Heres my page (http://www.geocities.com/tugowar37/index.html). It appears fine on my monitor, of course it would because I put it together on my monitor. :crazy:

But how do I make it so that it fits correctly (no horizontal scrolling) on monitors using smaller resolution than I run?
My resoltion is 1280 x 1024. GF's resolution is smaller so she has to scroll to see the whole page.

any help is appreciated very much, thanks

Get rid of the yahoo crap on the side.:lol:

You need to build the web page to fit a smaller screen size. I am not sure if you get that option with Yahoo. I specifically made mine to fit an 800x600 monitor view.

Thanks, I guess I could just change my res while I work on the page. But then when viewed on a larger res you'd have a whole lot of empty page. :shrug:

I am not an expert in web pages for sure. just omething I dabble in now and then. I normally was told to make them 800x600 so all could view it easy. with the digital monitors and large screen sizes, I'm sure the recommend is probably around 1024 x768.

I was told it was better to have empty space around the screen and have more folks be able to view it without the slide bars.

There are two ways you can assign width to your page : "relative widths" and "fixed widths".

A "relative width" uses a percentage to dictate how wide your page is. Example: width="%90". This tells the web browser that it should stretch the page to fit 90% of the viewable space available to the browser.

A "fixed width" uses a static number to tell the web browser how many pixels of width to display. So, if you specifically define 'width="1024"', the web browser is going to display at 1024 pixels wide, which will introduce a scrollbar at any display resolution smaller than that.

The easiest way to generate a page so that it will match any browser size is actually really simple: Use relative widths ALWAYS. There are some times when relative widths will not show up correctly, which you will learn :D

For more information on relative width vs fixed width, see this and it might make more sense:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/fixedvsrelative.shtml or http://webdevelopment.developersnetwork.com/Articles.asp?Article=114

More related links for your learning:
http://www.ironspider.ca/tables/tablecells3.htm

I can provide more info to you should you need it. If you're learning HTML and you want a really, really easy to read book which will leave you walking out a master, pick up a copy of O'reilly's "HTML: The definitive Guide". Here's a link:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html3/

Amazon has a ton of copies. You should be able to get one shipped cheap, or find one at any local bookstore. I loaned out my copy and never got it back :D