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Old 25-02-2003, 07:53 PM
RayC
 
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"Ray @ First Rays Orchids" wrote:

One problem with setting the width to a percentage of the screen, rather
than a fixed pixel width is that the formatting - or at least the wrapping -
changes dependent on the viewer's monitor. By setting the width to a pixel
size based upon the least common denominator, you know it will be the same
for all.

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While that is indeed true, it can be like reading a paper through a telescope if
the table is bigger than your monitor resolution. You have to constantly slide
back and forth just to read the page. I that case the formatting, no matter how
perfect it was laid out, is lost on the reader.

On your own site, for instance, when viewed with a 640x480 resolution, the home
page is just a little large and the infamous slider (scroll bar) appears at the
bottom of the page. On 800x600 it looks perfect and on 1024x768 or bigger, it
just looks like a stripe of information down the center of the page. Plus, it
looks like your webmaster designed for 800x600 for the home page and then used
the 100% table setting for the orchid pictures. See, even your own webmaster
can't figure out what is best!

This was a big time discussion by the HTML Writers Guild some 8 years ago and
most agreed that percentages made more sense in whole page tables.

Just my $.02
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