

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I know that I am missing something. If I open a browser window, then resize
it, how does that help someone else who is viewing my website with things out
of place? In Front Page 2003, is there someplace that I can say that I want
this to be 1024X768?
 
No. You can't control the browser's window size on the visitor's computer.
You can try, but the visitor will jsut resize it again.

Instead, it's your responsibility to design the page so it looks OK no
matter what the size of the visitor's browser window happens to be. That's
why you should test your pages at various widths.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*-----------------------------­-----------------------
|\----------------------------­-----------------------
|| Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||----------------------------­-----------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/----------------------------­-----------------------
*-----------------------------­-----------------------
 
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