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[lisa33]

Hello, I would like to know if there is a program that automatically changes my websites image, making it bigger or smaller according to the size of the viewers monitor. I hear there may be such a program called the sniffer, or something like that, that may possibly change the resolution of my website to fit bigger and smaller monitors better. Please let me know of any details you may know of, thank you so much, Lisa.

[ryanbutler]

I'm not aware of such programs.

[The_Magus]

Dear Ryanbutler:

What is the purpose of your response to the question asked?

If you think it is important that everyone tells the member posting the question that they don't know we would end up with a pretty boring forum. If you can't contribute, why bother posting anything as 99% of the viewers also don't know the answer but they don't bother telling everyone else this fact.

Is there an ulterior motive or benefit of some sort that I'm not seeing????

Maybe just a way of getting links to your own site???

Cheers

Jack
The Magus

[wamboid]

Dear Ryanbutler:

What is the purpose of your response to the question asked?

If you think it is important that everyone tells the member posting the question that they don't know we would end up with a pretty boring forum. If you can't contribute, why bother posting anything as 99% of the viewers also don't know the answer but they don't bother telling everyone else this fact.

Is there an ulterior motive or benefit of some sort that I'm not seeing????

Maybe just a way of getting links to your own site???

Cheers

Jack
The Magus

I think you read way too much into that. He gave the correct answer - there is no program to do that. The closest thing would be to that would be to "sniff" what resolution is being used and then direct to different html. Of course, even knowing what resolution and monitor size a person has doesn't tell you how large they have their browser window set for, so really, there is no way to tell.

[The_Magus]

Dear Wamboid:

I withdraw my comments and apologize if my post was over the top.

However I disagree that he gave the correct answer - his response was "not that I am aware of" which is different from your answer that there is no such program. Nit picking maybe but..........

Cheers

Jack

[Nanscombe]

Hi Lisa33,

You may like to have a look at the thread http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132066&highlight=Javascript+resolution

It is about using Javascript to sense the window size and redirecting the User to different pages depending on the result.

It may hold some useful clues.

You may be able to couple some of this with CSS to resize the images on your pages.

Regards
Nigel

[ray326]

There are a couple of ways to do this with some precision* but by far the best thing to do would be to design your site so that image size doesn't matter. It's hard to say more without seeing the existing design.

*Several "make your own graphics online" web sites use The GIMP to build the final images because it has a programmatic interface (API) as well as the interactive user interface. I believe another library called ImageMagic can be used in a similar way but I've never played with that one.