Web Page Design in Hobart by TasWIZ

Web Page resizing to fit the size of whatever screen/monitor viewed in has long been the thing of fantasy to all serious web page designers. Wouldn?t it be nice if we could just poke in a little bit of computer code at the beginning of our web page html and know that whoever was looking over our website would not have to be subjected to screen scrolling. Well we are not quite there yet, but i don?t think it will be very long before that is a problem of the past. We already have webpage zooming in the latest versions of some of our web browsers.

However there are some things you can do if you want to play with the technologies currently being used by cleaver web designers. Using tables to centre your information and set the tables to centre position works well enough however it isn?t very to make changes to that style of webpage. It is better to use the style command in your web header to control the behaviour of the contents of your webpage. Combine that with the use of layers instead of tables and you have a more flexible system that can word wrap and adjust to the size of the screen. For example you might see code written something like this…

Web Page Design Hobart – Code by TasWIZ

This will shove a layer to a set location based upon the percentage of a page size. Playing with this kind of layout can enable you to locate layers to fit exactly where you want them within your chosen wireframe layout. Of course the problem is that fonts and pictures will appear either really big or really small if you change the screen resolution so even if you do move their location you will find overlapping problems or need to by very strong reading glasses. To overcome this problem we used to have more than one home page and then included some java script into a refresh page that identifies screen size. For example similar to this…

Web Page Design Hobart – Code by TasWIZ

This would have redirected you to a page that is screen size appropriate however with a little bit of work and clever coding this same script could be rewritten to choose which style sheet to use depending on the current resolution.
So if you do this you will have a single home page that moves layers to set locations and text in the layers that change to the right size. All you have to do is figure out how you will overcome the graphics on your pages, such as using css and you will have created an expandable webpage. So there you go, get to work!!!

Hope this has inspired some of you egg heads into doing something nifty. If you have any success I would love to see it so email me on mail@taswiz.com

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