How can i make my website fit everybody screen like the others?
May 30th, 2010 Posted in Blog Resource
Hello i am having a hard time making my website were it will fit everybody screen like people with a wide screen monitor and it would center it self i made my website 800 by 600 pixels and i made it in Adobe Fireworks Cs4. Please reply if you can tell me how to do this or fix it were it will fit on everybody screen.
May 30th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Good question, and the subject of much turmoil in the web design industry these days.
The problem is that PC monitors used to be close to 4×3 (width vs height) like televisions of yore. So a resolution of 1024 x 768 would fit nicely. Now, monitors are 16×9 to simulate HD wide screen TV sets.
I guess the not-too-smart people who design the current monitors think people are going to watch TV on them all day. Not me!
So, what do you shoot for?
First, try to have your website visitor avoid scrolling too much. These days, that means that your pages should be wider than tall. Keep in mind that browser toolbars can eat up almost of 1/4 of the limited vertical space that browsers have these days, because everybody wants you to install their toolbar!
Second, 800 x 600 is history these days. Almost nobody uses it. My web logs tell me the most popular resolution is 1280 x 1024 followed at some distance by 1024 x 768. Shoot for the most popular resolution.
Third, break up your text so it uses columns- nobody is going to read across a very wide page to read a sentence.
Hope these tips are helpful. There’s a couple of additional tips on the link below: