Website screen display is different on some PCs compared to others ....

[IINeedHelp]

I designed my website on EasySiteWizard Pro and, although this is a 'clunky' builder, was delighted with the results, on the 'design' screen, the preview, then on the live site once it was published.

Unfortunately, I have had feedback from some people visiting the site that in order to see the right hand side of the screen, they must scroll across.  Others visiting the site have no such problems, and like me, can see the full width of the screen, indeed, with space to spare at the right hand side.

I designed my site on a laptop with a resolution set to 1280 x 80 and 32 bit colour quality, with the aspect ratio set to Full Screen [No Border].

Given that potential customers will be viewing my site on computers with any number of resolutions depending on the age of their PCs, is there something simple, (or even at this stage, not so simple), that I can do to ensure all people viewing my site can view the whole screen?  (I can't bring myself to contemplate a wholesale re-design of the site from scratch, and in any case, if I did, I'd be working somewhat in the dark since even though I have some screen shots showing what some others can see, it all looks perfect on my screen now)!

[dave]

The problem is that you have optimised the site for your own monitor, ans as you have found out people use different sized monitors.

Bear in mind that some people are still using smaller screen sizes like 15" and not widescreen. You can try making your site less wide by moving some of the content over to the left a bit.

The best advice I can really give is to test the site on as many different monitor sizes as you can.

[IINeedHelp]

Thanks for the reply and advice.

Moving everything over to the left a bit will mean altering the master as everything is currently arranged so that there is a balanced display on the screen (for those who can see the full screen).  Changing the master is not difficult, of course, but once re-saved, it does seem to have an effect on all apostrophes on every page of my site - changing the master replaces all appostrophes with some gobbledegook which then has to be checked and replaced and I just can't consider going through all that again!

In any case, though, surely by moving everything to the left on my screen, all I'll be doing is making the site look odd for those viewing it on wide screen or more recent higher resolution PCs, so leaving a sizeable proportion of people unable to see the full screen without there being a wide margin on the right?

[dave]

THis is correct. You will never get the site looking identical for everybody, just due to the amount of different screen sizes and resolutions out there.

Even this BT Forum has a large gap on the right for me, but for other people with smaller screens it is probable not present.

What you should try to do is make it so that as many people as possible can see it without haveing to scroll.THis will mean that othes will have space on the right, however this will only occur if they run their browsers full screen. A lot of people with larger monitors won't run the browser full screen anyway.