Website view on different Screen Resolution ???
 

My present website: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darsh25/

can be seen perfectly well on the screen resolution of 1024 x 768 but after reducing my screen's resolution to 800 x 600, I couldn't see it equally well. There are many other websites over the Internet that I checked using both screen's resolution & that works perfectly well in higher & lower resolution.

I wonder if there's a way I can make bit of changes to my CSS code so it can be seen equally well in low resolution screen.

My present CSS code:

/* CSS Document */



body 

{

        background-image:url(background.jpg);

        background-attachment:fixed;

}



/* ........................................ Banner ........................................ */



#banner

{

        width:100%;

        height:100px;

        text-align:center;

}





/* ......................................... Top Menu .................................... */



#topMenu

{

        background-color:transparent;

        cursor:default;

        text-align:center;

        width:980px;

        float:right;

}



#topMenu ul

{

        list-style: none;

        float:right;

        position:relative;

        margin-left: 130px;

        width:850px;

}



#topMenu ul li 

{

        background-color:purple;

        display: inline;

        border-width:medium;

        border-style:outset;

        width:203px;

        float:left;

        position: relative;

        font-size:large;

}



#topMenu li:hover

{

        border-width:medium;

        border-style:inset;

}





#topMenu a

{

        display:block;

        text-decoration:none; 

        font-size:larger;

        color:yellow; 

}



#topMenu a:hover

{

        background-color:black;

        color:white;

        text-transform:uppercase;

}



/* ....................................... Left Menu .......................................... */



#leftMenu

{

        background-color:transparent;

        cursor:default;

        text-align:center;

        width:100px;

        float:left;

}



#leftMenu ul

{

        text-align:center;

        list-style:none;

        margin:0px;

        position:relative;

        padding:0px;

        width:120px;

        border:thin solid red;

        border-bottom:0px;

}



#leftMenu ul li

{

        display: block;

        background-color:yellow;

        width:120px;

        border-bottom:thin solid red;

        color:blue;

        position: relative;

        font-size:large;

        line-height:50px; 

}



#leftMenu ul li:hover

{

        color:black;

        background-color:yellow;

        text-transform:uppercase;

}



#leftMenu ul li ul 

{

        position:absolute;

        display: none;

        text-transform:none;

        left:120px;

        width:123px;

        top:0px;

}



#leftMenu ul li ul a

{

        display:block;

        position:relative;

        text-decoration:none; 

        background-color:white;

        line-height:20px; 

        font-size:large;

        width:123px;

        color:green;

        text-transform:none;

}



#leftMenu ul li ul a:hover

{

        color:#00FFFF;

        background-color:black;

}



#leftMenu ul li ul {display:none;}

#leftMenu ul li:hover ul {display:block;}





/* This Code is for Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser 

to it shows the effect of "li:hover" */



body { behavior: url(csshover.htc); }



/* ................................... Content ................................................ */



#content

{

        background-color:white;

        width:850px; 

        border:1px solid green;

        float:right;

        border-bottom:none;

}



#content h2

{

        font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;

        text-align:justify;

        margin:30px;

        color:#990033;

        text-decoration:underline;

        clear:both;

}



#content h3

{

        font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

        text-align:justify;

        font-size:large;

        margin:30px;

        color:blue;

        text-decoration:none;

        clear:both;

}



#content h4

{

        font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;

        text-align:justify;

        font-size:large;

        color:red;

        margin:30px;

        text-decoration:none;

        clear:both;

}



#content h5

{

        font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;

        text-align:justify;

        font-size:large;

        color:fuchsia;

        margin:30px;

        text-decoration:none;

        clear:both;

}



#content h6

{

        font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;

        text-align:justify;

        font-size:medium;

        color:black;

        margin:30px;

        text-decoration:underline;

}



#content p

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        margin:20px 30px;

        color:black;

}



#content p.first-letter:first-letter

{

        color:red;

        margin-left:20px;

        font-size:xx-large;

}



#content ul

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        margin:20px 30px;

        list-style-image:url(file:///C|/Darsh/list_icon.gif);

}



#content ul li

{

        margin:20px;

        clear:both;

}



#content ol

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        margin:20px 30px;

        list-style-type:decimal;

}



#content ol li

{

        margin:20px;

