I'm trying to make a responsive photography website but I'm having trouble getting it the way I want it. I'm using Dreamweaver and have created responsive images that look great on my screen. I've specified that one image must float left and the other float right, so that they fit nicely beside each other. However, when I make the screen smaller, the images fold under each other. What I actually want is for them to shrink together, maintaining the same layout. What is the best way to establish this?
You need to play with the image size, I advise you to read about media querys for responsive web design, with that you can choose the different size according the screen size in different devices
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I am currently formatting my Django web application using Twitter Bootstrap, but things start getting weird when I resize the browser.
Ideally, I would like to keep the same format regardless of browser size, and if they go too small, than just a horizontal scroll is introduced:
If the screen resolution is 1024x768, I want the site to look good (using the full width of the screen, no warping or adjustments of image files, no horizontal scroll). If the display is wider than 1024px, there are blank space on either size. If narrower than 1024px, a horizontal scroll is introduced.
I was wondering what the best way to go about this is. Is there a way with Twitter Bootstrap? I was also thinking of putting everything into a border-less table with defined widths and centering the table on the screen? Hoping then things inside the table wouldn't resize down.
I'm using bootstrap for a personal website, and I'm having trouble with a Javascript slideshow.
Basically, when the browser window gets smaller, instead of the slideshow DIV content shrinking proportionally and maintaining the sizes of the content, it is cutting off the edges of the content.
The text isnt breaking to another line when I resize the browser it just covers up the content. I'm sure this is very simple but I just cant work it out, would be very appreciated if someone could take a look, here is the link to the website you can see for yourself.
http://www.luke-taaffe.com
I see some issues with your HTML. Layout you have created is not required and you'll keep running into issues as you move forward with it.
Hence i would suggest to fix it now itself.
As you want to use bootstrap, get more idea about their responsive design elements : Tutorial / Bootstrap Responsive Grid System
Then choose a theme among these
It will automatically take care of you design's responsiveness.
Ok I fixed the issue, I spent about an hour looking at the media queries in bootstrap-responsive.css.
First I had to use navbar-right in my header and remove all of the margin, padding I had previously used to position the links.
This was stopping the links this maintained the links to the right of the window without covering them when I resized.
Then the navbar was breaking onto 2 lines, so I had to change the media queries.
I'm having a problem with a website I've built: whenever I view the site on a smaller monitor or when I resize the browser window, the content gets covered by the other divs. I need the content to be fully visible, no matter what size the browser is.
http://sophisticateddesign.nl/cfreport/overons.html
Also, on the homepage the text gets cut off a little bit on the bottom row when I resize the browser. I need this row to increase in height a bit, which apparently can't be achieved by simply increasing the divs' height.
http://sophisticateddesign.nl/cfreport/index.html
You should take a look at responsive web design. By using a fluid grid together with one or many media queries you can achieve what you're asking for.
Here's a good introduction if you'd like to get started. I can also highly recommend Ethan Marcotte's book about the subject!
The simplest way is not to define widths in pixels but using only width in %. You defined for example width: 960px; for <html> so if the browser window is less than 960px the whole content of this site won't be visible. You also defined the footer width and probably some more elements.
But the true is nowadays you should learn rather Responsive Web Design to create your page adjusting to device width. Many sites are being used by people on PC, laptops, tablets and mobile phones and you cannot create complex site to look nice on all those devices without using responsive design techniques.
I need to put together website for mobile devices, so iPhones and various androids. The problem is I struggle with getting viewport right and other settings. My goal is so webpage would be coded for specific width e.g. 640px wide. Then once open device would zoom it in/out to the width of the screen so everything became larger or smaller same like after zoomig in/out via pinching on the device screen.
So I would like to develop it for lets say 640px width and depending on device it would scale up or down once open. So if device screen would be 960px wide it would automatically scale to this width via viewport somehow. Is this possible at all to have it coded for predefined width in css and have zoomed in/out as needed by device itself?
