kelvin

Hope someone can help... (the sooner the better - I was hoping to get this finished today! )

I've designed a site using dreamweaver - using layers to place objects as opposed to tables/cells. The site has been designed so that everything is visible when viewing on a maximised display at 1024 x 768... (expect some of you can guess the next bit )

Is there any way that I can reconfigure the site within dreamweaver, so that the site resizes according to different browser sizes/resolutions? For example, i'd like it so that someone browsing on an 800 x 600 display can see the full site without having to scroll across as is currently the case.

Am I going to have to start from scratch? The big bonus of using layers for me, was the fact that I could overlap certain images, and elements - wish i'd stuck to tables now

Help!

Many thanks in advance,

K.

lightning101

Did you use proper CSS styles ? If so why not get it to change style on the basis of it not fitting the screen area.

kelvin

I'm fairly new to web design so i'm not too sure what you mean - I used CSS styles to define elements of the site (various text elements in particular) - there's also a style attributed to "body" (which contains the background colour etc.) - is that the one you mean?

If so, what value do I need to alter?

Sorry for sounding thick - I guess we all start somewhere SHould have said that I needed a simpleton answer!

K.

kelvin

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Carl Davey

iTrader: (3)

I normally use tables to build liquid sites and work in percentages to achieve a decent look on a variety of screen resolutions. Can't remember if layer dimensions can be in percentages.

As a rule of thumb work to 800x600, check it looks ok in the biggest resolution your PC can manage and adjust if necessary.

And not forgetting cross browser compatability...