screen resolution

[leonkush]

Hello,

A quick question - I have been looking at other sites today in different resolutions and see that sites like http://www.johnlewis.com and this forum for that matter appear the same in 800 x 600 or 1280 x 800 etc.

I have centred and set the main table width to 760 pixcels on my site so the pages expand or detract when viewed in different resolutions but still stay central.

I haven't seen an Actinc site yet that behaves like the John Lewis site which is incidently the most visited site in the UK.

Can this be done with Actinic or is it because John Lewis is written in ASP?

[Mike Hughes]

I'm not sure what you're really asking for.

If you want to make a site that uses all the available space then you need to create your tables using relative sizing widths (100%, 20%, etc) rather than a fixed number of pixels.

Plenty of sites do it.

Mike

[leonkush]

resolution

Cheers Mike, I know what you are saying I have built other sites that way, but it seems quite difficult taking Netvariables into account when designing with Actinic, do you have any example Actinic sites that have been designed like this because even Actinic.co.uk and Actinic.com are 760 accross and I haven't seen an Actinic site yet to be designed for all screen resolutions.

By the way I have only designed a couple of sites, I am normally a database programmer, so I may sound ignorant.


Cheers

[garyhay]

http://www.theperfectpad.co.uk/ based on one of the newer themes and http://e-commerce-aberdeen.com/if/acatalog/ although the graphic is too big on the home page

[Mike Hughes]

Most designs prevent some columns from contracting beyond a fixed width to preserve the look and feel of a site. An example of this, where one of the columns can expand to make the most of the space available but there's a limit to how small it can go is here: http://www.fidelitydj.co.uk/acatalog...tore_1_30.html

Mike

[leonkush]

resolution

Nice one guys - cheers

will give me something to mull over

Leonkush

[grimsacre]

It seems to me as though what olderscot is describing is exactly what happens with the John Lewis site. Have I got that right or is there something I'm missing?

[Mike Hughes]

I'd say you've got right. All I've been doing is putting it into words, explaining how it's done and giving an example of an actinic site that does exactly this.

Mike