Where can I find information about web hosting and different screen ratios?

Question

I'm helping someone with their website content and I'm pretty new to the whole thing.

One thing that is causing us difficulty is that the website does not seem to dynamically resize when viewed on different ratio monitors.

So what looks normal on an old 4:3 monitor looks anemic on a wide screen monitor.

Now I've seen a lot of websites that address this problem very well and look just fine on any monitor.

I'd like to educate myself a bit more as to what is required before taking the issue to the web host manager. I'm not really sure what is involved, so I have absolutely no idea where to start.

I have negligible experience working with HTML, but I have some experience working in C with non-broswer-related programming, so feel free to be as technical as you like.

Answer 1

You need to learn HTML and CSS.



This is a good place to start with CSS

http://sixrevisions.com/css/20_websites_learn_master_css/

Answer 2

Hi,

This is a well known problem and is usually got around by the HTML code, ( or any code ), using percentages instead of pixels. so, for instance, if I refer somewhere in my code a screen co-ordinate of say, 400px to the right, ( from the left edge of the screen ), this might be in a different place on diffrenet screen sizes. So its best to use percentages such as 50% ( x co-ord ) by 50% ( y co-ord ) would put me in the center of the screen no matter the size/dimensions as the graphics card/bios will interpretet correctly.

That is the usual 'get around'. In fact, these days, I always use percentages.



Hope this helps.



Regards.

Answer 3

You need to start looking into CSS or start using the http headers of the client to serve them websites based on how big their screen is. The percent attributes can be your worst enemy or your best friend...