How Do I make my website I make in Dreamweaver to fit almost every screen size?

Question

I am making a site soon, and I want to how to make it fill up the entire screen instead of it just centered. Thanks

Answer 1

A web page does that by default.

As long as you don't use tables (because that's not what they're for), you can do a lot of things, and have your contents fill a screen...

... but keep in mind that people with widescreen monitors may end up looking like they're watching a game of tennis when they read a page that fills the screen. Find a compromise between what's feasible and what's readable. At the least, set a max-width for your page, so that on really wide or big monitors your page will remain static at some point.

EDIT

"Coding for resolution" is prone to failure, for the simple reason that people can have turned of JavaScript... or have more than one monitor (which isn't as rare as it used to be)

A web page should *never* rely on any type of scripting for display - except for enhancement of layouts, with the knowledge that the desired effect simply may not be achieved.

Answer 2

Actually, you can't. What developers do is have code to recognize the screen res of the viewer, and then redirect to a version of the site that is optimized for that res.

An alternative is to set your graphics for the most popular res, center the site, and then have some kind of bg, like plain black, to fill the space for ppl with larger screen resolutions.

Another option, of course, is flash instead of html.