My website and dodgy resolutions

[J1mmy]

I uploaded my website on my secondary PC. The screen for that PC is fairly distant to me so the resolution is low, so everything appears massive.

Anyway, I uploaded the site to the server, and accessed it. Due to the resolution the site was quite big, and required me to scroll across, which i found wasnt right. I visited a few other sites and they didnt need me to scroll across, only up and down.

What can I do to the pages so that they will work at any resolution, without the site haveing to be scrolled across to view everything. I hope its not major, I dont want to rebuild everything again.

[nikkiH]

Use relative sizes, such as percentages, for tables, divs, and such. Use relative sizes for fonts, such as em or "smaller".

[mlseim]

Users can also change the font size on their browser, which you
don't have control over. Under "View", "Text-Size" they can make
all fonts larger or smaller.

[J1mmy]

Im not sure how to find out what is set, I don't know if Im working with pixels or percentages in Dreamweaver.

How can I find out?

If you mean the pixels property in the properties box at the bottom, I havent been paying much attention to that at all. Infact, all Ive been doing it resizing my tables accordingly to how I want them, I havent been specifing figures for the pixels/percentages.

[Pennimus]

Dreamweaver will set a pixel value for you if you manually drag resize elements. It seems you've approached this all wrong I'm afraid and you may need a large overhaul to get a fluid website out of this.

[J1mmy]

Dreamweaver will set a pixel value for you if you manually drag resize elements. It seems you've approached this all wrong I'm afraid and you may need a large overhaul to get a fluid website out of this.

Couldnt I just go back and specify a percentage insted, via the properties box?

[nikkiH]

Couldnt I just go back and specify a percentage insted, via the properties box?

Yes. But unless you used templates, you have to do it for EVERY page and every element.
Start using CSS. Your life will be a LOT easier.
DW can create the CSS for you.

[J1mmy]

Yes. But unless you used templates, you have to do it for EVERY page and every element.
Start using CSS. Your life will be a LOT easier.
DW can create the CSS for you.

I tried to use templates, then i ditched the whole idea becuase I was getting error messages (http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=99531). So each page has been created seperately, though it has the same layout.

What kind of elements would I need to edit, I have mainly tables, a few images and text the these pages.

If theres any CSS to edit, its going to have to be done via DW's interface, Im not to confident with the coding part of it. Infact, the CSS is i recognise is the ability to implement styles, rollovers, I didnt know it had anything to do with the layout.

Okay, now that you know the situation, from this point what do I do now?