Frames - 800x600 and 1024x768 4

[JennyW]

Hiee,

Ok, I have another problem.
I've made a webpage with frames.
When I view my page in 1024x768 resolution everything looks ok.
But when I view my page in 800x600 resolution everything gets squished. On the 800x600 resolution only parts of the frames are shown. It's like it can't fit or something.

Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks,
Jenny

 

[JennyW]

Here's my url...

http://members.home.net/pie3.14/

Try viewing it in 1024x768 resolution, then see what happens with 800x600 resolution.

Thanks again.

 

[TulsaJeff]

Hi Jenny...Are you a mathematician? (referring to pie3.14)

Just kidding...I love math actually.

As far as your web problem...I have 1024 x 768 resolution right now. I will change my resolution later and see what it looks like. Will probably be later tonight before I get to it. Ya' Gotta Love It!X-)

 

[JennyW]

Ok great! Looking forward to your input!
And no, I'm pretty poor at math. Besides, can't you tell? I spelled "pie" wrong. It should be "pi."

 

[TulsaJeff]

Jenny... It doesn't really looked scrunched to me.... It looks like your main frame is somehow overriding the width of your left frame. Do you have a percent set on your main frame? How about the left frame? It probably needs to be. It looks like you have the width of the main frame hard keyed in say about 700 pixels or so...I am just taking a wild guess... regardless... select the frames in dreamweaver and see what the row or column values are for each. Let me know. Ya' Gotta Love It!X-)

 

[JennyW]

Hey Jeff,
I'll give that a check and try to let you know. Thanks.

 

[funkymonk]

Hi,

Best thing to do is set your left frame, the one with the navigation graphic, to pixels. make this about the same or a little more than the navigation graphic. Set your main content area to percentage, I'd say 100% so this area will allways be dynamic. Hope this helps

 

[kjonnnnn]

Some of your links in the side frame are opening up in that frame (the side one) and not in the main window.

If you want more people to view your site easily, I think (its just me) you should design it for 600x800. More people at that resolution.

Set your frames for pixels and not percent and they wont move. Even better use a table instead of frames. I started my website with frames then changed to tables. It seems to load faster. (

http://www.PraiseTempleChurch.org.)

 

[JennyW]

Hiieeee,
I still gotta figure out how to make the frame to pixels. I'll figure it out.

I'll look in to the tables thing KJonnnnn.

Roda,
You wrote...

Set your main content area to percentage, I'd say 100% so this area will allways be dynamic.

What does "dynamic" mean?

Thanks for your added help Roda and KJonnnnn.

 

[TECHMAN007]

Dynamic means that when you resize your screen or have different resolution settings the browser content will resize and fit accordingly.

If you haven't found out how to make the one frame static and the other dynamic here is a code snippet:
__________________________________________________
<frameset cols=&quot;194,100%&quot; frameborder=&quot;NO&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; framespacing=&quot;0&quot; rows=&quot;*&quot;>
<frame name=&quot;leftFrame&quot; scrolling=&quot;NO&quot; noresize src=&quot;blank.htm&quot;>
<frame name=&quot;mainFrame&quot; src=&quot;blank2.htm&quot;>
</frameset>
____________________________________________________


This would leave your <<<-- Left Column static (thus it doesn't resize when you change your browser display size) and it would leave your -->>> Right Column dynamic. This should take care of the problem you are having =)!

 

[TulsaJeff]

Just click on the frame borders and set the percentage and or pixel size in the properties panel. I beleive the entry boxes are &quot;col&quot; and &quot;row&quot;.
in &quot;col&quot; Just type in 194 px for pixels (or whatever number you need)and 100% for the percentage.

&quot;row&quot; can be left as is. It would be used if you were setting the heigth of a top frame or bottom frame. Ya' Gotta Love It!X-)

 

[JennyW]

I'll give that a try guys!
Thanks so much!

Jenny

 

[JennyW]

I'll give that a try guys!
Thanks so much! I'll let you know what happens.

Jenny

 

[JennyW]

Wait, I have another question…
Is it possible to make a page “dynamic” if you don’t have frames on a page?

What is a page called when it’s not “dynamic”?

Thanks,
Jenny

 

[TulsaJeff]

Well when you create a table...you can set it as 100% width and it will stretch to the size of the users browser. That would be considered Dynamic.

I suppose just putting text and graphics on a page and not inside tables or frames would be non-dynamic. Pretty static.

Tables can have a hard pixel setting though just like frames and they will not be dynamic at all. Ya' Gotta Love It!X-)

 

[TECHMAN007]

Jenny,

&quot;Is it possible to make a page “dynamic” if you don’t have frames on a page?&quot;

Yes, webpages by default should be dynamic at least it the 4.x + Browsers. Also you can use tables which can be dynamic as Tulsa indicated.

&quot;What is a page called when it’s not “dynamic”?&quot;

Static

B-)

 

[JennyW]

You guys are quick!
Thanks again. Maybe I'll use Lables for my webpage. I've been using Layers.

Would there be any drawbacks to putting Layers over my Tables? Does it make any sense to do that?

I had a lot of problems when I used Layers. I had to make sure my page fit exactly on the 800x600 resolution (because I didn't want side scrolling). But since I made sure it exactly fit the 800x600 the 1024x768 resolution suffered and I had a blank space to the left of my webpage.

 

[JennyW]

I wrote...
&quot;Maybe I'll use Lables for my webpage&quot;
I meant Tables, not Lables.