I'm new to the whole web design thing so bear with me... I'm trying to learn to use Dreamweaver to design sites and i'm having this problem with my pages being excessively wide. They look fine on my computer and fill the whole page but when other people try to look at them, they have to scroll across a lot. I think its because of the resolution on my computer being very high and others have smaller screens, lower res and whatnot. Someone suggested making the pages width 100% but that doesn't seem to do anything if the content layout cell is really wide. Is there a standard width that most people keep their content within so they don't have this problem? Thanks
When you say "layout cell", does that mean a table? Many times people just set divs in order and they usually automatically fill to 100% width (of the browser window, regardless of screen resolution). Setting other things to percents (percent usually being of the size of the browser window) also gives you flexibility. I'll just tell you now that dreambeaver has a bad reputation here. It's (generally) easy to use but it puts out machine-made code. Ever see a robot dance? It's never as good as when a human does it. On top of that, if you're learning to write web pages, dreambeaver doesn't really tell you how to write a great page (though it can get you familiar with the basic tags etc if you look in Code View). But, if you have the page in question on a server somewhere, we can probably show you how to make it more flexible. If your friends are getting scroll bars, you must have something somewhere (maybe the body, wrapper, header?) set to a large number of pixels. I have an example of a fluid page if you want to see it. It's under construction but it flows, man : )
Well I'm only vaguely familiar with how to code. I know the basic terms to change colors and fonts and sizes etc. I can figure out how to make adjustments in the code once it's there, but i wouldn't know where to start writing it myself. That's why i thought a program like Dreamweaver would help. It could generate the code for me and i could just modify it in the code view if i wanted. But it's not really that simple it seems. Is there better software than DW out there i can use to start? What the best way to learn to code?