Resizing for clients resolution...

[Kamikazee89]

Hello, I have googled more than a person should have to to on this question and I have come to the conclusion that either it's not possible to do what I am asking or my layout won't work for it. Now the actual question.

I want my page to be accessible for the majority of IE, FF, and Safari users but the problem is that I want it to be full screen regardless of the resolution (aka no scroll bar on the bottom for left to right). I will note that the site was made for 1024x768 but I have a better 1280x1024 version I can use and would like to ultimately use. Is it possible to make my layout auto-resize in this manner or is my initial design flawed?

I created it with Photoshop, sliced and exported with Imageready and I am editing in Dreamweaver.

Test page for the site: http://lynndudenbostel.com/TEST/indextest.htm


Thanks!!!!!

[tracknut]

I realize this isn't answering the question, but that would be a very bizarre looking site. Your images would be scaled up and down by the browser, changing their aspect ratio as well, and your text would be scaled up and down too... I just don't think it makes sense. There's probably a reason there aren't web sites that do this, one ironically being accessability. The only way I can imagine it working is to make the whole site an image, and just scale it to 100% in both directions - and I certainly don't recommend that!

I'd suggest just picking a minimum acceptable size, like it is now, and then just doing a centered site that will be the same size on all browsers. Then let the browser alter font sizes and scrolling if necessary.

Dave

[felgall]

You should set up your page to use percentages for widths as much as possible. Of course that isn't possible for images that can't be set as repeating backgrounds so for those parts of the page you'll need to use fixed widths and heights that match the sizes of the images.

If your page layout doesn't contain sections that can expand/contract for different viewport sizes then you have designed your page the wrong way from the start.

[Kamikazee89]

So from reading the replies I suppose it's either going to have to be a centered page or a re-design to make it more liquid. Is that about right? I think I can make it a more liquid page but I'm not sure where to start exactly. Maybe push it to the left and edit the design to have solid colors around the edges so that it can blend with a background color a bit easier? Any ideas? Thanks again!