Re: Q: Site building with CS3

wxyz321@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 20, 5:11 am, "\(not quite so\) Fat Sam"
<samandja...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rudy, if you post the HTML code from one of your pages, I'll be able
to tell you which tag needs to be altered in order to fix the
problem.

I'll give it a try...I'm not sure if this is what you want, but after
I "saved for web & devices" and then opened the page in my browser, I
went to "page source" and found this:

<html>
<head>
<title>2007 page 2 layer copy</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0">
<!-- ImageReady Slices (2007 page 2 layer copy.tif) -->
<img src="images/2007-page-2-layer-copy.gif" width="1024"
height="1502" alt="">
<!-- End ImageReady Slices -->
</body>
</html>

If that is not what you need, please tell me how to get there and I'll
send whatever I can find. Thanks for your help,
and thanks to everyone else for your suggestions as well!

Rudy

Aaah.
I see the problem now.
Your page consists of one large image file.
It's not been constructed using markup code.
Making a website from a single image file has lots of drawbacks. It's slow
to load, awkward to update, search engines can't see it, it will never scale
correctly among hundreds of others. That last one appears to be the problem
you've just encountered.
Can I just ask how big the file "2007-page-2-layer-copy.gif" is in
kilobytes?

This is exactly why I suggested using a wysiwyg html editor. Even if it's
only a free one that you download from a freeware site. It will still
produce proper markup code, free from all the above mentioned problems.

Your problem lies in this line
<img src="images/2007-page-2-layer-copy.gif" width="1024" height="1502"
alt="">

See, you've specified a fixed width of 1024 pixels and a fixed height of
1502 pixels.
That means the image will display at this size nomatter what resolution the
users monitor is set to.
For some people, this will result in an image that's too small for their
screen.
Some will get an image that's too big, and they'll have to keep scrolling
their screen from side to side in order to read everything.
And a very small percentage of your visitors will find the image fits their
screen nicely - but I do mean a VERY small percentage.

You could replace width="1024" height="1502"
with width="100%" height="100%"
That way the image will re-scale itself to fit all screen sizes, but you
will get a lot of distortion and some pixelisation on more or less
everyone's browser who views it.

But really, the only way to fix these problems is to re-build your site with
proper HTML. Whether you do that with raw coding, or with a freeware website
editing programme, it doesn't matter.
But one things for sure, if you keep the site in the form you currently have
it, you'll be forever haunted with problems.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you try to force the wrong tool
to do a job it was never designed to do.

I know you don't want to rebuild the site, and I appreciate that.
Like most of us, you have more important things to be doing with your time
than building and rebuilding a website.
But I'm afraid if you want to resolve the problems you've described here,
that's the only way you're going to be able to do it.
Sorry I couldn't offer you a more helpfull or easier solution.

Regards,
Sam.


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