Making Web Pages that Fit All Screen Resolution Sizes

Making your website eye-pleasing is important. If you take great care in choosing colors, layouts, and graphics, shouldn't you take care to make your site aesthetically pleasing to ALL its viewers? One way to do so is to make sure it fits all screen resolutions - 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024... (Remember, no one likes to side-scroll.)

This is definitely not as difficult as it may sound when using tables. I must acknowledge here that HTML tables are on the way out in favor of CSS; however, for the novice webmaster they work just fine.  When you build your site with tables, use percentages instead of pixels for their size! Percentages are flexible because they only take up a specified percent of the page size (which fluctuates with different screen resolutions), while pixels are absolute in size. For example, if you size a table at 500 pixels wide & 200 pixels high, it will always take up that amount of space, but if you size your table at 90%, it will take up just 90% of the page no matter which screen resolution your computer is set on.

Tip of the Day: Try viewing your pages in each of the screen resolution settings on your computer before uploading them onto the internet. If they all look fine to you, they'll look fine to other surfers, too!

Regards,
Danielle Dandridge
CEO/Website Solutions Specialist
Paradigm Shift Website Solutions, LLC
http://www.pswebsitesolutionsllc.com/