How to stretch a site on any screen, anyone?

[1 angel undercover]

How can I stretch the site I am developing on any screen?
When I made it at a 1024 x 790 screen, the center would not be the same on a bigger screen :dunno: help :dunno:

 

[javajenius]

I dont know if this is the right section of the forum for this question:

Try searching for "Fluid Layout" on google.

Here are the first two links:
http://css-tricks.com/the-perfect-fluid-width-layout/
http://24ways.org/2006/intricate-fluid-layouts

 

[eod696]

percentages. Thats at least where you should start, by making the width of every div and table in your website a percentage. Experiment with that and you'll find a way im sure, but the links javajenius gave are sure to help.

 

[sunils]

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[1 angel undercover]

Hi, I appreciate your replies guys, apparently, I forgot to include that I am not quite familiar on codes, I'm using Dreamweaver. Can you help me still? Thank you so much. However, if i really have to do that on the code view of Dreamweaver, I'll do my best to comply with the steps you included on your link. Thank you so much again!

 

[DS Gamers]

Dreamweaver can be very useful if you are new to using HTML but in the long term it isn't as useful as CSS and "<div>" tags. If your site is written in tables then I don't think Dreamweaver lets you put in percentages. Instead you could browse through the code and just look for numbers like "14px" and change them to a percentage that is close to what you want. Also a very handy tool for editing code without changing the file is the FireBug plugin for Firefox.

 

[hamsn]

you have to add fluid layouts for this, but it must match accordingly with your design

i think its done with css
am i rite others?

 

[oscetips]

if its tables you can use <table align="center"> otherwise a nifty way with divs is to use <div style="margin:0px auto;"> ...... the auto tells the div to make sure it has equal space on each side of it

 

[Smith6612]

One thing about stretching or shrinking sites, I suggest to leave pictures/images at their original resolution and not change their size unless you re-sample the image. Otherwise, it just doesn't look right.

 

[themasterrocker]

Yeah there is a way to do this. In fact i've done it as well on my site until i put a theme on the page, You have to div alot and it's on a website, try looking at my forum in further pages. (i don't think it got closed)

 

[jasgor9]

do it in css:

body {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}

 

[themasterrocker]

do it in css:

body {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}

Yeah, i tried that way, when my thread was open.... It didn't work. I had to search websites after websites and i finally got it, thing is my thread is shut now so i can't refere to it because i can't find it, but i was using a picture i had made, so it differs if he/she is using a picture on the server or not.