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Sizing my site correctly in a smaler window

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:55 pm
by tpra21
I have a website, http://www.wcorentals.com. It looks fine, and maintaines its structure and design from 600X800 to 1600X1200 resolution. But when the browser window is minimized small enough, the site loses its structure, and basically breaks down into coas.

Does anyone have any general ideas of what my problem is? My site uses PHP, CSS, and HTML.

Thanks, Adam

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:41 pm
by Burrito
the only thing i can see that doesn't "work" well with minimized windows are the div on the left and the image at the top. The div is probably absolutely positioned and sized and therefore would be a nightmare to try to resize on current window size and frankly, I don't see it being worth the effort to try to make it so.

the background image at the top is just that, a background image and therefore won't stretch or shrink to fit the screen size.

bottom line:

as long as it fits at 800x600, you're covering all that you "should" have to cover.

if people want to have the full "experience" of your site, they should expand their window so that it fits correctly, or maximize it in the case of 800x600.

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:19 pm
by nielsene
Hmm I'ld look into used a fixed (probably in ems) dimension for the left div and then a matching fixed margin on the main content. (Like the Liquid Layout article at ALA). That way the layout survies both changess of browser size and font size.

The other thing that seems to break was the the "sign-up" bar along with "more ..." The above "fix" coupled with the removal of the min-width should fix that as well.