Screen Size/Resolution

[Jimi King]

In my experience (and indeed my stats would confirm that) whilst there are still some people out there using 800 x 600, the majority favour 1024 x 768 or above.

However, as Bill mentions, those using a screen 1024 wide will be unlikely to have 1024 pixels at their disposal. I tend to aim for 850 x 900 wide on most things I've done lately. I think that most people will survive that without a horizontal scrollbar.

[pjiv]

Yes this is an old post, but I still wanted to comment on this. Since most people do have larger monitors, why do we have templates for Xara Web Disgner that are only 800X600, has anyone made any bigger templates?

[bjornkn]

AFAIK 960px wide is very widely used as a kind of standard resolution that works (almost) everywhere. I think it is a good size, even on my 1920px screen, as I never fill the width of it with the browser..

[pjiv]

Yes, changing the width is very easy, I was referrning to the height of the page. The way Web Designer the footer is part of the page, would have been nice to have the main part a iframe or some other where scroll bars would go on it. Now if you put too much on a page it goes off the bottom with no way to get at it. I started with a template I liked but now I have a 10 page site, and I find 600 pixels too small. I guess I have to edit 10 pages and make them longer is all.

[Boy]

You don't have to edit all pages individually to adjust the page size. Go to Utilities/Options/Page Size. In the "Paper" section adjust the height and make sure that you check "All pages in document the same" at the bottom. Click "Apply". Now all pages have the new size.

The footer of the web page is most likely a 'repeating object' so if (on any page) you move it to the bottom of the page you can have the move duplicated on all pages by selecting Arrange/Update repeating objects.

[pjiv]

Worked like a champ. Had to strech the background on each page but still saved a lot of work. Hey why don't I just softgroup the page background and the footer together and then set that object as a repeating one, that way changing the size is very simple! Thanks a million!