HTML - Screen Resolutions [was Very Basic Question]
Im designing a new site and I was kind of wondering a few things that I was hoping to get some answers to. I wasnt sure where this should be posted so if its in the wrong spot please accept my appology. So I do know I want to do alot of css and make it look very professional.
1) I remember at one time that you should make the site big enough to accomidate an 800x600 resolution. But considering that 1024x768 and bigger is pretty common place should I be scaling up to that or still stay at 800x600? Similar TutorialsHi, I am a photographer and am trying to build my own site. Am using dreamweaver 8 and am ok using it, but my html is a little rubbish. have been developing my site, www.robertallenweddingphotography.co.uk, however just realised i have been developing at 1024x768 but if you look at the site at a lower or higher resolution it looks v.bad. Have read a few bits and pieces about using % instead of set pixels?! but am a bit lost! Can any body point me in the right direction? Basically want to end up with a site that looks 'correct' to as many people as possible! Thanks Rob Hi! I'm having a problem with my website on larger screens. My website looks fine on my 1024 by 768 screen, but when I check it on higher resolution screens, all the content is stuck in the upper left corner leaving a big void on the right. How would I make my content appear in the middle of the screen like most modern websites? Or is there another solution that somebody can propose? Thank you for your time! I placed an image in the backround of a table on my page. It looks fine on my computer with a square monitor set at 1024x768 pix. When I viewed it on another monitor, a wide screen it displayed about half of my image to the right of where I placed it in the table. Can this be corrected so the image looks correct in all screen resolutions? Here is a link to the page in question. It's the motor in the upper left. The image name is: log2.gif http://cb750sandcastonly.com/new/ Thank You. I normally work in Flash which is much more intuitive for me. I am making and effort to design more in HTML. Here is the most basic of questions.. When doing designs in Photoshop or Illustrator, what is the best way to save slices. Gif or Jpeg. Are there tutorials or personal comment on the forum about the best practice for slicing sites. Thanks! edit: Problem solved, how do I delete this thread? I want to create a two column table that, in one of the rows, has a large picture in the second column. I wanted to "wrap" the picture in a <div> and give the div scroll bars so the user can scroll horizontally and vertically to see the entire picture, but still keep the width of the table as the same size as the width of the browser window. The div part seems to work fine. The large picture appears in the smaller div and the div has the scroll bars that I want. But, the table is still sized to contain the ENTIRE width of the photo, so the other rows in the table go off the edge of the browser window (because the image is wider than the browser window). Is there a way that I can limit the table width to only be the width of the browser, and have a large photo contained in a scrolling div, within one of the table rows. I will include some basic HTML code to demonstrate the problem. Just insert a path to some large image you might have, for testing, into the image tag's src property. (the image I am using is 1600x1200) Thanks, in advance, for any help you can provide. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Test a Large Image in a Table</title> </head> <body> <table style="border-bottom-width:thin"> <tr style="width:300px;"> <td style="width:20%; background-color:gray"> Title #1 </td> <td style="width:80%; background-color:red""> Why does this row go past the edge of the page? </td> </tr> <tr style="width:300px;"> <td style="width:20%; background-color:gray"> Title #2 </td> <td style="width:80%"> <div style="overflow:auto; max-width:60em; min-width:15em;"> <img src="" alt="some large image" /> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> Hi, I am creating a one page site that uses an iframe to display the other pages. So I create an index.html with an iframe in it and drawing an initial 'page': <iframe src="pages/welcome.php" name="carter-fairfax" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="900px" height="910px"></iframe> I then create another 'page' on the site and link to it using the following: <li><a href="pages/who-we-are.php" target="carter-fairfax" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="900px" height="500px">who we are</a></li> Everything displays fine except that there is a good deal of white space at the bottom, obviously because there is a difference in the height of the iframe - is there an elegant way to get round this problem. I do have the containing div height set to auto. Many thanks, Keith Hulse Hi guys, I am trying to help my friend figure out what is going on with his (VERY BASIC) website. I believe that he created it using dreamweaver originally, and then tampered with the code a little. The problem is as follows: The website seems to display perfectly as intended on mac ( safari) however when viewed on PC wit internet explorer the frames do not not work properly, They are opening in different windows etc. I know that no-on ould ever recommend building a site like this with frames, but would recommend iframes etc, however i ws wondering if there is a flaw in the code that can be fixed to resolve his problem simply? Thanks for even taking the time to read this, any helpful advice would be most appreciated! the code is as follows: The code titled "main" the main piece of code, then the coodes titled "top", "middle" and "bottom" are the codes for the respective frames. MAIN: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title></title> </head> <frameset rows="67,*,74" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0"> <frameset cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0"> <frame src="topframe.