Ray,

No argument about your comments at all, I was simply adding my own two
cents' worth...

As I'm the webmaster, let me share the logic intended for the First Rays
site:

Due to tracking done by my web host, I know that more than 97% of the
visitors to the site use a resolution of 800 x 600 or higher, so I consider
that to be the least common denominator, and as much as possible - when
tabular data seemed appropriate - tried to stick to that. In the cases of
the photos, for which I deemed the readjustment of the material to be
insignificant, I didn't worry about it too much.

I try to be consistent, but as I am a one-man show for a business that's
grown a lot faster than I expected, sometimes I'm just to busy, and I've
just got to not let it worry me.

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Ray Barkalow First Rays Orchids
http://www.firstrays.com
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"RayC" wrote in message
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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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Ray Barkalow First Rays Orchids
http://www.firstrays.com
Secure Online Ordering & Lots of Free Info!

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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