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Question re: Website Design & Resizing Site to Fit Browser Window?
Subject:Question re: Website Design & Resizing Site to Fit Browser Window? From:sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:28:21 -0600
Hi:
I've got a contract to build a small website for my local town's Chamber
of Commerce. The budget is pretty small as well. I used a pre-fab template
that came with my Dreamweaver 4/Fireworks 4 package. I then customized the
template for use for my client's site. The site design is
rectangular-basically just the size to accommodate one screen full of info
at a time eliminating the necessity of scrolling-in keeping with good web
design standards.
The template is basically designed for 800x600 to accommodate 15 inch
monitors. It works well and looks great at this size but it isn't (in it's
present state)scaleable. In other words, it doesn't expand to fill the
window of the monitor it's being viewed on. I understand that if it's set
in pixels it will retain the original size regardless of size of monitor.
It's also my understanding that if set as a per centage it will
scale/expand to monitor size. Originally, I was told to "just design the
site" as I wished and "go for it". Now clients are "concerned" that it
doesn't scale. Is there an easy quick solution to make it scale/expand?
I'm concerned about scale-ability & the graphic headers and tool bars.
They are currently in a Fireworks table and significant expansion could
easily distort these images in a big time kind of way. I think I'd need to
insert spacer images to accommodate any significant expansion???
Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm using Dreamweaver 4 as development tool
and..alas...I don't program Java or Javascript.I've already donated quite
a bit of "free time" to this project and so am looking for an expedient
solution that will keep client happy and let me finish up fairly quickly.
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