Thread: A way to make the templates more fluid

My pet peeve is trying to design a site that is long enough and still looks right no matter what screen size or viewing setting. The templates dont expand with this. I havent tried designing it within a table, but not sure this would solve it either.

Karen

You can tweak any of the templates using Microsoft Paint. Enlarge the canvas and then copy the border of your template horizontally or vertical to the size you want. Save.

Hi Karen, not sure what excactly you mean. Can you please provide ore info ?

Bill,
Yes I know how to do all that with editors. But thats not what I mean.

Naval,

What I mean is the size of your page is absolute. Not fluid, So say I develop a site with Normal sized font, but someone else views it with say LARGE FONT, or they set their screen resolution larger or smaller. I end up with text over running the margins, or.. lots of empty space.

In dreamweaver I build with divisons or tables and they MOVE pretty much with the screen etc instead of remaining static. In bv, the page remains the size you set it. Length and width are absolute. Each page you develop has to be adjusted accordingly to the amount of info you wish to display.

Karen

Karen,
i believe css is the way to go. Have a look at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/category/C11/

Karen you may know I am playing around with an estate agency website at the moment. I had exactly the same problem as you. My solution was to stick everything in a single-celled table. This is what I have so far. (The table expands to match the search results)

http://www.lose-inches.info/propertymax/relocation.php

It may not be exactly what you are looking for but it may spark off a few thought trains.

Not sure the CSS link is going to give Karen what she wants, navaldesign. It looks to me like the effect will be a kind of 'feeeze pane' effect, when in fact she wants the length - and possibly width - of the page to be fluid according to user input.

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Originally Posted by AJ113

Not sure the CSS link is going to give Karen what she wants, navaldesign. It looks to me like the effect will be a kind of 'feeeze pane' effect, when in fact she wants the length - and possibly width - of the page to be fluid according to user input.

The css templates can do a lot of things, among them keep the right and left columns fixed, to whatever screen width, and also to whatever screen length. Just look at the templates in dynamic drive (they are not the only ones)

Naval,

I can design those all day long, and do the dreamweaver ones all day long.. what i wanted was a way to make bv do that with the shapes etc..

Karen