}



#content img.left

{

        float:left;

        padding:10px;

}



#content img.right

{

        float:right;

        padding:10px;

}



#content ul li a

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        text-decoration:none;

}



#content ul li a:hover

{

        color:red;

        background-color:yellow;

        font-weight:bold;

}



#content ul a:active

{

        color:blue;

        font-weight:bold;

}



#content ul a:visited

{

        color:grey;

}



/* ................................... Other Class ......................................... */



.boldText

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        font-weight:bold;

}



.italicText

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        font-style:italic;

}



.underlineText

{

        font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

        text-align:justify;

        color:black;

        text-decoration:underline;

}





/* ................................... Table ......................................... */



.table

{

        background-color:black;

        border-style:outset;

        border-width:thick;

        border-spacing:20px;

        margin:30px 30px;

        font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

        text-align:center;

}



.table:hover

{

        border-style:inset;

        border-width:thick;

}



.tr

{

        border:1px solid red;

}



.th

{

        border:1px solid yellow;

        color:fuchsia;

}



.td

{

        border:1px solid red;

        font-size:medium;

        color:yellow;

}



/* ................................... Bottom Menu ......................................... */



#centerTop

{

        text-align:center;

        float:none;

}



#centerTop img

{

        border:0px;

}



#bottomMenu

{

        border:1px solid red;

        float:left;

        background-color:black;

        color:#FFFFFF;

        text-align:center;

        font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;

        font-style:italic;

        font-size:large;

        width:100%; 

        height:5%; 

        margin:0px;

}



#validator

{

        text-align:center;

        float:none;

}



#validator img

{

        border:0px;

}

Re: Website view on different Screen Resolution ???
 

In short you'll find that most of the professional websites design their content to be viewed in the lowest resolution - 800 x 600 pixels.

When people are using a slightly higher resolutions they just center it, to give the illusion of looking perfect.

http://www.adobe.com/
http://www.winamp.com/ looks okey dokey in watever resolution.

The other popular alternative is to have a banner which dynamically expands and contracts depending on the resolution of the user. It sounds more difficult than it actually is :)

http://www.symantec.com/index.htm

However, some sites such as Daniweb (he he) consider 1024 x768 resolution to be the de facto resolution and disregard all those viewing below that range! Which is a fair point, most people use monitors with this settings.

Choose, whichever options suit you best.


P.S I've had a look at some of your websites - in the javascript forums.. And I'm finding it hard to resist nominating them for the websites that suck prize. :cheesy:

Question:
Are you even using a web design program (frontpage/dreamweaver)?

Re: Website view on different Screen Resolution ???
 

Thanks for your time & help.

My website is viewable perfectly well on 1024 and 800 resolution since I've changed the "px" to "%" value now.

I'm bit at sea as what do you mean by "some" of my websites, since I don't have many websites as this is the only one that I've created lately.

Although, I'm doing my work in Dreamweaver window but am NOT using the software itself, since all my codes are hand-coded.

Re: Website view on different Screen Resolution ???
 

>I'm bit at sea as what do you mean by "some" of my websites, since I don't have many websites as this is the only one that I've created lately.

Don't forget this atrocity...: http://uk.geocities.com/darsh2525/

:cheesy: as well as the one you posted in this thread :cheesy:

>Although, I'm doing my work in Dreamweaver window but am NOT using the software itself, since all my codes are hand-coded.

I admit the code, looks well organised, but when it comes to web-design me thinks the purdiness of the interface should take priority.

At the moment it looks, well amateurish. Hope you don't mind the crit. Dreamweaver's a good piece of kit. Use it!

Re: Website view on different Screen Resolution ???
 

Yes, you're right. Basically it wasn't my own website, it was a project given to me by a pair of business partner who needed extra hand. I simply made this website in just over 1 day. I simply was working on layout (since they needed someone for couple of days to kick them off with the basic layout) & then they both continued from there onwards.

Although, I've used Dreamweaver in the past (though, not as much as I've done the hand-coding, I must admit), I'm trying to make myself comfortable with hand-coding to get a thorough understanding of CSS.

Beside, employers often prefer someone able to make website using "hand-coding" so that's another reason, as why I'm delving more into hand-coding.

Currently, I'm looking into MySQL & PHP, since that's always asked by the employers before even considering my job application.