Very basic beginner question

analogue4 · 02-21-2006, 05:55 AM

Hi

Ive just started using Dreamweaver 8 by teaching myself.

Somethingthat is confusing me is to do with ensuring what I have on my design eg font colours, styles etc will show on another computer. Is there some kind of vaildation I can do to ensure this?

Lastly this one is bugging me, my graphics card isnt great, so the only resolution I can have (cant remember the number now) show wed pages zoomed fairly close in. I was designing a site and it looked spot on, when I uploaded it to the net. But soon as I looked at the website with another computer with a standard graphics resolution, the site didnt fit to one screen and was a bit skewiff. Is there away to componsate for my graphics card? Is it something to do with setting margins, if so im not sure what the width and height would be.

Thanks in advance - I appreciate these are really basic questions!

Ricoool · 02-21-2006, 09:55 AM

It will be a lot easyer to help if you post links the the pages in question

analogue4 · 02-21-2006, 12:09 PM

Are there not global options that can be selected to auto fit what you have done, regardless of peoples setups?

jwalsh · 02-21-2006, 12:47 PM

Look into learning CSS. That's the standard way of defining styles across the web.

Tomassi · 02-22-2006, 01:41 AM

You can choose for a fixed width of 750 px, thats sort of the standard nowadays, because the smallest resolution around is 800/600.
Or you can go with percentages ofcourse. But that sort op depends on your website content and design.

**LazyJim** · 02-28-2006, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by analogue4

Are there not global options that can be selected to auto fit what you have done, regardless of peoples setups?

I wish!

Percentage widths are OK, but don't offer enough flexibility so can cause trouble at wide or narrow screens.
CSS has min-width and max-width properties that should be set when you want them because some browsers DO support them.

Try using relative font sizes - (%, em, ex units) which should make use of individual users' browser and operating system default font-sizes.

Widths can also be set in those same units (em, ex) which, as they are based on the text-size, can make the width bigger ifthe user has a bigger default font-size - so basically if they have a large monitor, they might have a large default font-size and so you widths would increase to a better fit.

Of couse not everyone realises they have the option to change their "default font-sizes" or don't bother.