I apologize if the question is too generic, will explain details if needed.
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So the most common approach if I understand correctly is to provide few layout versions for most commons screen sizes? Using media queries in css provide different values for widths, fonts sizes etc is that right?
If I decide however to go with percentages rather than media queries, given the design provided I think still would have a problem with resizing fonts as layout has images with text in it and text needs to be proportional to the image. Also percentages would take care of widths, height might be an issue though as the images would have to be resized vertically too. Some parts of the design would need to "fit" each other it seems and it would become problem I think.
Now if I simply build a website of certain width, lets say 640px I should be able to position everything on the screen with pixels, no diffeent from normal non-mobile website.
So I tried to set <meta name="viewport" content="width=640"> and inside of a page set width of widest container in css to 640px making page width 640px basically. If I understand correctly it will set up viewport to exact width of the page. So the page would be build as any other non-mobile webpage. User will have to adjust scale by pinching as when the page opens it is usually zoomed in/out for some reason. Is my understanding of what is happening here correct or is there some problem with it. Having it predefined size takes care of different mobile screen sizes as viewport is always same, fits into page width and only scale seems the problem, that is unless I'm missing something here.
I also should have mentioned that I need to do only portrait and make it only option, so no landscape view (that will be another question).
Would love to know your thoughts and I appreciate all the answers so far.
This is called Responsive Web Design when a website adjusts according to screen size...
You can make this kind of responsive website easily through CSS3 Media Queries:
How to write CSS Media Queries for common types of devices
Responsive Web Design: What It is and How to Use It
If you google for Responsive Web Design you will find lots more information on this topic. It's really an amazing method to make your website look great on all devices from small to large screens.
We have a series of tutorials on creating web pages using responsive web design. If you want a quick introduction to it checkout Introduction: Creating a Responsive Web Design, it lists common mobile phone and tablet sizes, so it might lead you to the answer you need. You can find the link to our tutorial series in the article. The solutions provided use Bootstrap in order to provide easy to create pages. And it also provides free samples of responsive web design pages.
I hope this helps to provide the answer that you need, if not, then please let us know if we can provide any further assistance.
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Specify the width in percentage say width=100%,which automatically adjusts the width with the screen.
I like to use a lot of unique graphics on my pages, which often results in making different page sizes depending on available screen width/height.
Here are two examples:
http://www.uvm.edu/~areid/homesite/ - the image floats at the bottom of my screen but on a larger browser, the image floats near the middle making it look off. It looks best when the bottom of the window aligns with the bottom of the image
www.stevenlebel.com - it loads two different pages depending on what monitor size is detected.
This seems like a lot of redundant coding. My question is, how can I make sliced/Photoshop images transition well to different screen sizes. Does Photoshop allow you to make DIVS instead of tables?
Can i make each of the slices created by Photoshop grow/shrink when the browser window size changes?
If anyone has any input on creating websites like this I would be very interested to hear what they have to say.
Thanks
Katie
Using a combination of media queries with properly selected breakpoints, sprites or individual images, and even a library like foresight.js you can achieve the results you're looking for.
The media queries will allow you to set up your site for different screen groups with breakpoints set to cover most tablets, phones, etc. You could then load a different image version from a sprite or a separate image entirely. Finally, foresight.js will look at screen resolution and available bandwidth to load higher resolution images for retina browsers if so desired.
set the page size as
.page
{
width:100%
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
Take a tour on mediaqueri.es and find out how others have solved your problem and don't forget dribbble also. I think you know about web designing for PCs, others are smart phones, tablets and TVs. Get some basic understanding of the user interfaces of apps on mobile OSes. Read the Android Design, App Design Strategies for iOS and Designing UX for apps for Windows 8. After that I think you'll have a proper design to solve your question. Then learn about css3 media queries, start coding with html5boilerplate and start from the mobile design. Good luck!