Help With Screen Resolution - HTML Forums

rockonk5 · 07-04-2009, 03:10 PM

Alright I am new to this and I just finshed a fairly elaborate site for a buddy of mine. However, I didn't realise I was setting the whole site up under my screen resolution which is 1680x1050. Is there any way to make the site automatically adapt to different screen resolutions without me having to change every page I made. Please Help !!!

Sawtooth500 · 07-04-2009, 03:45 PM

Well, you could NOT make your site a fixed width... for example htmlforums.com is not a fixed width, then the site would automatically adapt to screen resolution, or another rule of thumb (if you want the site centered, to center the site you must give it a fixed width) is not to exceed 1004 px in width. The smallest commonly used resolution is 1024x768, so by not exceeding 1004 px in width your site will just fit into the smallest resolution and be good for larger resolutions as well.

rockonk5 · 07-04-2009, 06:51 PM

okay, what I am saying is this is the first site I've done. I don;t know anything about fixed width or anything.....is there anything I can change or modify so I don't have to totally redesign the whole site????

Sawtooth500 · 07-04-2009, 06:55 PM

What's the URL of the site?

rockonk5 · 07-04-2009, 07:22 PM

www.kamloopsautopro.com its made with NvU if that helps.....

Sawtooth500 · 07-04-2009, 08:18 PM

You have tables with assigned widths that are very wide... the widest one I could find was 1500 some pixels....

So those elements are stretching the page out horizontally. Rule of thumb is that you do not want your widest element to be any wider than 1004 px, so you're going to have to take your tables and narrow them down.

This may require a lot of redesign on your part if you planned to have your tables that wide, but there is no other way to fix your width problem.