Hi guys, I have a page over at the following link that looks fine at 1024x768 but not at all fine at 800x600. Admittedly I don't know too much about HTML but a little bit... (I had this page coded for me). If you look at the following site at 800x600, you'll see that the paragraph that begins, "The truth is, most of us have been forced" is way OFF CENTER. I have played for hours trying to reposition the text box but to no avail.... Here's the page: http://instantfixpc.com/invalid-page-fault.php I am so grateful for any help you can offer! Thanks and regards, - Dave
Not many people use 800x600. I'd say you shouldn't worry about it. More importantly, your text leaks out of your content area even on 1024x768...
Thats a lie. 1% of the internet is still hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people. And more than 1% of people have low resolutions, same with people who use Opera, or have Javascript disabled - its only a small percentage, but its still a lot of people. Position with % and ems in CSS to make a fluid layout.
By "not many" I meant not many. Perhaps you don't know this, but when most of your visitors use high res and they see a wafer thin page made for 800x600 they aren't pleased. Of course, this kind of website (op), needs to be available at 800x600 I suppose.
Which is why you make the page fluid. I personally use 1280x1024. Many people use 800*600 - sight impaired people, people with old machines (which is a lot of "average" users), or people who got a machine without an OS, and had to do it themselves - and WinXP and Vista use 800*600 res' as default. OP - your problem is you are using position:absolute on everything, which is a big NO NO. You should only have around 6 divs on that page, and it is fairly easy to make that fluid, since its such a simple design. Chuck it out and start from scratch withclean, semantic markup.
Thanks folks for the helpful responses...you're right, the text certainly is leaking out at 1024x768 as well....which is definitely real bad! Looks great at 1440x900 but that's besides the point. - Dave
lol not many people use 800x600 that made me laugh thats the standard for any web designer to go by and has been for a few years now. In your html code look on a 800x600 screen and find when the text starts to leak place in a <br>tag in these spots and it should clear it up. Its some bad programing on your coders part though not sure how it is coded or could help more