How can I make my web sites resolution match my visitors resolution.?

Question

When viewing my web site from other computers using higher screen resolutions my site appears much smaller. My site is designed at 840X420, the most common screen resolution on the net. However, it would be nice to display a full screen to all of my visitors no matter what resolution they may be using.

Answer 1

"840X420" is definately not a typical resolution for a computer screen.

Try 800x600, 1024x786, 1280x1024 etc. for screen resolutions.
Widescreen displays are becoming increasingly popular making for yet more resolutions.

A web browser isn't always used full screen and esp. not by people using really big screens (you cannot comfortably read a line that long and find the next line of text fast).

So you really should match to the viewport (the inside of the browser window) size of the user.

You can get those measurements using javascript.

But it's generally easier to look into using a "fluid" layout using e.g. CSS techniques. and let the browser do all the work.

Answer 2

the most common screen resolution is 800x600
The next common is 1024x768
but that is moot

you'd have to create a script that detects a persons' resolution setting
then load a CSS sheet ( the best way) that will control your layout/text size etc based on what the script returns

However, since people use various browsers, this can prove difficult as some browser will not let your site know what resolution they are set at

Answer 3

OK Check this out, I will tell you what has happened to me in my past experiences developing websites. Right now the basic website resolution is for a standard screen is 1024 x 768 so just keep that in mind, also remember to keep you tables aligned center, design wise it looks a lot better.
OK then the next thing is if you want to match what ever screen resolution that everyone out their has on their screen you pretty much need to put in your HTML code 100% this is how you write it out,

Answer 4

the following script will redirect visitors to the correct resolution version of your site.

http://dwight.clickthesky.com/snippets2/resolutionredirect.shtml

this means you have to have several versions of your site

Answer 5

try to put your site content in a