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Curtis
09-20-2002, 07:29 AM
Hi there.

I'm currently redesigning my site and wanted to get some opinions on screen resolution. Should I design my pages for a specific resolution? I want my pages to look good for all my visitors but short of making a different page for every resolution I'm not sure how I should do this.

Should I define table widths by percent? So far I've been using pixels. At the top of my page I have a banner and a menu that's aligned left. Looking at it at 800x600 it looks ok but if I view my pages with a higher resolution it has a lot of white space on the right.

So basically my question is what's the best way to make my site look good for all resolutions. What does everyone else do?

TIA,
Curtis
Mhtml
09-20-2002, 07:41 AM
I always try to design for all browser types-
<table width="100%">
ronaldb66
09-20-2002, 09:46 AM
I personally find a fluid layout the most elegant, that is a layout the adjusts to the available window width.
As mentioned, one way to achieve this is using a table set at 100% width.
Of course it's not pratical to take any possible resolution into account, but having it still fit for 640x480, optimising it for 800x600, and fluidily adjusting it to anything higher would be excellent.
tommysphone
09-20-2002, 05:30 PM
Loadsa work but at least you know it will work.

Detect screen reolution and open the relvant pages for that resolution.
oracleguy
09-20-2002, 05:34 PM
Originally posted by tommysphone

Detect screen reolution and open the relvant pages for that resolution.

That is a good idea, creating seperate pages for each resolution is inefficent. Unless the site's content is database driven.

See: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4985
And...
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2021
ddubs
09-21-2002, 08:59 PM
FOR A GOOD FREE DOWNLOADABLE ASP SCREEN RES ....look here (http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10160.html)
Curtis
10-06-2002, 05:41 AM
Thanks for your opinions guys.

I have one more question on this. What's the best way to detect screen resolution. I've seen lots of different scripts before, but I'm looking for the best. I'm planning on using it with php so one that I can easily work into a php would be best.

TIA,
Curtis