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Handy

Handy

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hey guys, I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

I'm trying to get our web page up and going and I'm getting reports that other people can't see the full page on their computers - they have to scroll it back and forth.

I dont' know if it makes any difference, but I've got a 19" monitor and I can see it fine.

I know that somewhere in Front Page you can make the page width smaller,but I'm not sure where, and I don't know what the proper size is to make it.

Help?
 
Thanks Ruth,

by any chance do you know what your screen resolution is set at?
 
I have a small monitor so I had to scroll - about 2" or so.

And don't ask me about Frontpage - I fight with it all the time and it doesn't give an inch!!! LOL!
 
are you still up? Can you take a look now?

thanks!
 
I'm still up, Handy. I have a small screen too. The page is smaller than it was awhile ago when I checked, before you did whatever you did, the photos and text don't need to be scrolled now, as they did before, but the page title "Total Image" at the very top does.
 
It looks great at 1024x768, which is pretty much the standard minimum resolution people use these days. I doubt many people use 800x600 any more, but this may be why the person is seeing things scroll off the right side of their screen.

I would ask them what their resolution setting is. They may benefit from changing it to 1024x768. Many sites design for this size now, as you have.

Mike
 
I'll be dipped, I figured out how to resize my screen(1024x768...right click on the desk top, then left click on Properties, then on Settings, then change it)) and your front page title banner fits in nicely now. Mike was right!

Only problem is, it reduced everything else, text here, etc, to a point that I have to go get my reading glasses, so I'll probably put it back to where it was. But nice to know I now have a choice!

* Changed it back to 800x600....ah, that's better.

Thanks Mike! I learned something early today!
 
You can also have the best of both worlds:

a)Change it back to 1024x768 (right click on wallpaper -> properties -> settings)

b)In the web browser, click on VIEW -> TEXT SIZE -> experiment with the 5 sizes
Shortcut way: Hold CTRL key while you spin the mouse wheel
 
You can also change the Windows Font size under Appearance. Also, your display adapter may have a setting (possibly under "Advanced") for DPI.
 
My 12" monitor (laptop) is set at 1024x768 and the site looks fine - no scrolling necessary.

If you want the full page visible to people using an 800 x 600 resolution, the source of the problem is probably here:

<body background="_themes/sandra-s-web/faded%20fabric.jpg" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" text="#000000" link="#3333FF" vlink="#333399" alink="#3399FF"><!--mstheme--><font face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica"><!--mstheme--></font><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="970">

This is part of the html code from your home page. The table width setting of 970 for your background image is an absolute sizing. That means that it will be 970 pixels no matter what monitor resolution the user has.

Often webmasters will set these main settings as 100% rather than an absolute sizing so that the page will flex to fit the resolution and size of the monitor. The downside is that a variable page width means that if you have any items defined with an absolute width on the page, the rest of the page will squash. As an example, take a look at my site: http://www.greyfoxgallery.com. Grab the corner of the browser window and slide it back and forth, and you'll see the tabs on the left stay the same, but the area where the moose painting is displayed grows and shrinks - but only up to the point that I defined an absolute size for the moose painting.

After saying all that, I don't know anything about how to use Frontpage. I write all my own html. You can try manually changing that fixed width reference and see what the effect is on your site. There may also be a setting in frontpage that allows you to define variable and absolute widths.

Hope this helps a little.
 
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