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" name="topFrame" /> </frameset> <frameset cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0"> <frame src="midframe.html" name="mainFrame" name="mainFrame" title=""mainFrame" target="_self" /> </frameset> <frameset cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0"> <frame src="bottomframe.html" name="bottomFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" name="bottomFrame" /> </frameset> </frameset> <noframes><body> </body> </noframes></html> TOP: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: #A890AE; background-image: url(Images/maze%20strip%20top.jpg); } .style1 {font-size: 8px} --> </style> <script type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x; } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } // function FP_preloadImgs() {//v1.0 var d=document,a=arguments; if(!d.FP_imgs) d.FP_imgs=new Array(); for(var i=0; i<a.length; i++) { d.FP_imgs[i]=new Image; d.FP_imgs[i].src=a[i]; } } function FP_swapImgRestore() {//v1.0 var doc=document,i; if(doc.$imgSwaps) { for(i=0;i<doc.$imgSwaps.length;i++) { var elm=doc.$imgSwaps[i]; if(elm) { elm.src=elm.$src; elm.$src=null; } } doc.$imgSwaps=null; } } function FP_swapImg() {//v1.0 var doc=document,args=arguments,elm,n; doc.$imgSwaps=new Array(); for(n=2; n<args.length; n+=2) { elm=FP_getObjectByID(args[n]); if(elm) { doc.$imgSwaps[doc.$imgSwaps.length]=elm; elm.$src=elm.src; elm.src=args[n+1]; } } } function FP_getObjectByID(id,o) {//v1.0 var c,el,els,f,m,n; if(!o)o=document; if(o.getElementById) el=o.getElementById(id); else if(o.layers) c=o.layers; else if(o.all) el=o.all[id]; if(el) return el; if(o.id==id || o.name==id) return o; if(o.childNodes) c=o.childNodes; if(c) for(n=0; n<c.length; n++) { el=FP_getObjectByID(id,c[n]); if(el) return el; } f=o.forms; if(f) for(n=0; n<f.length; n++) { els=f[n].elements; for(m=0; m<els.length; m++){ el=FP_getObjectByID(id,els[n]); if(el) return el; } } return null; } --> </script> </head> <body onload="FP_preloadImgs(/*url*/'Images/image-g.gif'); MM_preloadImages('Images/discography-black.gif','Images/images-black.gif','Images/text-black.gif','Images/download-black 45pt.gif','Images/download-g.gif','Images/download-b.gif','Images/image-g.gif','Images/text-g.gif')"> <div align="center"><img src="Images/divider.gif" alt="." width="65" height="33" /><a href="download.html" target="mainFrame" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('download','','Images/download-g.gif',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="Images/download-b.gif" name="download" width="205" height="10" border="0" id="download" /></a><img src="Images/divider.gif" width="30" height="33" /><a href="images.html" target="mainFrame"><img src="Images/image-b.gif" name="images" width="124" height="10" border="0" id="images" onmouseout="FP_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,1,/*id*/'images',/*url*/'Images/image-g.gif')" /></a><img src="Images/divider.gif" width="30" height="33" /><a href="text.html" target="mainFrame" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('text','','Images/text-g.gif',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="Images/text-b.gif" name="text" width="104" height="10" border="0" id="text" /></a><img src="Images/divider.gif" alt="." width="65" height="33" /><a href="midframe.html" target="mainFrame"></a></div> </body> </html> MIDDLE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>untitled</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-image: url(); } .style1 { border-width: 0px; } --> </style> <base target="_self" /> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <p> </p> <p><a target="mainFrame" href="download.html"> <img alt="" src="Images/doomsayercoverthumb.jpg" width="319" height="319" class="style1" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </body> </html> BOTTOM: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>untitled</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: url(Images/maze%20strip%20bottom.jpg); } .style1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; } .style2 {font-size: 10px} .style4 {font-size: 12px} --> </style></head> <body> <div align="center" class="style1"> <p class="style2"> </p> <span class="style4">last updated 08/12/2011</span></div> </body> </html> hi, I'd like to say that I'm extremely new to xhtml and CSS, so please bare with me. My question is simple, consider I have this code HTML Code: <table class="mainTable" border="0" cellspacing="30"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><b><a class="button" href="l1.html" target="_blank">Link1</a></b></p> </td> <td> <p><b><a class="button" href="l2.html" target="_blank">Link2</a></b></p> </td> <td> <p><b><a class="button" href="l3.html" target="_blank">Link 3</a></b></p> </td> <td> <p><b><a class="button" href="l4.html" target="_blank">Link 4</a></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> 1) what does target="_blank" mean? 2) My intention is to place this table in the upper center of the screen. How can I center the table ? 3) The height on each cell in this table is huge, how can I decrease the height of the cells? Thanks Hi! This is my first post here. I am a part time web designer, (I must admit, better with the graphics than the coding). I am designing a page and I want the background to be black for say 1000 pixels down, and then white after that. How do I accomplish this? Does anyone know an easy way to create backgrounds with several tones? Thanks... Cosmos I am in the process of writing a spell-checker in PHP, but repeatedly stumble due to my less than perfect knowledge of HTML basics. (1) What's the most straightforward way to open a second page on top of the currently active one? Is it via JavaScript, or can it be done using HTML itself? (2) If I need to update a text area on the original page at the time I close the overlying one, is this again best done by JavaScript? My aim in both of the above is to avoid adding any code to the underlying page, other than the addition of a "SpellCheck" button and the coding associated with that. Many thanks for any pointers. Hi, In microsoft word you can make the text go all the way across the page so that the beginning of each line and end of each line are inline with the one above and below, if you know what I mean. I can't remember what it is called. But it basically adds small amounts of space between each letter so it goes all the way across. How is this done in HTML/CSS if it can be done? Thank you as always, Ash Ok, I'm new to this stuff. But I'm learning. How wide do you want to set your width of your webpage in pixels? 