Hi
I'm usifn Dreamweaver 8 to create a website and in some computers my backgound table looks perfect it extends to the whole screen but in some it just stays to one side. I tried extending the table to cover that part and it look good in the screen I had the shorter table but I previewed it in the computer that it looked normal and it was extended and it look horrible.
please help
Thank you,
ipcpr

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']I'm using Dreamweaver 8 to create a website and in some computers my background table looks perfect it extends to the whole screen but in some it just stays to one side. I tried extending the table to cover that part and it look good in the screen I had the shorter table but I previewed it in the computer that it looked normal and it was extended and it look horrible.[/font]
[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Here is the page I'm having problems with http://www.smartfin.org/authorizedagencies.html
this page in my screen it looks good, but when I view it on a screen that is taller than my screen the tables on the side look odd, they don't extend all the way to the side of the screen, I gues what I want to say is How can I make my site fit all types of screen to extend when necessary?
Thanks[/font]

There's no way for us to know what's going on w/o seeing the page or the code. You'd be better off learning to create layouts without tables anyway, using CSS.

Thank you

Here is the page I'm having problems with http://www.smartfin.org/authorizedagencies.html
this page in my screen it looks good, but when I view it on a screen that is taller than my screen the tables on the side look odd, they don't extend all the way to the side of the screen, I gues what I want to say is How can I make my site fit all types of screen to extend when necessary?
Thanks
ipcpr

Instead of using fixed width numbers, use percentages.

width=100% or whatever percentage of the screen you want it to fill.

That way it will stay all the way no matter what size monitor.

And it won't scroll over the right edge on smaller monitors like it does right now.

even then, if your page is viewed, for example, on an original imac, from practically a decade ago, on something like netscape navigator, the tables may all go bananas anyway. just to cheer you up, when you thought there was no end to the chaos of 'portability'. there's an 80s word oddly thrust into a 21st century forum thread for you. i hate non-portability.

here's one for you

http://195.167.185.189


the cool bit where the words disappear into the thingy - i had to move it a few millimetres (god i'm so geeky, i can't even stick to the units provided by the software) along and a few on the vertical (i forget which way) so that instead of being 100% perfect on a mac it is 100% perfect on a pc

you see, there's even times when you can't actually make your page universal. you just can't. there are times. often it's not a problem. but this is by no means a tightly-sealed universe, this construct we call "the web"

of course there is a solution - particularly since i'm running things such that the server chooses its direction based on the domain called... i can get it, at the time it checks what the domain is, to also check if it's a mac or not - if it's not a mac (i hope linux manages to model itself on windows properly! right now i have no way to test anything on a linux gui) i can write those parts of the html differently. there's a million ways to do it. but the point is that the html IS different. portability can't always be 100%