resizing for a table

[jeaniesa]

Clare,

Are you using CSS to lay out your page instead of tables? Just wondering if you're using the layout aspects of CSS in addition to fonts/colors/styles and completely doing away with the tables? I know that's possible, but I didn't go that route b/c I was under the impression that only the newest browsers support the page layout features of CSS. I figured I'd layout my site with tables for now and switch over to the (very cool) CSS features when more browsers supported them.

Jeffrey,

I'm not sure where the discussion on screen resolution took place, but I did design my site for 800x600 and made my table width 760 to account for the scroll bar on the right. The height is a little more difficult to design for b/c people have so many differences in the toolbars/status bars they choose to display in their browser. For a family site I just did, I didn't make my photos larger than 450 pixels in height if I wanted them to fit completely on an 800x600 screen, but I have no particular resource data to back that up (just my experience viewing that site on my husband's 800x600 screen.)

Jeanie

[clare]

On of the fantastic things that I have learnt is that CSS allows you to have a background image in a table. This has helped me so much as my screen layout has lines that I want to show through the menu bar.

On a personal note I think most people are viewing web pages at 1024 by 768, so my main navigation is for this screen size - it anyone knows any different please post your responce to this....

I have made my text on the table so it expands to any screen size this will include any portfolio images I inculde. but I have set my line breaks so that they can be viewed comfortably on any screen size. One thing that I have found from my art / design background is that it is easier to read text if it dosen't extend too far, like magazines using 3-4 collums of text instead of one. The reason I mention this is I could have made my text expand to the viewers resolution but I decided to put breaks in the text to make it easier to read. This also means anyone who is still using 800-600 will not have to scroll across and down(does that make sence?)


Apart from that I am using CSS to set the text size and the font.
There are so many posibilities with CSS that are not available in HTML, WOW I like what I have learnt and want to learn more.....

Clare