1000px, 1200px, or what? I'm working in dreamweaver and I have a big screen monitor and I have the resoultion at 1920x1080. I'm am guessing based on my experience you should use high screen resolutions, but I'm not sure how much to set the [wrapper] width in the CSS settings. I look at web pages with a 1920x1080 resolution and they strech all the way across the screen, but except the middle part. The middle part I'm guessing is at a smaller px size. I'm guessing it could be at a 1000px width. Am I'm right here? But this part is what i'm trying to figure out here. How do you make a page be viewed on a big resolution page like at 1920x1080 resolution and make it compatible with all of the other screen resolutions. Any Expert Advice or Very Helpful Hints Will Help Me Very Much, Thanks, Chris Clark Hi all im really new to html. I guess this question is really basic to the expert html ers but just need a bit of help. I want to add some text say i got a <p> tag and want to write just a sentance such as .. <p>I am learning html, it uses tags like this <a,b> which can load images etc. </p> of course a,b isnt a tag, but if i load this basic text in a web browser it would ignore the <a,b> and come up as validation error in the validator. So pretty much is there a way around of displaying <any letters or words> without the browser thinking its some sort of tag? thanks for the help! Can someone please help me? How do I move the entire image up on following index page: www.AndyG.com Note that there is a one inch gap between top of computer screen and top of image...I just want to move image way up to top... Thanks a lot! Andy I placed all my adsense ads into iFrames but when I resize the window small all the ads are pushed to the middle of the screen. How can I make them stay put. I tried working with divs too but it makes the ads the highest layer and it makes an invisible border stretching across the screen and I cant click anything thats in that border range. heres some of my code: <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style2.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> </head> <center> <head> <title>BIO</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> </tr> </table> <!-- End ImageReady Slices --> <iframe src="/adsense.htm" width="120px" height="600px" frameborder="0" style="position:relative;Left:1173;bottom:865" marginwidth ="0px" marginheight="0px" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe src="/adsense2.htm" width="120px" height="600px" frameborder="0" style="position:relative;Left:-92;bottom:865" marginwidth ="0px" marginheight="0px" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe src="/adsense3.htm" width="728px" height="90px" frameborder="0" style="position:relative;Left:50;bottom:518" marginwidth ="0px" marginheight="0px" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe src="/adsense4.htm" width="336px" height="280px" frameborder="0" style="position:relative;Left:195;bottom:1560" marginwidth ="0px" marginheight="0px" scrolling="no"></iframe> </body> </center> </html> Looks fine. Does not look fine. The first picture was fine because it was viewed with a 1024x768 resolution(which is the resolution that I'm working on my website with). However, any higher resolutions, and you'll see that the video goes out of place and moves too much to the right(second pic). I need to make it so that the video scales with all resolutions so it stays in place like in the first picture, no matter what the resolution is. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Please be specific, i.e. what code? Thank you. Hi guys, Been struggling with this for a few days so here's to hoping someone with a better knowledge of HTML can help me out! I've recently put up a little website to (hopefully) get a bit of freelancing work, but noticed when I checked it on a friend's computer that it looks really screwy on resolutions other than the one on my own computer. As in, everything gets scrunched up in the corner leaving a good half of the screen blank. I know the way around this is usually to convert sizes from pixels to percentages in the HTML code, but the inlet frame on the website refuses to cooperate with the percentage-based sizes. I really want this website to fit all resolutions so it looks professional & the way it should. Can anyone help me?? The website's at http://solar-flare.biz so you can get the code there. It's probably a bit of a mess coz I made it with Frontpage then tweaked it manually to get the background to stretch.... but anyway. Massive kudos in advance to anyone who can fix the code!!! Cheers Mateusz www.intoleranceclothing.com So this is not my expertise to say the least. My page looks fine on my resolution at home (1280x768) but of course does not look as intended on any other resolution. I have a few problems I'm trying to learn how to fix or control. 1) If you click the images of the shirts I want the popup to be centered in the x position and slightly below y center so the "Intolerance Clothing" still shows when the large picture is up. What would be the easiest way to go about this? Is there a way to set absolute position measured from the center of the page or how would I go about this? 2) Kind of along the same lines. The smaller pictures of the shirts align right up to the background image edges in my resolution. How can I go about positioning them so they are always the same location even if the resolution changes. Basically if the resolution gets bigger I'd like everything to just stay as is and add more black solid space around the image. 3) Another smaller change I'd like to make is currently the viewer has to click the larger image for it to close and they cannot bring up another lager image until it is closed. What do I need to modify to allow the larger image to be replaced by a new one if a different shirt is clicked? Thanks for any suggestions on where to go read or look to help solve these issues or if someone is kind enough to point me in the right direction. |