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Posted by: Graeme Sep 18 2008, 05:05 AM

I am redesigning our school website around a template containing a centred table 800px wide. This appears fine on the laptop I am using for the design but when viewed on the school's wide screen monitors set to a higher resolution the content of the table is stretched horizontally. Is there any way around this problem

Thanks

Posted by: Frederiek Sep 18 2008, 07:54 AM

Can you post the url ?

Posted by: Graeme Sep 18 2008, 10:30 AM

QUOTE(Frederiek @ Sep 18 2008, 01:54 PM)

Can you post the url ?

Only a test version of the homepage is available on line at

http://www.woodham.org.uk/web_test/index.html

Cheers

Posted by: Darin McGrew Sep 18 2008, 10:54 AM

In what way is the content stretched horizontally?

My experience with projectors is that they have lower resolution than the computer displays I'm used to. That causes fixed-width layouts to take up a larger portion of the display area, or to scroll if they're too wide.

The solution is to use a fluid layout, rather than a fixed-width layout. This also helps avoid having the right side of the page cut off when you print the page.