I’d take an educated guess here and say that no, there isn’t Action-based way to shrink it all down. I think it’d be called Dynamic Page Scaling and I’m not too sure if anything like that exists.
I’d assume people built their sites either 800x600, but typically you see them 1000x # since most people, you’d figure by now, would have updated their computer monitors to be something around 1024x768. I know I design my sites at least 1000px wide and obviously the height would vary.
I did do a quick Google search and here are some suggestions:
Strategy One:
Let the page’s content flow into the space available to it. For container elements (table, div, p, frames, etc.) use percentage widths. For fonts, use relative sizes (large, medium, small, etc.) Sometimes, floating content, especially images, will help (style=“float:left;” for example). Don’t worry about things looking exactly the same at all resolutions.
Strategy Two:
Pick a resolution you think is the lowest target for your page. Confine and center everything to those dimensions. There will be alot of blank space left and right at higher resolutions but, if the page lends itself to this type of presentation it will look OK.
Strategy Three:
Wing it. Lay out the page at the prevailing resolution, currently 1024x768, in my opinion. View it in other resolutions, make adjustments so it at least looks OK at other resolutions without losing its essential appearance at the core resolution. You can combine absolute position with relative, fixed widths with percentage ones to achieve this effect on a case by case basis.
Others will have different opinions and there are probably other approaches I am not covering. The unifying principal in all three of these approaches is:
Don’t insist on the page looking exactly the same at all resolutions.
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