another Q, display width opinion

[Shawn Modersohn]

Is it worth sweating to make sure a 640 display fits perfect? I have looked
around and it seems most content heavy sites set table width at about
710-720. I am hoping a 640 display is so rare by now that you should just
go ahead and plan for a fluid 800 and 1024.

 

[Whitecrest]

Is it worth sweating to make sure a 640 display fits perfect? I have looked
around and it seems most content heavy sites set table width at about
710-720. I am hoping a 640 display is so rare by now that you should just
go ahead and plan for a fluid 800 and 1024.

Depends if you care if people access your site from a non computer based
browser (Palm pilot, Phone etc..) If you don't care, then there is
probably little need to worry about 640 (though there may still be a
few)

Check this out:

http://glish.com/css/

There are some other options for your layout.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named Shawn Modersohn:

Is it worth sweating to make sure a 640 display fits perfect? I
have looked around and it seems most content heavy sites set table
width at about 710-720. I am hoping a 640 display is so rare by
now that you should just go ahead and plan for a fluid 800 and
1024.

The best way is to not even think about monitor size. People do surf
with their windows not maximized.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

Make your site float at any browser size. This one of mine works just
fine down to under 500px.
http://www.freezeblock.com/

Heh, what is a "fluid 800?"

 

[Shawn Modersohn]

Depends if you care if people access your site from a non computer based
browser (Palm pilot, Phone etc..) If you don't care, then there is
probably little need to worry about 640 (though there may still be a
few)

Check this out:

http://glish.com/css/

There are some other options for your layout.

Thanks for the info. I am glad that being new to html, I wasn't scared to
jump right into .css as well. I have found it invaluable for my first site.
I plan on treading back into the more familiar databases and give this site
e-commerce capability in the future. Trying to position and figure out a
fairly complex .css menu has turned me off to using .css to layout the page.
I am sure once you get it, its just as effective. Except, wouldn't tables
be best for what amounts to tabular data, Item Price Item Price so on and so
forth.