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My website homepage looks funny
Category: Computers Asked by: jude1-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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15 Sep 2003 21:55 PDT
Expires: 15 Oct 2003 21:55 PDT Question ID: 257183 |
I created my webpage in FrontPage. I was told it was best to create for an 800 X 600 resolution. But when you load the homepage on a monitor set to a higher resolution, it looks silly. The whole screen is the background color and the webpage is just a tiny little thing in the upper left hand corner. If the rest of the screen were white, I don't think it would look as bad. I am looking for a few options (solutions). | |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: serenata-ga on 15 Sep 2003 22:24 PDT |
Hi Jude1 ~
You can set the color of the background (that is, the entire window,
not just the content of the webpage) in your <body> tag by including
bgcolor="#ffffff"
within the <body> tag, or if you're using CSS, you can add it to the
appropriate style element.
You can also center your layout on the page if you feel it looks
"silly" tucked on the left-hand side, but in certain markets, many
people don't configure their web browsers at full screen, so they
really don't notice it so much as you might.
Have you tried either of those?
Serenata |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: jude1-ga on 16 Sep 2003 08:06 PDT |
Serenata, Thanks for the comment. Will that turn the whole page _including my website part_ white, or will it turn whatever is not my actual website white? Thanks! -Jude1 |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: jude1-ga on 16 Sep 2003 10:27 PDT |
My site is http://www.mammasmilk.com I can't try your solution yet, as I am not at home, but when I get home, I will try it and let you know. I use tables and CSS. |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: bio-ga on 18 Sep 2003 16:29 PDT |
It didn't look that bad to me (at 1280 x 1024)... |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: knowledge_seeker-ga on 19 Sep 2003 04:12 PDT |
Not that you asked for an opinion, but I really like the cream color better than white anyway. It's much warmer and gives a comfortable feeling the way it's all wrapped around the baby. To me it feels as though she's in a room with a soft incandescent lamp. White is stark and cold and feels corporate. Not at all conducive to making moms feel good about your product. But that's just my opinion. :-) Oh, and the screen size works great for me at 1280x1024. I prefer web content to take up less space on my screen. -K~ |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: jude1-ga on 19 Sep 2003 04:31 PDT |
Thanks for that, K. I am looking to leave the cream around the baby (wouldn't want him to get cold! :) ) But my sister told me the site looks funny with the whole screen being cream and yet the content only in the top left corner. She said the content should be cream and the empty space should be white. What do you think about that? |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: tldtms-ga on 19 Sep 2003 11:03 PDT |
Hey Jude, Here is what you want. http://www.wickedteez.com/test.htm What I did was take your code, and insert it into another table with 2 colums. I made the first COlum 760 pixals wide, which is what the actually 800x600 size is, and I made the other colum white at 100% so it will streach the white across. Let nme know =) |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: wolvies-ga on 20 Sep 2003 09:25 PDT |
Awwww :) It looks excellent to me I guess the key is to not have global values but use percentages etc. I didn't check the code but I reckon that if you say a part of the page should be so-and-so value, you are really using an image you have in your head and that image can always be percentaged. All my sites have percentage values. This means that on a narrower screen a long paragraph of text may be twice as many lines deep, but it still looks fine. You are really only constrained by the physical size of the images you use, and I notice you have a single one centred, so I think percentage values are the way to go wolvies, lol |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: chris_c-ga on 27 Sep 2003 00:00 PDT |
I would suggest that your initial approach to having a "funny looking homepage" is itself faulty. Optimizing based upon screen resolution is not the best approach when it comes to web design. What you ideally want is for a page to appear the same (or as close to the same) on all computers regardless of browser choice, screen resolution, operating system, etc. Browsers and operating systems make that more difficult because they let the users override the intended characteristics for a page. This has long been a fight between the designer and the designee over HTML protocol. Afterall, wouldn't it be great if you could just program your website to be viewed in 800 X 600 pixels so that no matter what computer it was view on it would always look the same? Unfortunately users have resolution preferences, operating systems have display preferences, monitors have color preferences, browsers have interpretation preferences, etc. etc. etc. Sorry to say but as a designer the odds are stacked against you. The solution that you're probably looking for comes in the form of pages based upon "liquidity". To accomplish this I would suggest you look into using percents instead of pixel dimensions to define your tables. For example <table width = "90%"> will scroll the table across 90% of the browser regardless of resolution and browser maximization/minimization. In terms of images, the resolution is based upon the size of the pixel so you're out of luck. If you're that serious about it, then you can use "environment variables" and a server side scripting language such as php to detect and deliver dynamic content to the user. That is, if the user is browsing using 1024x728 resolution you'll deliver them a different image. After all of that, i'll return back to the point that "I would suggest that your initial approach to having a "funny looking homepage" is itself faulty." My dad predominantly uses a laptop with his resolution set much higher than mine. His icons and text are so freaking tiny that I wonder if our roles are reversed and I should be getting my eyes checked for bifocals. The point is that he wants them to be that size and chances are if I forced him to view the icons in a larger/smaller format he wouldn't like it. Users set their preferences for a reason, or all computers would only come in 1 resolution. Regards, Chris |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: jude1-ga on 27 Sep 2003 08:21 PDT |
Chris, Thanks for the comments. I had tried the percentage-based page design before, but with mixed results. Maybe I'll give it another go. -Jude |
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Re: My website homepage looks funny
From: chris_c-ga on 27 Sep 2003 16:39 PDT |
np (: You can also mix and match percentages and pixels within nested tables for positioning. In terms of resolution however I think you are probably stuck if you're purely using HTML. You would need to move towards a server side scripting language that delivers content based upon interaction with the visitor. |
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