[WEB4LIB] E: Sort of an easy question - how to write a page that fits at

[Thomas Dowling]

> >
>  One thing you could try, would be to make the table 600 pixels wide.
> That way it would account for the scroll bars and anything else that
> would use up the other 40 pixels.  This would create a table that only
> fills up 1/2 of the width of your screen, but I think that most people
> would not have a problem with that.
>

I can't answer for most people, but there are times when I give my eyes a
break, zoom up my text size, and use a window about 1200px wide.  I get
more than a little ticked off at sites with 600px tables that fit about
five words into each line of text while leaving three inches of white
space on the right side of my monitor.

I tell ya, it isn't PDAs that are going to kill pixel-based screen design.
It will be 21" 1600x1200 monitors hitting the $600US price point.  That
will nicely do in any GIFs of words in the Right Fonts standing in for
real headers, too.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu