My site was designed a few years ago and seemed fine with a fair few compliments.
I have a new 17" screen now and I now see 2 plain white borders to the left and to the right of all the pages.
I normally do all my html work myself and would like to tweak it into shape without recourse to a program that will give me a top heavy structure.
Any advice? I am not sure if I am allowed to type in the URL here but I have filled it in in the "Homepage URL" box below

Now I don't see the URL anywhwere so here it is in an inoffensive form
wwwDOT_crocnarawDOT_coDOT_uk

For all your tables with a width of 780 change it to 100%. There are about 5 of them.

There are also two TD's at the top with a width of 195. Change them so there is no width. Otehrwise you will have problems with your tabs as the page is resized.

Michael J

thanks
it sounds like good advice.I had started to do that and it looked like it was falling apart so I panicked.
I will have another attempt.
Am I right to hope that after this small change it will fill any size of monotor/screen without any gaps.
I remember there was a s ite where you could test out your work online with different sized screens.It may not be too hard to track down.

No reason to be scared. Just save a copy first before you start making any edits. You should ALWAYS make edits to copies and then replace your live files.

It's not so much the size of your monitor as much as the "resolution" you are running at. So, you can test the changes yourself by increasing the resolution on your monitor.

Also, there were a couple of "issues" left with the above changes. The tabs would shrink and word-wrap when the window was sized down - you can fix this by using padding and the nowrap property. Also, the image on the right in the third row was floting in the center of it's div with white space on either side at large resolutions. You need to decide if you want it centerd or left/right-justified and then find something to use as a background color or image. I'm sure there's some other minor tweaking to do as well.

Michael J

Thats great!
I have 50 or 60 pages to do though.
Iam half way through and have a stiff back.
Anyway I have uploaded what I have done so far.I think the picture on the right has benefited from the move.

"I have 50 or 60 pages to do though."

You may want to look into incorporating style sheets into your page. There will be a bit of a learning curve, but you will gain so much flexibility. With a style sheet you have a single file that controls the layout properties for all of your pages. So, you only need to edit the one file and all your pages will change accordingly.

Also, there's no problem posting a link in your post - especially if it deals with the problem at hand.

Michael J

I do have a stlesheet (css file isn't it)But I feel uncomfortable with it even though I realise there is more to it than just efficiency.
I haven't ever really edited it seriously but I know you can just override it when you want to without worrying about it being in the background.
Actually I just looked up the folks who designed my site about 4 years ago.
They are www.coolwebdesigning.com in India and I can see their prices have gone up since.I paid them about $200 for over 30 pages as it was so expensive over here in Ireland.They still look very reasonable to me though

check out the web editor called Komposer (which is an updated version of nvu) ... the great thing with it is that it is free + it has a stylesheet editor that enables you to see straight away how the changes you make to your css file alter the web page the css applies to

http://kompozer.net/

serge

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thanks
that could be interesting.