Website to auto fit

Hello guys

I ve just knocked together a Little Britain Website - I've put it together with the design to fit my 15 in monitor screen.

When I view my website on a much larger screen it looks awful.

Is there any commands I can include in my HTML so that the webpages autofit and the objects in my website become larger to become proportional in recpect to the size of the screen.

Thanks

Herrlip

You can't do this with standard HTML i'm afraid, but the basic point is that you probably wouldn't. Any images would be stretched and pixellation would occur (basically it would look bad!).

It's much better to either design parts of your layour to stretch or simply centre your layout and stay specific with the size.

herlip,

I am somewhat of a newbie but you can use relative sizing in XHTML (not sure about HTML) as opposed to h1 (for headers)and exact sizing. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are another way to accomplish this. If you use Dreamweaver (as I do) you can choose % for your tables which makes your web page relative to your browser window.

I am a newbie but I hope this helps.

Rebecca

Like Rebecca said you can use percentages for some things. Flash scales pretty smoothly, but then Flash has its own problems aside from you having to rebuild the site.

Screen size though is generally less of an issue than the screen resolution you design for. It 2 monitors are set to 800x600 it doesn't matter what size the screen is, a 800x600 size site will fill it up. Probably the bigger monitors you're looking at are also set for a higher rez.

One thing you might want to look into doing is creating a "Center" or "Left" Adjusted site. This will seperate your site from the background page and make it look good on any screen resolution. It's just one way of doing things. What I mean by that is have your website and then have a different color/image background so as to seperate your site from the "space".

800 x 600 would seem to be the 'goal' of most designers, although I have noticed more and more sites these days going for 1024 x 768.

To achieve optimal sizing, I would use (as suggested) percentages. Set a DIV tag around you content and then use CSS to define it's dimensions.

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