Different sized screens

by regarsfo

Posted: 13 years ago 5 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hi

I have a web page that looks perfect on a XVGA (1024x768) screen. Everything fits on the screen. The problem is that when viewing these pages on a smaller screen (SVGA/VGA) I must scroll down to see the end part of the pages. I don't want to have to scroll down to see.

I've heard that it is possible for the pages to know on what size screen they are viewed on. They adjust to the size automaitcally or something like that. Is this possible?

Or do I just adjust the web page's size to a SVGA screen (800x600) size?

Thanks for the help!!

#screens #sized

rakkerus

13 years ago

You can use Google analytics to get some informations about visitor's browser, OS, screen resolutions, java support, etc.
I think you should keep your fits in 1024x768, browser FireFox and OS Windows

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mywebwork

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rakkerus

You can use Google analytics to get some informations about visitor's browser, OS, screen resolutions, java support, etc.

That's a pretty unconventional way of doing it, most of us would use JavaScript:

Detecting user's screen size
JavaScript: Screen Resolution Detection

A method of changing your sites appearance to match screen size using JQuery is as follows:

How to detect screen size and apply a CSS style | jQuery | ilovecolors

Hope this helps.

Bill

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Simon Phillips 13 years ago

Bills method will work perfectly - It's worth noting though that 1024x768 is pretty much the bottom rung of computer based screen resolutions these days. Unless you are targetting a specific niche market that use lo-res screens I wouldn't worry too much about catering for 800x600. (At the very least, make sure that you important bits such as auto-responder forms are above the fold for an 800x600 screen).
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HarrySy

13 years ago

Originally Posted by mywebwork

This reply is best. There's a way to adjust the browser screen automatically depending on the screen size.

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murrad 13 years ago

Try browsershots.org - you can find how they are showing up on various web browsers and you can fix them.
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