Dreamweaver help

Dragon9206 · 02-11-2007, 08:22 PM

Hello. I am fairly new to web design, so I need some help. I am making a site in dreamweaver 8. The way I was taught by my professor, was to set everything up in illustrator, and slice it up, and then open it in dreamweaver, and go from there. (I'm thinking that isnt the best route to go?) I set my pages up as 600 x 800. But I notice when I preview it in Internet explorer, if I dont have all my toolbars turned on, you can see where my page ends. My navigation is in a color bar, that ends at the bottom of the page. How do I make my pages show up at 800 by 600 so that the user wont see past the edges of the pagesI set up? does my site have to resize the users browser window? What should I do? Somebody help me, please. Thanks!

IslaScotts · 02-11-2007, 09:50 PM

You could go for a liquid page

Taltos · 02-12-2007, 12:41 PM

The answer to your question depends a lot on the design of your page. If you have a single color that is at the outer edge of your page all the way around, then just add a background color that matches that to the <body> tag. If you design does not have a single color all the way around, you will have a problem. Lots of people are not running in 800 x 600 resolution these days. They are running higher resolutions and that will leave lots of space around your design. That is one of the bigger challenges in designing pages today, accomodating different screen resolutions for your design.

Can you attach a screen shot so we know what we are looking at for the design? Or post a URL if you have it up somewhere we can see?

IslaScotts · 02-12-2007, 12:46 PM

Thanks taltos.. I guess I didn't read it right. i thought he was talking about how it extended over.. maybe I should just take a nap.

Taltos · 02-12-2007, 12:47 PM

I only recognize it because I remember trying to do somthing similar a long time ago

@ myself