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Thanks for looking... I am about 80% done, would love to know what you guys think. Thanks. www.baptistdesigned.com

Hi the site looks really good with a professional feel about it. The only problem is that you are building it from the centre of your screen with also your page properties set at 1400px & this will give a lot of side scroll to many of us viewing. With your site on my monitor i see as far as the letter n in the heading website & graphic design studio & have to scroll after this.

Yes as Chris said you have built from the centre of BV. Build everything from the left and go to page properties to tick the 'centre in browser' check box. My monitor at home is wide so it looks great, but viewing it from my 'small' work monitor requires me to scroll sideways.

All the best

Darren

Originally Posted by DarrenC

Yes as Chris said you have built from the centre of BV. Build everything from the left and go to page properties to tick the 'centre in browser' check box. My monitor at home is wide so it looks great, but viewing it from my 'small' work monitor requires me to scroll sideways.

All the best

Darren

Darren, this is such a precious information you gave us all.
Thank you !

Chris has already made me noticing my website pages weren't centered.
I of course agreed with him, but I thought it would be difficult,
and let it for when I would have time for it.

In fact, it's that simple !
And I did it in something like three minuts.

Thanks to both of you, Chris and Darren.

And thank you VH, for making BV so simple to use.

Nice website, baptistdesigned !

Thanks for the advise, do i have to move everything individually on every link to the left, or can I group everything and move it somehow? I see what you are saying and I want to do this. Thanks again. :)

Ok i tried to move everything to the left in BV and then centered it in page properties, but when I go to publish my index page everything is located to the left and not centered. Some help here please, thanks guys.

Yes the index page is 'left' now. Try unchecking, then publish and then check it again, then republish. Remember to refresh your browser (F5)

If proplem persists (which I've known to happen)

Open a new blank page and set the page properties height width and centre in browser.

Now go to your index page and make sure everything is built from the left which you say it is

click edit> select all
Then edit> copy

Go to new page

click edit> paste

Everything will drop in the exact same place.

Rename this page index and delete the other one.

Then publish and test

Darren

Thanks darren will do... :)

tell me what you think now, is the index page lining up? thanks

No... however it has moved over to the right just a little

OK Check this

1) Make sure the page width is no wider than it needs to be

2) Click on every element and check that the blue handles are within the width of the page.

Republish and test


Darren

The header image is the main culprit at 1211px wide. This also needs to be reduced to 985'ish.

I have made a new page with everything moved to the left and centered in page properties. I have also shortened the header. I still have the same problem. My desktop by the way has a 22" screen and I use a laptop with a 15" wide screen to check in another view. Still no change. Any thoughts?

try just making the page width in blue voda a little smaller. how to do this is there is a slider on a ruler near the top of blue voda. slide that to the left to make the page smaller then fit the content of yoru page into that. play with it a little in the preview then when you have it then publish it. do this with all the pages.

SSSSSSSSWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAT!!!! I got it... I think! Check it my friends!, Thanks for all the help! :) These forums are the BEST!!!!

looks better, but I am still getting a tiny bit of side scroll in my browser. just try making it a little smaller.

Looks perfectly centred now (on my wide screen)

Darren

Originally Posted by DarrenC

Looks perfectly centred now(on my wide screen)
Darren

Same here !

(A 24" monitor is waaayyy cool.)

I checked it on my 15" widescreen and 22" widescreen, both look centered. Thanks guys for the help! :)

Sorry to say that its still not being built correctly, but looks a lot better.
Your image is at 1028px wide & the page will never be smaller than this, & your page is being started at 91px from the edge of your BV screen. So if your aiming for a page at 985 wide you have already exceeded this by 134px & giving side scroll to most common monitor settings. Remember that also the screen size is not as important in comparison to what resolution the screens are set to.

id="Image1" alt="" align="top" border="0" style="width:1028px;height:291px;"></div>
<div id="bv_Image2" style="overflow:hidden;position:absolute;left:91px;top:309px;z-index:1" align="left">

lost me man! sorry but thanks

Just to add my observation:

I have a 30cm screen and all pages are totally centred....but there is a little side-scroll on all pages. However, it's so minimal that I don't need to scroll to read the pages, so if it were me......I'd just leave it as is LOL

(With time & a lot of patience you could get it all just so :) )
david

Originally Posted by baptistdesigned

lost me man! sorry but thanks

No problem! This might help.

Good luck.

Very professional looking site. Only one comment though - you've got lots of very informative descriptions about your "Pro-packs" but no mention of price. However, when a person fills out your Quote form you ask that person how much they want to spend. If there was some comparison i.e $1000-1500 will get you the Pro-Advanced 2 then you will have pre-qualified your customer a little bit better. Rather than tire-kickers you'll know that this person has already decided that that package is within their budget and has roughly the services they require.