web pages

[crabcake]

Alright ... this is frustrating the heck outta me. I have a 19-inch monitor. I'm designing pages. When they come up on a normal sized monitor (15"), they have a scroll thing along the bottom.

How do I set the page settings to "autofit" in the particular window for the computer that pulls it up?

Also, would I be easier off designing the pages in something Microsoft Word or stick with Macromedia Contribute? This stuff is kickin' my azz.

[Kain99]

Originally posted by tatercake
How do I set the page settings to "autofit" in the particular window for the computer that pulls it up?

If only it worked like that.....

Call me when ya get home.

[crabcake]

like hell, i'm calling you now!

[Tonio]

Originally posted by tatercake
like hell, i'm calling you now!

What's the resolution of the monitor? I design my pages to fit on an 800x600 screen. To play it safe, I use a design table with a width of 750px. Macromedia Dreamweaver lists an 800x600 monitor as showing 760x420 of content area in the browser window.

If you need to design for 640x480, the browser only can show 600x300.

[crabcake]

Kain ... you're the woman!

[Kain99]

Originally posted by tatercake
like hell, i'm calling you now!

See ya think I was being super nice to ya but as soon as you said "Beer" I thought Dayum! This is gonna work for me!

[Toxick]

Originally posted by tatercake
Alright ... this is frustrating the heck outta me. I have a 19-inch monitor. I'm designing pages. When they come up on a normal sized monitor (15"), they have a scroll thing along the bottom.

How do I set the page settings to "autofit" in the particular window for the computer that pulls it up?

Browsers are always set to autofit.

Also, it's not the screen size (19" vs. 15") that's changing, so much as the screen resolution (1024x768 vs. 800x600) that's gotcha.

Now, if you're getting a scrollbar, then you've added tables, or frames or something, and you are forcing at least one cell or column to be at least a specific width.

If you're going to do this, you're going to have to do one of two things - go to the lowest common denominator: 640x480 (eesh), or accept the fact that some people are going to get scrollbars.

Originally posted by tatercake
Also, would I be easier off designing the pages in something Microsoft Word or stick with Macromedia Contribute? This stuff is kickin' my azz.

Best designing tool for webpages: Notepad.

If you want color coded HTML tags and such, try Crimson Editor.

[Tonio]

Good stuff, Toxick. I use a combination of Dreamweaver and hand-coding. I've also used Microsoft FrontPage for site management. At home I use HTML Kit.

[Kain99]

Originally posted by Toxick
Browsers are always set to autofit.

Right.... but one must speak TC to understand what she was saying... Thank you, for your valuable time.

[crabcake]

Originally posted by Kain99
Right.... but one must speak TC to understand what she was saying... Thank you, for your valuable time.

TC-ese? What, I get my own language after exceeding a certain post count?