Webpages too big for smaller monitors

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I created a website and it looks great on my computer at home - we have a 19
monitor at home - when I view it at work w/ the smaller monitor, the pages
are too big. How do I modify the pages to fit correctly on size monitor?
Thanks
 
The size of the monitor has little to do with how the page renders - a
15inch screen set at 800x600px will render a page exactly the same as a
32inch screen with a screen resolution of 800x600 (the larger screen may be
readable from a mile away, but the page layout will be identical). The
rendering will also be identical to that in a screen with a resolution of
1280x1024, where the browser is opened to 800x600. The screen resolution
sets the *maximum* size for the browser, the browser portal size sets the
way the page renders - with or without scrollbars. To make your page fit on
screens with smaller browser portals (measured in pixels, not inches) you
have to adjust the widths of all the HTML elements that have widths to make
them fit. Depending on how you designed your pages (simple table layout or,
the other extreme, absolute positioning) this will be easy, or very
difficult.

Without seeing the pages no further guidance can be given.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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