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I have an image that I have the 'potential' users click on. I want that page to open in a maximized window as the default...is there a way to do that?
Here's the page...
http://www.keenwebdesign.com/test/GLL/plans.html (click on End Unit - blue button).
Thanks for the help - in advance!
Lynn -
is there a way to do that?
as such, no. seeing as how other OSes besides window may not even support such an idea (or, say Opera, where all your windows are in one window) it's not IMHO the best idea to shoot for.
If you want to be super annoying, though, you can launch a window the full size of the user's screen resolution and position it to take up the full screen. I'd suggest against that idea too if at all possible. -
Here's the dilemma...
The user opens the website www.keenwebdesign.com/test/GLL/ then clicks on 'about us'. If they don't use maximed windows the formatting on the page has things 'overlapping' and creating a 'chopped up' look with gaps where the background doesn't flow...etc. I'm not sure how to resolve that issue.
L. -
My 2 cents: lose the absolutely positioned elements, either do stuff in floats or fake parts of it using background-images. They're what's causing (and, I have no doubt, will continue to cause more) problems.
If I maximize the page, for example (1280x800 on my laptop), then your logo in the middle at the top is over one of your navigation items and I wouldn't even know there was an "our partners" link at all. -
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CommentAuthoradjustafresh
- CommentTimeJun 13th 2006
Lynn,
I'm afraid you've inadvertently discovered one of the primary challenges of designing for the web. You cannot control how people want to view your content.
If it were up to me (and I was a tyrannical fascist), I'd pass a law saying all users of the Internet MUST use Firefox 1.5 at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The fact of the matter is people can use any browser they want at any screen resolution they want to view your website. Your job, as a web designer/developer, is to decide which browsers and screen resolutions your site will support (take the nature of your website and its potential visitors into account when making this decision) and then to build it to look good in the myriad of browser and screen resolution combinations you're supporting.
As you know, your test site does not currently work at a screen resolution below 1024 wide, and that's okay as long as you're comfortable excluding people with smaller (usually older) monitors from seeing your content. Keep in mind that around 30% of Internet users have their screen resolution set to 800x600.
You may not know that your website also breaks at a screen resolution wider than 1024. The width of my screen res. is 1280px; at that width the main navigation items shift and one link "Our Partners" becomes hidden.
I know that it can be frustrating, but remember that you can't make people conform to the way you want them to see your site. You have to make your website flexible enough to conform to them.
Good luck! -
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Good points! I'll have to go back and see how to do the 'floats' option. I don't want to do 'absolute's...
800x600 - I would have believed a larger percentage still using it...baby boomers and seniors being a larger population group. I thought that I designed it for 768 width...making it the 800 default size...I guess I didn't plan correctly.
L.
www.lynnkeen.com
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