What should i do?

Hi everyone,

I use tables on my site, but if i were to see the site in different screen dimensions, tables gets messed up. For example, if i were to see the site on 800 X 600, left column gets all mixed in, if i were to see it on 1024 X 768 then it looks alright.

How can i make it all constant? It is really frustrating...
my site is: http://www.thedesi.com.

Any feedback about the site will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Tejas Shah
www.thedesi.com

hey tejas,

I suggest to stop using % values at the *width* tags in your table tags. Just replace the % with the amount of pixels.

Your first table has a width of 950 px. So in 800*600 your table is wider then the screen and that why there is horizontal scrolling.

Looks better now, tejas. Only keep in mind that when you use pixel widths, you have to keep it as small as possible. Things have to look good in all screen resolutions. Try testing your site in screen resolutions from 800x600 till 1280x1024+. Although 1024 x 768 is far out the most used resolution right now, 800x600 is still used by around 5% of the internet users, that's 5% of your visitors, 5% will not see your tables on the right when they take their first look on your site.

doing "fluid" design takes some work, but it is much better IMHO, pros use fluid design. You just have to work at a bit more and KNOW your HTML.

:-D

True. But with the site from trejas fluid design is not possible, the site looked messed up. If he like to use fluid design he have to rebuild his whole site.

Which is why fluid design is much better. Statistics on screen resolution are questionable at best, and in reality are irrelevant, because you have no way of knowing whether your visitor has their screen maximised or not.

This means that your 5% that won't see the right column will be much more (especially as you forgot 640x480 resolutions). So fluid design is by far the best option.

Yes, that will require a site redesign. Ultimately it is up to Tejas whether it is worth redesigning the site or not. Tejas, if you are going to redesign the site, I would recommend that at the same time you get rid of the tables used for layout and use CSS instead.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
is a good place to start.

HTH