Ok, so I have read through the answers and it looks like I'm screwed. I made a site that looked too small for the wide screens out now so I re did it at the 1280 resolution. Its just too wide. An overall resize will take forever. Any quick easy fixes lately? Already tried the relative horizontal & the center page but to no avail. The site is www.luccis-korner.com.

Yes, 1280 is far too wide. I think you would only use that for special sites that require it, or if you are designing a site for specific users.

I am not aware of any quick fix for your issue (though I have been proved to be wrong before).

My only suggestion is that if you have objects that are on every page, select those and use the “Include” option. That way, when you move them, they will be moved on every page.

I am afraid you will have to individually move all other objects individually. I presume a lot of those will also need resizing to fit.

Have fun . . .

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Originally posted by KV:
it looks like I'm screwed.

Pourquoi?! Surely you can resize (drag the left and right borders in) and reset to a smaller size?

There's really no need to go to the 800 x 600 standard we used to talk about IMHO, as my StatCounter stats clearly show that most users are way beyond that.

If you have 'included' those objects, perhaps it could just be a simple change and a re-upload?

mccifa

Hi. I'd build to 1024 wide but actually build the site at 1004 px wide and have a background colour. Also I'd center the page horizontally so that it looks good.

Why 1004? because if you build to 1024 and you need a vertical scroll bar, then when it appears, you'll also get an irritating little horizontal scroll bar. - you may need to twiddle this dim slightly.

This way 1280 and larger (I'm looking at 1440 just now) see a nicely presented site and those on 800 wide should get a bigger monitor as the world ~really~ has moved on.

Highest common factor rather than lowest common denominator?

One other thing, I'd put a selection of your best selling or best looking products on the home page - get people excited by what you sell right up front

G

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I actually have a wide screen too set at 1366 X 768. I ended up redoing that whole site (luccis-korner.com) at 1024. I get a blank space on the right now though. Is that just my screen? When I center it horizontally I don't see the change after a repost. I must be doing something wrong. (Same thing on my site bocceilli.com)

To center are you using
Page/Page editor/Special effects thumb tab and select 'Center page horizontally'? and then click the All pages button?

Geek-u-like,

I suspect that KV is doing just that.

Upon checking his (her) source code, the opening div of the body code reads

<div id="centered">

which is correct, together with a matching closing DIV, and there are no mismatching DIV tags on the page in between.

So, as an amateur, I cannot detect the problem

I don't think you have set your design width to be 1024 -- it is still 1280. The setting is under Options > Project Options > General > Target Resolution.

Here's a http://justaddwater.dk/2006/08...ize-not-screen-size/ link to a discussion of browser sizes.

Hope this is useful

So I guess the opinion here is that my website is built too small and I need to go back and resize it all a bit wider? Isn't this a termendous amount of work? I only have 65 pages or so or am I just better off starting to build my new pages wider? Thanks for the help.

Jamie
www.everythingnorthwest.com

If it makes any difference my screen resolution here at work is 1280 X 768. I don't know what it is at home.

I still see many senior folks with 15 inch screens and there are many who cannot afford to go out and buy a bigger monitor. When I'm doing a website, sometimes I type javascript:window.resizeTo(800,600) in the URL field to see what would be seen with a smaller screen.

Jamie,

I think the width of your site is fine (I looked only at your index page). A tourist oriented site will tend to have more mobile visitors, and they like narrower pages. I think -- not being a mobile user myself!

I think it worth repeating: the fact that most of your visitors have a screen size of 1024 or greater should not be an invitation to fill it all up. Visitors with wide screens may well run browsers set to less than full-screen, and would be quite happy with an 800 wide site. Again, a completely unscientific opinion, based on a sample size of one.

Those two arguments favor keeping your width as it is. However there are some other issues that need attention first (index page):

1. Your Google site search code seems to be a lot wider than your design width. Consequently, you have a horizontal scroll-bar needlessly displayed on screens from about 800 to 1280 wide.

2. Your marquee doesn't work for me (in Firefox). When I tried to view your index page in IE8, it consistently crashes IE8. Ok, my IE8 is flaky; my whole Windows is flaky, so it may be just my computer. But be suspicious of the code objects you have added. The marquee works for me in Opera and Chrome, BTW.

3. You are still using SS 2.70. The latest is 2.91d -- the upgrade is free, and worth the download.

Good morning all.

I was playing url poker with a colleague and he upped the ante with a link to a site where you can set the screen size to simulate different resolutions - to see what your site looks like.

http://setmy.browsersize.com/

Saves a lot of messing about with the control panel!

Hmmm, I'm not sure that changing the browser size is exactly the same as changing the screen resolution.

It isn't but you can simulate various screen resolutions without changing the display resolution in the CP.

So if you have a 1280x1024 actual physical screen, you can simulate how your page might behave in a 1024x768 browser.

This assumes that the tool bars and icon strips are the same size in each.

If you have a wide screen, I suggest just drag in the edges of your browser window. You don't have to get an exact size, as your visitors won't have an exact 1024x768 of viewable browser space either.

I don't have an easy answer for the other direction -- to make a narrow screen act like a wide one.

Marleen's suggestion (above) to use javascript in the URL bar works just as well and lets you specify exact dimensions.

If you have Firefox, get the Web Developer plug-in. It has a built-in resize function, lets you set up a menu of various sizes, and lets you display the browser window dimensions in the title bar.