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From: Barry Carlson <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Why do pages look different??
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:19:01 +1200
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Jane

I sounds to me as if your Aunt is probably using a computer with a screen
resolution of 640. If that is the case and as the pics are of a fixed
dimension, it is quite likely that the page will not render as you intended.
My advice is that if the page looks as you expect in 1024 and 800px
resolution browsers, then leave well alone.

Some would say that your coding must be compatible with all older browsers
and smaller screen resolutions, but progress needs to be accepted otherwise
you would still be hammering the code in to stone.

Just put a statement on your page that it is best viewed in whatever
resolution you designed it for.

Having said all of the above..

I have just now opened your pages up in an editor capable rendering them in
all resolutions, and find that 640 is a mess, and 800 is not the best. For
everything to render the OK in 800 your code will need to place everything
as a percentage of the screen width. As you are basically displaying pics,
the combined width of all pics you wish to display side by side should not
exceed 750px, and as you want your pic descriptions to be associated with
the right pic, it seems to me that the best way of achieving that is to
place everthing in tables.

Now that is another subject! Essentially, you will need to create a table
with as many rows as you need, and say with provision for three data cells
in each row. That way you can either display 3 pics in a row, 2 in a row
with a nbsp in the center cell, or just 1 pic in the center with a nbsp in
the outside cells. Your text will be placed and centered under the
appropriate pic in the same data cell.

Hope all that makes sense.

Barry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Combs" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: [FreeHelp] Why do pages look different??


>I don't understand!!! When I view my pages, particularly the photo pages,
>all photos are in order with the captions centered under the photos. When
>I saw the pages on my aunts computer today, the photos were not in order
>and the captions were everywhere on the page! What is the problem??
> Thanks for any help with this,
> Jane
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~combsschwarzfamily
>

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